‘Do we spend too much on the dying?’

A DEPUTY has questioned whether money spent on high-cost medical treatment for dying patients could be better used.
Last month the States agreed to back an obesity strategy for the island. However, there will be no money available for 2010 and the cost of fully funding the scheme would run to £400,000 a year.
Now Al Brouard is asking whether the funds used for dying patients could prove more beneficial and help more people if allocated towards areas such as preventive treatment, health promotion and the new obesity strategy.
‘We tend to spend a lot of effort at the last few days of someone’s life, and a lot of finance, for the sake of maybe one or two weeks,’ he said.
‘Had it been spent earlier in one’s life, on things like health promotion and the obesity strategy, perhaps that could have preserved their life much more than those weeks.’
This attitude could make more people healthier for longer and help them lead happier lives in general, said Deputy Brouard, pictured.
‘It is a very difficult subject and my intention is not in any way to worry people, but it is just an observation, which others have made as well.’( from thisisguernsey)

mmm prehaps we should give them an overdose and kill them of Mr Brouard....