Posted on 04/04/2005 6:33:25 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
Years before he categorized Terri Schindler Schiavo in the persistent vegetative state, which led to her death by dehydration, neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford was building the case for removing feeding tubes from society’s vulnerable.
"…The United States has thousands or tens of thousands of patients in vegetative states; nobody knows for sure exactly how many," Cranford wrote in a 1997 Minneapolis Star Tribune opinion piece titled: When a feeding tube borders on the barbaric. (WorldNetDaily. Com, March 23, 2005). "But before long, this country will have several million patients with Alzheimer’s dementia. The challenges and costs of maintaining vegetative state patients will pale in comparison to the problems presented by Alzheimer’s disease.
"The answer, he suggested, was physician-assisted suicide."
Cranford blames the medical profession for society’s rush toward physician-assisted suicide…"our archaic responses to pain and suffering; our failure to accept death as a reality and an inevitable outcome of life; our inability to be realistic and humane in treating irreversibly ill people. All of this has shaken the public’s confidence in the medical profession."
Could it be no-food-no-water, white-coated doctors, propelled by right-to-die activism, that is shaking the public’s confidence in today’s medical profession?
Alleged to have participated in states like California without courtesy of a legal license, Cranfeld openly applauds European values that embrace euthanasia. Countries like Belgium, where experts believe that 10 percent of all deaths now result from euthanasia or by drugs administered by doctors to hasten death. . . . .
Huh? People had written about Mr. Cruzan's suicide for a lot more than a week.
Do you have a link to the story about Mr. Cruzan's suicide? I can't find it ANYWHERE!! Thanks.
Did you try FR search?
Emotions still linger from Nancy Cruzan’s right-to-die case
Nancy's father, Joe, committed suicide in 1996, after being exhausted by the emotions of the legal fight and beaten down by the subsequent criticism that his family endured.
THANS!! From the story posted last week, I thoght the dad committed suicide that day. Thanks again.
hmmm...do you think Michael will commit suicide too?
we go from supporting life no matter what to the extreme....ending life no matter what...
believe me, I run into both camps....
some families that want absolutely everything done to their elderly parent to those that can't wait to get the death certificate signed and wondered just how long this death thingy is going to take.....
I don't know, and I don't know whether any 'suicide' by Michael is would be more likely voluntary or involuntary. Remember that Michael probably knows about a lot of behind-the-scenes actors who want to remain unknown.
vast-death-wing-conspiracy alert.
---what scares me is the all or nothing attitude....
we go from supporting life no matter what to the extreme....ending life no matter what...---
I think it's a sign of modern immaturity in dealing with death. For many people death is an abstract and frightening concept.
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