You heard about this. Woman 87 or so is dying. Heart attack. No Do Not Resuscitate Order was on File. She is laying there suffering and dying. The nurse calls 9-11. Dispatcher begs her to give CPR to save her perhaps. She dies. No charges. The nurse, an RN stood there and watched her suffer like she would watch a dying dog. If you listen to the 9-11 call it is without passion or compassion. WHY. Her reason? Policy. Policy that if she violated might cost her the job she has at the assisted living site. Here's the problems I have with this account and the story:
Are we at the point where policy trumps compassion?
Is a policy that requires only perfunctory action (calling 9-11) a policy YOU would put in place?
Can you watch a person die without some emotion?
Is that where we are as a culture?
I have said for a long time that our culture is the problem. This is a culture that values economics above humanity. Job vs compassion.
I think about those people from Germany who worked in the camps. They followed policy too. They watch people suffer and die too.. it was policy. Besides working there was economic stability. I have thought about how often a person who worked at the camps would go home to their families, eat supper, go to church on Sunday, play with their kids and then go back and keep the ovens stoked and the "showers" operating. Those were the policies. Nothing Hitler did was outside of that policy.
I have often said, that the value of human life as depreciated by abortion will eventually migrate to the whole population.
This is a case in point.
Hitler had the policy of eliminating the useless eaters. Old. In-firmed, Mentally Feeble, Gypsies then Jews. Are we on that same course. Is the demon of Molek loosed in November about to require the sacrifice of old people? Useless eaters. After all...it's policy. But you vote for this.. and now here it is.
Cops: No charges after California home's refusal to give CPR | masslive.com
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