Yeah, that really helped Mae what's-her-name from Georgia. BTW I don't consider food and water to be artificial. Did you eat today? drink? Why?
Unfortunately, Mae [what's her name] and Terry Schiavo
WAITED until it was too late. Evidently, this is
becoming a hyper situation for some people. It's possible
that a Living WIll document should be made part of the wedding nuptuals...and I'm not kidding! If the marriage license is a valid document authorizing the law to grant the living spouse everything under the deceased's ownership, including power of attorney, then why not this "will" granting automatic authority to plug-pulling?
Roxinal, morphine, etc. what matters the name. Doctors
authorize hospice agents to administer these "killing"
drugs all the time. As I've said here before, my
mother was getting morphine injections (at MY OWN HANDS)
under the doctor's say-so back in 1952. She had terminal
cancer, wanted to die at home (ala Jackie Kennedy). The
doctor told me she actually died of heart failure...due to the morphine dosages. In other words, I literally killed my own mother? The practice is still going on. Am I
sorry she died sooner than later that way? No...she was at peace. Only someone who has bathed, changed, tried to feed the screaming animal that cancer's agonizing pain reduces a human to can fathom the horror of the situation. Her
84 pound body mustered extreme physical strength and became a threat to all who came near the bed. That horrible creature was NOT my mother.
And BTW, she was cremated...as per her instructions early on when she was lucid.