Newspeak is alive and well.

George Orwell would be proud - have you heard of the Liverpool Care Pathway? The crucial newspeak word here is "care", because this is a hospital procedure designed to lead to a patient's death - how caring can you get?  Of course proponents would argue that it is caring - only to be invoked for terminally ill patients in their final days and designed to ease their passing - and crucially, with the consent of the patient, or if, as will usually be the case they are unable to function, their next of kin.  But in a very worrying development, the Court of Appeal has ruled that it must ultimately be for the hospital to decide, even where the next of kin do not agree.  So we have the rather bizarre situation where it would be illegal for a doctor to help a person to die who wishes to do so, but legal for a doctor to bring about the death of a person against their wishes, or those of their next of kin.  I think this current buzzword "omnishambles" just about sums it up.