Not defending Carson, but these decisions really aren’t that uncommon. I think that is what he is referring to. The difference here is the family was split over the decision. If the family agreed that this is what she had wanted, no one would have even known about it except the immediate family.
Sadly, in hospice and cancer centers every day people go off medication and are just given pain killers to comfort them as they pass.
If you're not defending Carson, then don't defend Carson. If he won't condemn Jeb's inability or unwillingness to give Terri Schiavo the opportunity to live and to have the family that loved her by her side, he's not a compassionate man. He says he's a Christian. I thought Christians believe in the power of prayer.
His statement was despicable and more proof we're being played by this phony.
There is no excuse. This was a shameful episode. A precursor of the evil that has transpired since then.
This is not what happened to terri . Her family wanted to take care of her . They were able to communicate . Her husband wanted to remarry and collect the insurance . The government sided with the husband . She was was starved and deprived of water . It was a horrible slow death .
We were told it was euphoric . Since then I have advocated we use this euphoric method on our death sentence criminals . Cheap , effective.
The family was not split in the decision to save Terri’s life, every single member of her family and her close friends wanted her to live. It was her no-good husband who wanted her to die so he could take the millions of dollars that were was awarded to her in medical malpractice case, for her rehabilitation. Instead of using that money for physical and occupational therapy, and whatever else she might need, he took Terry away from her parents who were caring for her, at their own expense, shut her away in hospice, and began legal proceedings to pull her feeding tube so she could be starved and dehydrated to death. This husband found her presence quite inconvenient and in the way of his new life with his mistress and his two children by her. He was not going to get a divorce and marry this mistress, he was determined Terri should die so he could have her money. This as the most disgraceful thing imaginable. Just look at that picture of Terri and her mother; clearly she is not in a persistent vegetative state!
“Not defending Carson, but these decisions really aren’t that uncommon.”
What, decisions to kill a woman on the grounds that she is in a persistent vegetative state when she is not, not, not in a persistent vegetative state?
I hope such decisions are uncommon.
**Sadly, in hospice and cancer centers every day people go off medication and are just given pain killers to comfort them as they pass.**
In her case, she was not dying of anything. She didn’t go off of any medications she was taken off nutrition because her ex husband wanted her dead. Her parents wanted to take care of her, and he would not allow it and the courts went along with it.
That was not hospice care. That was murder by starvation. Period.
“Sadly, in hospice and cancer centers every day people go off medication and are just given pain killers to comfort them as they pass.”
-—Well, speaking as a Hospice Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, and owner of a Hospice agency, yes, some people do elect to withhold medications because at the end of life routine Meds aren’t going to result in anything but more side effects. BUT, that decision is VERBALIZED by that patient, or via family member executing a Living Will. They are not ever, in ANY circumstance, not given adequate care and support if not verbalized by patient, or Living Will is in place. Don’t you dare try to equate Hospice Care with mercy killing, or what was done to Terri Schiavo