Mother Wins Case to Kill Her Disabled Daughter

Life News ^ | 10/29/14 | Cassy Fiano

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(LiveActionNews) — The ethical problems with euthanasia have been detailed at Live Action News extensively. People with disabilities, people suffering from mental illness, people who were just lonely or old but otherwise healthy, even children — all can be euthanized in countries like Belgium and the Netherlands. That’s not good enough for the assisted suicide lobby though, which continues to campaign for the right to kill increasingly more people, from the disabled to the poor.

This slippery slope is now headed for the United States, with cancer patient Brittany Maynard saying she will kill herself on November 1, and until then, is publicly campaigning for pro-suicide organization Compassion & Choices. This is the same group that advocates for people to “voluntary stop eating and drinking” (VSED), even if they aren’t terminally ill, but simply feel “done”.

Two and a half years ago, Dr. Phil advocated for the mercy killing of people with disabilities. Well, Dr. Phil would be happy to know that his dream has now become a reality — one mother successfully petitioned the court to kill her severely disabled daughter.

Nancy Fitzmaurice, born blind with hydrocephalus, meningitis and septicaemia, could not walk, talk, eat or drink, the Mirror reported.

Her health was so poor she required 24-hour care and was fed, watered and medicated by tube at London’s Great Ormand Street Hospital. Her health deteriorated and as she grew she would scream in agony for hours despite being given morphine and ketamine.

Her mother, Charlotte Fitzmaurice Wise, knew the pain her daughter was suffering was too much for the 12-year-old to bear. She deserved to be at peace and had the right to die, knew her heartbroken mother, who had given up work as a nurse to be with her.

…“The light from her eyes is now gone and is replaced with fear and a longing to be at peace.

“Today I am appealing to you for Nancy as I truly believe she has endured enough. For me to say that breaks my heart.

…Her application was granted immediately, setting a precedent. It is the first time a child breathing on her own, not on life support and not suffering a terminal illness has been allowed to die in the UK.

The judge praised Wise for her “love and devotion” towards her daughter… which was shown by her fight to kill Nancy. The judge ruled that she had no quality of life anymore, and therefore, she should be killed by refusing to give her any food or water until she died. It took her 14 days to die. Wise claimed that she wanted to end her daughter’s suffering and give her death with dignity, but she chose to do that by making her daughter suffer a slow, agonizing, painful death. How does that make any sense?

Dehydration is horrible for a person to endure.

The body is about 60 percent water, and under normal conditions, he said, an average person will lose about a quart of water each day by sweating and breathing and another one to three quarts by urinating, he said. In the heat and under more difficult physical conditions, that amount increases, he said.

If it’s not replaced over time and dehydration becomes severe, cells throughout the body will begin to shrink as water moves out of them and into the blood stream, part of the body’s efforts to keep the organs perfused in fluid.

“All the cells will shrink,” Berns said, “but the ones that count are the brain cells. They don’t operate normally when they’re shrinking.” Changes in mental status will follow, including confusion and ultimately coma, he said. As the brain becomes smaller, it takes up less room in the skull and blood vessels connecting it to the inside of the cranium can pull away and rupture.

… Victims’ kidneys may shut down first, Berns said, as they continue to lack access to both water and salt. The kidneys cleanse the blood of waste products which, under normal conditions, are excreted in urine. Without water, blood volume will decline and all the organs will start to fail, he said. Kidney failure will soon lead to disastrous consequences and ultimately death as blood volume continues to fall and waste products that should be eliminated from the body remain.

Dying of starvation is also agonizingly painful.

Various effects from lack of hydration and nutrition, lead ultimately to death — mouth would dry out and become caked or coated with thick material . . . lips would become parched and cracked . . . tongue would swell and might crack . . . eyes would recede back into their orbits and cheeks would become hollow . . . lining of the nose might crack and cause the nose to bleed . . . skin would hang loose on his body and become dry and scaly . . . urine would become highly concentrated; leading to burning of the bladder . . . lining of his stomach would dry out, causing convulsions . . . respiratory tract would dry out into thick secretions that would result in plugging his lungs . . . at some point within 5 days 103 weeks his major organs, including lungs, heart, and brain would give out and he would die . . . extremely painful and uncomfortable . . . cruel and violent.

So to end a person’s supposed suffering — a person who is not terminally ill, is not on any life support, and can breathe on their own — we must make them suffer a slow, painful, horrific death. But only if they’re disabled, apparently.

