Forgiveness?

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:42 pm

I can understand what these people did. I forgive them but I hope they can forgive themselves.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/text/p ... n_page_id=

Post by **JWR** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:51 pm

At this time I think this is tabloid journalism at it's worst.

This "report" has been an internet rumor just like the reports of canibalism that were proven untrue.

If true it would be very sad but till it's proven true I will take it with a grain of salt.

Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:52 pm

Hoax or not I just hope, if I'm ever in the position of those patients, that there are doctors around with the courage to do the same thing for me.

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:51 pm

Wow.... I did not know that happened.....

Ronin · Post by **Ronin** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:00 pm

... real or fake, it's still shocking.

hyelakingsfan · Post by **hyelakingsfan** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:30 pm

Wow, that really sucks. Its a hard thing to see patients like that and its a harder thing to have to end their lives...

blueheaven · Post by **blueheaven** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:16 pm

It is fake, and I'm surprised anyone would think otherwise. It was initially reported in the Daily Mirror, a tabloid scandal rag in the UK. Hence the reason it is only showing up on the Daily Mail, Internet Free Press, and Daily Mirror websites.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:29 pm

Yeah... first thing I do when I see something like this is look at the source. (Which, given that I'm a librarian, is something I'd better bloody well do, since that's like Rule #1 in the trade...) But it's not a source I recognize, and the typography of it is... suspicious. (Nobody publishes e-journals that look that plain anymore).

Additionally, I can't imagine any health care worker with a working brain would believe they could get away with such a thing. Autopsies WILL be done. That's the other reason I don't believe this article.

I'd be willing to bet that someone read the story about the authorities finding the 46 old people who died from overheating (if you're frail and ill, 106 degrees is not a happy place to be) and ran with it.

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Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:37 pm

I apologize for posting this.

klet · Post by **klet** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:28 am

It's all right, we forgive you.

*glances at title of post*

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:23 am

No need to apologize, it would certainly be worth a bit of righteous indignation (at the very least!!) if it was real!!

Just shows you care, that's all!

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:25 am

Baakay wrote:No need to apologize, it would certainly be worth a bit of righteous indignation (at the very least!!) if it was real!!

Just shows you care, that's all!

I totally agree with Baakay

I know you are sweeti, NSP (even though you are goof

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Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:20 am

Baakay wrote: Additionally, I can't imagine any health care worker with a working brain would believe they could get away with such a thing. Autopsies WILL be done. That's the other reason I don't believe this article.

This is an interesting point. ARE autopsies being done? They couldn't possibly autopsy everyone and a large majority of the bodies have been left lying in the street or houses for DAYS if not weeks.

Baakay wrote:I'd be willing to bet that someone read the story about the authorities finding the 46 old people who died from overheating (if you're frail and ill, 106 degrees is not a happy place to be) and ran with it.

Or the 30-something seniors left in a nursing home alone to drown when the staff ran off.

LOL, sorry for the OT moment

We love you NSP!

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:50 pm

Lynxa wrote:
Baakay wrote: Additionally, I can't imagine any health care worker with a working brain would believe they could get away with such a thing. Autopsies WILL be done. That's the other reason I don't believe this article.
This is an interesting point. ARE autopsies being done? They couldn't possibly autopsy everyone and a large majority of the bodies have been left lying in the street or houses for DAYS if not weeks.

Well, that's a good question, and I don't know for sure. I would assume, though, that anyone whose relative it was left behind would want to make darn sure that the death was from natural causes, and not some well-meaning but ill-advised action like the one in the original post.

I should know better than to assume squat