Is there any chance that this too will be outsourced to some third-world country, cause I think I can do this job better and at a fraction of the price.
I am going to start polishing my jackboots and practicing my Nazi salute. Just in case.
Someone mentioned to me at work that we have something called a “wristband printer” for short-term IDs for our patients. And I thought to myself, “If the Nazis had such technology, they could have run their death camps much more efficiently”.
Ok, so I’m a little strange.
Oh sure, first a damn godless robit takes my job, now you people want to import squid to under bid the market and force us out of the killing business. wraps self in flag, throws temper tantrum
I think you’re confused about this. Hospitals will have little to do with this, except for possibly carrying out the executions. The decisions are to be made by the DNC, based on voter rolls. I pit the RNC for their despicable push polling. - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board
Don’t worry, the Death Squid will only be good to use on swimmers and divers. The rest of the maket will be wide open to you.
Oh please. This is just history repeating itself.
When I was a brand, new nurse the university hospital in which I worked had an “ethics” commitee that decided which patients with kidney failure were “worth” dialysis. No dialysis was a death sentence.
I hardly think that a detached alien hand is someone to be complaining about how squid are ruining the labour market.
Maybe, but did your panel have self-inking DEATH stamps?
I was just a lowly nurse. I didn’t get to see the room where the panel met.
Apparently I changed my username too early. Death Squid - what a phrase!
As I posted earlier, cats and squid do not play well together.
Don’t you mean Survivor? 
I see this as a natural progression in reality TV, and with txt voting of people “off the island” a sterling example of participatory democracy with a true capitalist / free-market twist in that you can pay more to txt more to vote more.
So many possibilities…
This sounds like my vote on the death panel might get watered down. This is not acceptable. Get your own death panel!
cake or death?
cake please…
Can’t you already see the catch-22 develop, a patient and their paperwork, stamped for death, but the patient makes a miraculous recovery. (Turns out it was just gas.) They then have to go around and convince officials and loved ones, that, despite the indelible ink stamping, they are in fact, not dead. (2nd, hand, a friends father was declared dead by the credit bureaus. It took a few days to straighten that out.)
Not many people know this, but forcefully injecting half chewed pizza into one’s sinus really hurts.
If they’re suppsed to be dead, and they’re not, we’ll fix that in short order.
If you were referring to:
It’s a Pratchett reference. On the Discworld, Death speaks in all caps. He also likes cats and curry . . . but not together.
I’m sure he would approve of planning ahead for his visit, as his visit is inevitable.
No but I hear KBR and Blackwater are putting together proposals to do it for the government at a fraction of the cost.
No, that’s confusing too, seeing that on [del]stiffs[/del] patients in the morgue.
There needs (or need, depending upon your participation in that thread) to be two stamps. A heat activated one that glows “KILL” until body temperature drops below, oh, 93. And a heat inhibited one that glows “DEAD” when the body is below, oh, 78.
Sure, there’s that gray area, but it will say “KILL DEAD” through that confusing point and that will keep those afraid of zombies preoccupied.