We don’t treat dogs this way. We don’t execute murderers in such a cruel manner. If a serial killer on death row was executed by forcing them to undergo starvation and dehydration, there would be widespread outrage. But because this girl, a child, is severely disabled, it’s considered acceptable. Putting a bullet in her head would have been kinder, because it at least would have been immediate. But then we can’t tap dance around the fact that what this mother did is murder.

Wise assumes, as many people do, that a person wouldn’t want to live in such a way. But no one knows how her daughter felt about her quality of life and whether or not she wanted to live. No one knows how her daughter felt in those 14 days that she was being starved and dehydrated. And no one cares. Nancy Fitzmaurice was disabled and could not speak, so she was brutally, cruelly murdered, with the permission of her government. And notice that the suffering Wise spoke of repeatedly was her own, not her daughter’s. She couldn’t bear seeing her daughter like that. She was going through “torture” watching her daughter in pain. So she petitioned the court to get permission to force her daughter to die a slow, painful death instead of seeing palliative care.

It’s become appropriate in the United Kingdom to kill a person now because it’s too much of a hassle to keep them alive. It’s legal for parents to murder their children because they’re disabled, because they can’t speak for themselves, because the parent has decided that their lives are not worth living anymore. And we call it death with dignity.

LifeNews Note: Cassy Fiano is a twenty-something Florida native now living in Jacksonville, North Carolina who writes at a number of conservative web sites. She got her start in journalism at the Florida Times-Union. She is the mother of two sons, one of whom was diagnosed with Down Syndrome. This originally appeared at Live Action News.

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It’s become appropriate in the United Kingdom to kill a person now because it’s too much of a hassle to keep them alive. It’s legal for parents to murder their children because they’re disabled, because they can’t speak for themselves, because the parent has decided that their lives are not worth living anymore. And we call it death with dignity.

Somewhere in the darkest corner of Hell, Hitler is thinking that he could have killed millions more if he had called it "death with dignity."

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[GeronL]

The world is sick

[SevenofNine]

I read somewhere on BRIT wire I think somebody post here that elderly couple want kill themselves they are healthy they don’t want burden to their children if they do get sick

I think the couple live in England daughter agree they be burden to her family and her children

MAN can you imagine have her as adult daughter

I think she is only approve it I think brother didn’t like it I think he taking her court and his parents

[broken_arrow1]

First on Nazi’s list of victims so they could refine their mass murder techniques so they could operate on an industrial scale.

[Truth is a Weapon]

This is horrible. For a court to approve the withholding of food and water to cause death is unacceptable. If the court is going to rule that someone should die, they should have the balls to affirmatively kill the person rather than this cruel passive stuff.

May God have mercy on us.

[bgill]

The parents lovingly changed their kids diapers, fed them and wiped their snotty noses but the kids can’t return the love. Sick, sick, sick. Just wait until they get old.

[MeshugeMikey]

Thou [ all of thou} that not Murder! unambiguous..simple, concise, FINAL!

[Army Air Corps]

Shades of Logan’s Run.

[SevenofNine]

That like majority part of Europe right now they are wondering why the birthrate is low

[SevenofNine]

OHH Yeah that movie Logan Run

I can’t believe they going do remake

[bigbob]

can’t help wondering what the parent would do if you handed them a knife and said “ok, you win - do it.”

[trisham]

This is horrible. For a court to approve the withholding of food and water to cause death is unacceptable. If the court is going to rule that someone should die, they should have the balls to affirmatively kill the person rather than this cruel passive stuff.

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Imho, they're conflicted about this method of killing, and want to "wash their hands" of it.

[miss marmelstein]

Who knew that Hitler’s only fault was a messaging problem??!

[Talisker]

May God have mercy on us.

God is indeed going to have mercy on us - with a power that is going to shatter vicious arrogance of this world once and for all. And it is indeed something that has to be applied to the whole world, because there isn't any place left where people haven't embraced depravity and cruelty. I think we're looking at the "veil" the Bible says God will place over the world, the "heavy delusion." And that means politics won't work - God has to lift the veil. Politics only works when people are sane, but for the most part, people simply are not sane anymore.

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Who knew that Hitler’s only fault was a messaging problem??!

Since WWII the culture of death has been carefully refining its marketing strategy.

They have stopped using the term eugenics altogether, they talk about "choice" and "rights" in a way that makes their victims want to go along with the agenda, and killing somehow endows "dignity."

[verga]

Shades of Logan’s Run.

Not shades of, the first step towards.

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