Nursing home indictments.

Earlier I posted a link to a NYT story on nursing home deaths...where officials refused to evacuate the patients.

Well, they are now indicted for murder...

And THIS needs investigation...

as Poweline said:More indictments could follow. Forty-five bodies were found yesterday in a New Orleans hospital; it was unclear how many were already dead before the emergency struck and were awaiting transport to a morgue, and how many died when they were apparently left behind in a "hasty evacuation." With a mandatory evacuation order in place well before Katrina struck, how is it possible that local hospitals did not obey, or that local officials failed to enforce the evacuation order even as to such vulnerable individuals--in this case, people who died, according to news accounts, not from drowning but from inattention?

And yes, the UK tabloids are discussing euthanasia en masse at a N.O. hospital...but both the language ("senior doctors", a term not used in the USA), the fact that it was a propriatory hospital which has higher standards than charity hospitals, and the implication that doctors, not nurses, control narcotic keys and give shots, make me wonder how much is true.

If it is true, the doctors are murderers. You see, they had enough drugs to kill, so this means they had enough drugs to keep the patients high in a morphine induced coma for three days until they could evacuate...so the murders would not be euthanasia, but poor judgement, i.e. Panic, making the emotional but incorrect decision they would be isolated forever....not to mention the dirty little fact that they should have evacuated the patient earlier...
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9-20-05 UPDATE:

Yup...as I expected, these patients were triaged, not killed...

The doctors evacuated the critically ill and gave morphine to those dying and did not evacuate them first...

In triage, the aim is to save the most lives: The dying or those with little chance of living are ignored while you save those who would die without quick treatment...

But those pushing the pro death agenda frequently blur the lines between withholding unwanted treatment and killing, or in this case, blurring the lines between triage and killing, in order to push their agenda, which confuses many good people who don't know the ultimate aims of the movement...which are rarely reported even though they are openly written about in the ethical literature...