What God calls it
This time around, Felos is calling it the Death Process.
Another piece of a puzzle that is increasingly ugly as it nears completion.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Mark the enemy well.
Cold blood murderers have no rights. No more.
What God calls it
Brutal. Everyone who is asked to sign a "living will" that includes language authorizing removal of a feeding tube should get to see this document.
This is so horrible, it is almost incomprehensible that a civilized people would do such a thing.
A criminal being executed is afforded more concern. This is trully shattering.
I have this strange feeling that all this is coming down on this EASTER week for a reason....
We need to pray and trust in Our Father....How symbolic will it be if Terri is saved this week of all weeks? Not just the tube being reinserted, but saved from her husbands control and put into protective custody - gets the treatment and rehab she needs and eventually comes out of this enough to communicate?
What a victory for Terri and for countless thousands of others in the future.
God works His miracles, but sometimes He expects us to help - to earn them. WE must continue the fight - and the prayers. WE finally have the media all over it...albeit, they still need a lot of education on the facts!
"What Ye have done to these..."
The One Big Patriot has made a big exit it seems.
Probably one of those ACLU members who are in an outrage over terrorists with panties on their heads and atheists offended by Christmas trees and death row inmates without gourmet food, etc...But just fine with 3rd-term abortions and a beautiful soul like Terri facing a slow painful death. Just a guess though...
My stepfather died in a FL hospice last Aug. He was denied nutrition and hydration. He had a living will that declined extraordinary means but he and my mother were never told that nutrition and hydration and antibiotics were considered extraordinary care. The hospice lied to my mother about feeding him and when they thought she was giving him something to drink they screamed at her.
The clincher on this is that my mother even though she had power of attorney could not override the treatment hospice was delivering because my stepfather had a living will and had signed himself into hospice. She spent days trying to get him moved elsewhere but had no legal authority, hospice had his living will and signature for admittance. No other place would take him.
All this said, starvation and dehydration is NOT a pleasant way to go. It is not calm and peaceful. My family have seen it and been legally helpless to intervene.
My prayers are with Terri and her family.
Thank you for posting this...we all need to be aware of what it is.
Think about it. Have you ever been really thirsty? How dry your throat feels, how thick your tongue?
Now imagine laying there, not really able to move much, to communicate easily, and feel that thirst building up. There have been those who have come out of a state like Terri's who went through moments like this. They knew exactly what was going on, how the thirst builds up till it's an obsession before their eyes.
Can anyone guarantee that unless they are SURE via significant brainscan type testing that a person really has too low a consciousness to experience it, that people who are put down because someone else is horrified at their quality of life or wants to wrap up lose ends aren't merely in the "locked in" type condition and incommuncative?
A recent British study said that 40 percent of patients called PVS are misdiagnosed, and most get better.
Think about it. Laying there with a burning thirst and a body crying out for food. And you can't make anybody understand how much you need it.
I want to know how can torturing the vunerable, something you would be prosecuted for if you did to an animal, be done as an act of righteous love in the name of mercy?
And the King will answer them, `Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.' Then he will say to those at his left hand, `Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'
Matt 25:40-43
I haven't followed this story closely, but why not simply give her the same lethal cocktail they give to condemned murderers? If we simply withheld food and water from a death row inmate, it'd never stand.
The people responsible for this will burn in hell in the final analysis.
The red comments are absolutely correct. Imagine that they have to mask this "peaceful, painless" process with Valium and Morphine...This is barbaric and the medical hypocrisy is breathtaking! Words fail me.
BTTT.
The science of death. The Nazi doctors could have authored this termination regimen
