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Washington Post Promotes Death Counselling

August 15, 2009 (LPAC)—The death of former Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham has not lessened the commitment of the paper to fascist social policies. In its second editorial today, the Post comes to the defense of the pro-euthanasia policy called death counselling—and chortles that it even saves money!

After a hearty endorsement of the policy, already been incorporated into hospital practice in the United States, of getting young people to sign end-of-life directives, the Post gets to the point:

"The issue of end-of-life planning should never get mixed in with the issue of cost control in health care. Such planning is a virtue, as we said, in itself. Cost control is a virtue, too, but not to be achieved by persuading people to limit their end-of-life care. Tucking the measure in question into a bill that focuses substantially on controlling costs may have been a mistake...

"As it happens, there is evidence, though inconclusive, that advanced directives might save some costs. A study of 603 patients with advanced stages of cancer, published this year by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, found that the final week of health costs for those who had discussed end-of-life treatment with their doctors was 36 percent lower than for those who did not have such talks."

But that's not the most important finding, the Post concludes. People who didn't have those end-of-life discussions "had a worse 'quality of life' in the final week," and failing to push those discussions, "could have the effect of consigning more patients to unnecessarily uncomfortable deaths."


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