I was checking out Listverse, and came across this under “Stupid Mistakes Serial Killers Make”.
How is it that in over twenty years of perusing true crime websites, I never heard of the Lainz Angels of Death? Holy shit! Okay, I know there are sometimes killer nurses out there, but I thought it was a rare anomaly. This one managed to talk three of her co-workers to participate in her sick and evil game? WTF???
What bothers me is, just how rare is something like this going on in other nursing homes or hospices?
And with the Boomers getting older, is this something to worry about? It’s relatively rare that someone gets a kick out of playing death god, but what about burned out, overworked nursing home employees putting irritating, hard to deal with patients “out of their misery”? I think this could be happening more than we’d like to think. And we just can’t rely on the culprits getting drunk and bragging in bars so we can overhear and catch them like what happened with these Lainz creatures.
All the killers have been released from prison now. Unbelievable.
How safe are our elderly at these places? Christ, I hope I die suddenly on the street.
Every once in a while (not often) I see some article about doctors or nurses getting caught euthanizing residents in nursing homes or hospitals. Googling a bit, I see more cites than I would have expected. This one, in particular, rather jumped off the page at me (note, it’s from about 8 years ago):
Didn’t notice if it did when I posted that, but I just did a more specific search and found a bunch of sources reporting the story. I didn’t look at these stories to see if they are all simply repeating the story from one original source. But there are plenty of other cites of doctors and nurses doing euthanasia in nursing homes around.
I think you need to look at when this person made these comments and compare them to the timeline of Obamacare and so-called NHS ‘death panels’
I also think you might also consider that he represents a religious ‘right to life’ grouping - and is obviously heavily partisan in the debate over euthanasia. He is currently retired from medicine and is a practising Catholic Priest.
He posits that the use of subjective diagnostic tools are in and of themselves tantamount to euthanasia rather than a means of case management - whilst death prediction is not normally an easily predicted event, it is a process that can be managed - and managing the process, no matter if it is one hour or six months does not mean euthanasia.Do we have some boundary between where on the one side we have palliative care and on the other is euthanasia and where and how would such a boundary be drawn and by whom?
Taking sensationlist headlines from The Daily Princess Diana Mail is unlikely to be fruitful, factual, accurate or worthwhile.
In the meantime other nations do have assisted dying without criminal sanctions provided certain protocols are followed. This story is merely on part of one side of the debate and is unhelpful in generating a considered position. Add to this that others will try to employ various points for their own advantage - such as linking it exclusively to the UK and then deploying that as an argument against Universal Healthcare - when the truth is that voluntary euthanasia is exclusively the province of private healthcare and not even in the UK whatsoever - but hey - lets not allow facts get in the way of the UHC or RtoL debates eh?
Here in Canada we have Elizabeth Wetlauffer who plead guilty in 2017 to 8 counts of first degree murder, 4 counts of attempted murder and 2 counts of aggravated assult of elderly patients in nursing homes. She’s not likely to be getting out of jail anytime soon. The case lead to a public inquiry that released its findings two years later, although I do not know how many of the recommendations have actually been adopted.