Quote: It is ILLEGAL under both Florida and Federal law for ANYONE to kill Terri in the manner she is being killed.
Pulling feding tubes happens around 1000 timer per day in hospitals and nursing homes according to USA Today. They pulled this from medical records.
There has also been a bunch of post by Freepers on this is how their parents went.
And Michael is very experienced in this....he killed his parents this way, also.
Apples and oranges. USA Today wasreferring to the terminal and elderly, with no hope of recovering. And they probably either have a living will or the family really is doing the right thing.
Terri Schiavo is a totally different thing. She was not dying, was not diagnosed with a terminal illness, and had no living will. AND, there were at least two doctors who said she had hope of some recovery.
Healthy bodies are not starved to death "on a daily basis" in this country, not by legal means. What's so hard to understand the simple difference between terminal, end-of-life conditions and Terri Schiavo? Terri could likely have lived another 25 years simply by being fed. When you have a terminal illness or your body is shutting down from old age, no amount of food or water in the world is going to save you. This was not the case with Terri. I don't care how you want to spin this or what law you want to cite. She had healthy, working organs and breathed on her own, and now she is being starved until she dies. Can you with an honest conscience say otherwise?
POINT 1: Judge Greer did NOT order the feeding tube removed, he ORDERED NUTRITION AND HYDRATION be stopped. There is a BIG difference.
POINT 2: When feeding tubes are removed from patients everyday, MOST of these are terminally ill patients in their last days. The feeding tube and food in the stomach often makes the patient feel worse. When the patient dies, the cause of death is the illness NOT dehydration.
AND WHO DOESN'T OFFER A SIP OF WATER TO SUCH A PATIENT TO RELIEVE HIS DRY MOUTH?
[Pulling feding tubes happens around 1000 timer per day in hospitals and nursing homes according to USA Today. They pulled this from medical records.
There has also been a bunch of post by Freepers on this is how their parents went.]
Does the article say in how many of those cases (sounds like too high of a number to me) an advanced directive was available?
Whether or not Terri wanted a feeding tube removed is still a huge question for me. i know, some of you will say the courts agreed that is was, but there are conflicting statements to those entered by MS, his brother and his brother's wife. There is even a statement from a nurse who stated that MS told her he had no idea what Terri would have wanted.
Court-ordered removal of a feeding tube seems wrong in this case. There's just too much doubt about her wishes to suit me.
Two points:
Your source is highly suspect. USA Today???
Tubes are pulled from patients who are really on life support. You know, respirators, LVADs, dialysis, etc. Those are patients who would die no matter how much you fed them. And the last thing to go is the intravenous infusion set, which keeps them hydrated. Starvation may not be painful, but dehydration is.