German government’s drug commissioner advocates restricting medical care for the elderly (www.wsws.org)
from NimdaQA@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 2025 22:39
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lemmylump@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 2025 22:47 next collapse

What an asshole.

crandlecan@mander.xyz on 11 Dec 2025 07:27 collapse

~~Title and text seem to contradict each other, no? ~~

fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Dec 2025 09:47 collapse

Nope, both are against giving meds to the elderly. What are you misunderstanding?

crandlecan@mander.xyz on 11 Dec 2025 09:56 collapse

Hmm, the way I read the text it was Hendrik doing the underlining by pointing out the inhumanity of it all… I guess what’s meant is that he is the example that underlines the inhumanity of it all. Okay :)

fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Dec 2025 09:58 collapse

I guess that could be misinterpreted, but yeah, that sentence means that he is putting special attention on those measures, and doubling down on it by proposing even harsher measures.

In a paragraph below you have it clearer:

Speaking to the right-wing broadcaster Welt TV, he raised the question of whether elderly people should still be prescribed expensive medication. He said there are “phases in life when certain medications should no longer be used.” He cited the example of a 100-year-old man suffering from cancer and asked, “Do we really want to use these expensive drugs” in such a case?

You see that he is clearly advocating pro those inhumane changes.

crandlecan@mander.xyz on 11 Dec 2025 10:25 collapse

As was the German way before… 😨😖

crandlecan@mander.xyz on 11 Dec 2025 10:26 collapse

And yes, read the fracking article next time will ya! 😁

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 11 Dec 2025 10:44 next collapse

This is one of the things that while it’s correct most people react very emotionally to the idea and for a politician it’s better never to talk about it. What they are talking about is very similar to euthanasia that is legal and accepted in many countries. If a patient has no chance of survival it doesn’t make much sense to spend a lot of money in prolonging his life for couple of days. What often happens is that people spend the last days so their lives in intensive care, in coma and on a ventilator. It just prolongs suffering as there is no chance for improvement. What he’s getting wrong is the solution. Instead of restricting care they should implement robust system of DNRs/life testaments. Everyone should decide what type of care they want to receive, doctors should be legally obligated to follow those directions and it should not be possible to override it by family members. A lot of people would still be against it because death is a very emotional topic but at least it doesn’t sound evil.

demonsword@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 2025 22:07 collapse

Euthanasia implies consent. Without consent, it’s murder.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 11 Dec 2025 23:10 collapse

Have you even read what I said?

Paragone@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 2025 08:51 collapse

& I’m advocating for the removing of the obscenely-rich pensions given to his ilk, as an equally-effective means of reducing economic “waste”.

Notice how they’ll butcher those below them, but not tolerate their-own wealth to be even-reduced…

Narcissism’s nature is indellible.

Carve it in G-D’s eye, sociopath, let the world see the “soul” you commit…

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