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To: Lil Flower
Why are you having difficulty understanding that giving a person morphine at the end of their life is not “terminal sedation?”

I assure you, I know the difference between proper pain control and terminal sedation. Morphine can be used for proper pain control. It can be and is used in conjunction with other meds for terminal sedation, and it can be and is used to mask the symptoms of pain and discomfort when water and food are prematurely withdrawn to bring about a premature death.

Why are you having difficulty grasping that these latter incidents are well documented and going on in segments of the hospice and palliative care industry?

Why do you want people to hurt and be uncomfortable when they don’t have to be?

Where have I said I want people to hurt and be uncomfortable? That is the false rhetoric of those who are trying to push the euthanasia agenda, if you weren't aware. Careful falsely employing their rhetoric. Folks might start to question your motives when you employ the tactics of the euthanasia promoters.

191 posted on 05/03/2012 7:32:02 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: Dr. Brian Kopp

>Careful falsely employing their rhetoric. Folks might start to question your motives when you employ the tactics of the euthanasia promoters.<

Well I don’t give a shit what other people think of me. I also don’t give a shit what tactics euthanasia promoters use , either. I’m just telling you that you can use morphine, ativan, and other medications to control restlessness and pain without it becoming terminal. However, keep in mind that the person in question is in fact dying. And I really think some people are so frightened by that fact, that they grasp at straws to make some sense of it all.


192 posted on 05/03/2012 6:49:45 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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