Comments on: Gods and Monsters — Part Two http://www.kipesquire.net/2005/09/gods-and-monsters-part-two/ A Stitch in Time Saves Nine ... But Haste Makes Waste Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:23:54 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ted http://www.kipesquire.net/2005/09/gods-and-monsters-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Ted Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:11:12 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=1527#comment-820 Kip, I don't understand your claim here. The hospital's power and water goes out; no rescue comes for days, and several dozen patients die. The rescuers arrive, and the rescue of the hundreds of patients who might still survive is supposed to be delayed so that the dead patients aren't left behind, because it would be just as bad to leave behind a corpse as a living patient? <br /> <br /> [Kip replies: Huh? How could you possibly interpret this post as meaning "Evacuate the corpses..."? The idea is that they should have been evacuated <b><i>before they became corpses</i></b>.] Kip, I don't understand your claim here. The hospital's power and water goes out; no rescue comes for days, and several dozen patients die. The rescuers arrive, and the rescue of the hundreds of patients who might still survive is supposed to be delayed so that the dead patients aren't left behind, because it would be just as bad to leave behind a corpse as a living patient?

[Kip replies: Huh? How could you possibly interpret this post as meaning "Evacuate the corpses..."? The idea is that they should have been evacuated before they became corpses.]

]]> By: Matt http://www.kipesquire.net/2005/09/gods-and-monsters-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Matt Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:00:11 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=1527#comment-819 Well, it wouldn't be better for their loved ones...but it would bear significantly on a claim of negligent homicide. People do die in hospitals all the time. Moreover, the circumstances of the storm could conceivably have caused conditions which exacerbated the odds against those patients, without necessarily representing negligence. (I'm thinking of things like loss of power to climate control and life-support equipment.) <BR /> <BR />By all means...if they were pateients deliberately abandoned by those who had accepted responsibility for their care, then those responsible should be punished severely. But that is not, at this point, the only conclusion which could reasonably be drawn from the evidence at hand. Well, it wouldn't be better for their loved ones…but it would bear significantly on a claim of negligent homicide. People do die in hospitals all the time. Moreover, the circumstances of the storm could conceivably have caused conditions which exacerbated the odds against those patients, without necessarily representing negligence. (I'm thinking of things like loss of power to climate control and life-support equipment.)

By all means…if they were pateients deliberately abandoned by those who had accepted responsibility for their care, then those responsible should be punished severely. But that is not, at this point, the only conclusion which could reasonably be drawn from the evidence at hand.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://www.kipesquire.net/2005/09/gods-and-monsters-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-818 KipEsquire Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:21:38 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=1527#comment-818 I'm not sure how that would be any better. =/ I'm not sure how that would be any better. =/

]]> By: Downtown Lad http://www.kipesquire.net/2005/09/gods-and-monsters-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-817 Downtown Lad Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:17:25 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=1527#comment-817 I had heard that the hospital claims that everyone who was alive was removed from the hosptial. So perhaps these 40 people were already dead BEFORE the storm? I had heard that the hospital claims that everyone who was alive was removed from the hosptial. So perhaps these 40 people were already dead BEFORE the storm?

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