Elderly Covid patients in Sweden given morphine instead of oxygen (twitter.com) 15 points by martythemaniak 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] cinntaile 4y ago ↗ The article itself was discussed yesterday. That Twitter thread is very one sided though.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30810534
[–] webmobdev 4y ago ↗ Wow, seems like a government decision to cull the old and the frail! Can the Swedish government be held accountable for this?
[–] type0 4y ago ↗ Opioids reduce the breathing function and make it faster to end their livesbtw euthanasia, especially forced one is prohibited in Sweden
[–] brador 4y ago ↗ I've heard first hand accounts of the same thing happening in the UK. Sick elderly, close but not at end of life, given a shot of morphine and left to die.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 23.5 ms ] threadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30810534
btw euthanasia, especially forced one is prohibited in Sweden