More great moments in socialized medicine: Pathway for the elderly that leads to legal execution

At around 4 am on Monday, a friend was woken by a call from the private care home in south-west London where her 98-year-old grandmother is resident. "Mrs ------- has breathing difficulties," the night manager told her. "She needs oxygen. Shall we call an ambulance? . . . She needs to go to hospital. Do you want that? Or would you prefer that we make her comfortable?" But being "made comfortable" is no longer the reassuring euphemism it once was. Telegraph