# If the death panels did come into being, what sort of uniform, logo, etc. would you design for them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898 "2009-09-04T19:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/41 "2010-03-22T13:34:38Z")
Now that HCR, and apparently the death panels, have to come pass, I thought I’d revive this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/42 "2010-03-22T14:00:10Z")
> [@GolfWidow](#): > > I think I’d go with bright, loud clown suits, floppy shoes, red bulb noses and topped off with rainbow afro wigs. Squirting lapel flower would be an optional accessory. > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > …I’d prefer they wear pastel blazers, embroidered with something similar to those bad modernist logos that churches and hospitals adopted in the 1970’s. The panelists should be female, but otherwise sexless, perky but not interpersonal, conscientious but not compassionate. > > In short, they should not startle nor upset the patient, but rather present a familiar figure from his or her past: the college administrator, the real estate agent, the civil servant; all ostensibly in helping professions but in practice facilitators of disappointment. This will be a comfort to the patients, as he or she will look back on all these and many similar figures of this archetype and take consolation that life was indeed a piece a shit and he or she is well out of it. I’m not sure which of these is eviler. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/43 "2010-03-22T14:04:18Z")
The uniforms described in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Welcome to the Monkey House.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/44 "2010-03-22T14:11:10Z")
Nah. A plain dark blue suit for the management. Blue suit, red tie. It works for television. For the guys in the field? Allow me to quote from ‘V for Vendetta’. Robert: HOMES? They’re GAS chambers! Creedy: Not gas. If you want to know the truth, Robert, there’s just three good south Ken boys with iron bars. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/45 "2010-03-23T05:59:18Z")
Badges with the motto: “YES, WE CAN! And don’t think we won’t!” The organization would be officially known as “Death Support Systems”, or “Society’s New Universal Fatalities Force”, or S.N.U.F.F. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/46 "2010-03-23T06:54:26Z")
[Now with saturated fat](http://fizisist.web.cern.ch/fizisist/funny/SoylentGreen.jpg) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/47 "2010-03-23T09:14:20Z")
The chair of the panel should dress exactly like[this guy](http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/tlthe5th/nazi-vatican/totenkopf.jpg). The moustache is mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/48 "2010-03-23T14:03:28Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > The chair of the panel should dress exactly like[this guy](http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/tlthe5th/nazi-vatican/totenkopf.jpg). > > The moustache is mandatory. I like the skull and crossbones on his hat. It’s a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![heavyarms553](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@heavyarms553](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heavyarms553)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/49 "2010-03-23T14:06:35Z")
I’d call it the Department of Death, or DoD for short. I think that acronym may already be taken though. ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/50 "2010-03-23T14:32:46Z")
Surely Jackboots would be de rigueur. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/51 "2010-03-23T14:45:29Z")
The people responsible for the Venture Brothers have already [taken care of this](http://www.sillof.com/images/Customs/Ventures/c-vb-killenger.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/52 "2010-03-24T05:23:35Z")
For the logo, I’m thinking something like [this](http://www.freeprintablecoloringpages.net/samples/Plants_And_Flowers/Acorn.png). ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/53 "2010-03-24T05:30:24Z")
I want the death panel’s uniforms to be as described below–covering the bodies of buxom young females. Kind of like the hostesses at the Ethical Suicide Parlors in Kurt Vonnegut’s story _Welcome To The Monkey House_: > [@](#): > > All Hostesses were virgins. They also had to hold advanced degrees in psychology and nursing. They also had to be plump and rosy, and at least six feet tall… > > Their uniforms were white lipstick, heavy eye makeup, purple body stockings with nothing underneath, and black-leather boots… In a really good week, say the one before Christmas, they might put sixty people to sleep. It was done with a hypodermic syringe. Apparently [this guy](http://themaskedintellectual.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html) agrees. Shit! If this gets out the wing-nuts might actually _stop_ banning Vonnegut books and _start_ having them condensed and read to them! ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/54 "2010-03-24T07:05:14Z")
I think this one’s a [good one](http://static.open.salon.com/files/death_panel1250022005.jpg). I was trying for literal meaning of Death Panel in google image search, but the logo would work well. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898/55 "2010-03-24T14:06:15Z")
> [@Yumblie](#): > > For the logo, I’m thinking something like [this](http://www.freeprintablecoloringpages.net/samples/Plants_And_Flowers/Acorn.png). It’d work better if you put a hammer and sickle and/or a swastika in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-death-panels-did-come-into-being-what-sort-of-uniform-logo-etc-would-you-design-for-them/508898.md?page=2)