Liverpool pathway

The DT is crowing about having put a spoke in the wheels of the people who are promoting the use of the Liverpool Pathway. Which annoys firstly because it is scarcely something to be crowing about (to take a leaf out of their own book) and secondly because they do not seem to be able to see that the overall effect of their interventions in the matter is likely to be more miserable deaths than there might otherwise have been.

On the same subject the Guardian was going pompous about how the business of dying must never be reduced to a tick box exercise. They don't seem to understand that tick boxes are the best way known to man (or for that matter woman) of reducing things which are difficult to processes which can be managed and which can deliver reasonable results, at least more often than not. Tick boxes rule the developed world, not least in the private sector, so well known for being so good at everything.

All along much the same lines as people who get pompous about how something or other which is very important has been reduced to a matter of money. That we have given something which ought to be kind & cuddly over to the accountants & bean counters. People who don't seem to understand that very few important public decisions are public money neutral, public money which does not grow on trees and is unlikely so to do any time soon.