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To: billbears

Dylan wasn't dying until his parents starved him - as such it is
murder, with the blessing of their wicked pastor! The floodgates
are open!

When you are inconvenient to some relatives, watch out. Your
words may come back to haunt you.


12 posted on 12/21/2005 9:13:11 AM PST by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
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To: Lesforlife
Dylan wasn't dying until his parents starved him

Actually, he WAS dying. His seizures were becoming more frequent and more debilitating. They could not be controlled except with more and more morphine, which would eventually have shut down his central nervous system.

These parents did this the most humane way possible. They withheld the nutrition, but they didn't take away hydration, which is what causes the most pain and torment for those who don't have food. In the Schiavo case, they not only withheld food, they also withheld any liquids.

If I'm not mistaken, even the Catholic Church allows for the withholding of food if there is no hope for the medical situation, however, one is NEVER to withhold liquids. Pope John Paul II made the decision himself NOT to be fed through a tube, but did have hydration during his last days. Granted, he made this decision for himself, but I think this set of parents had no other real choice. They would have watched their young son die in the throes of a violent seizure, and probably not too far in the future, from what I read in the story.

41 posted on 12/21/2005 3:51:49 PM PST by SuziQ
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