Posted on 04/09/2005 9:19:47 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
“.... the real news is that there are hundreds and thousands of angels of death in our nation, working quietly “underground,” so to speak, and physicians and nurses know this is going on. The news is that many patients who are not actively dying are being killed, not cared for, in hospice agencies.” (Courtesy of The Hospice Patient Alliance, a hospice watchdog group)
She was born with CP…needed lots of care and special treatment. G-tube, Trach, central line, PIC lines, IV, non ambulatory, needed body casts just to hold her trunk up as she had no ribs…typical for a disabled kid. She was a sweety. She smiled and laughed and cried…she loved being held and cuddled and played with. She would use her little hands to touch us and toys and stuffed animals. She never had any behaviors. Her parents felt she wouldn’t want to live like this so they had us pull the tube and remove the trach and lines.I took care of her every day I was at work. It took her a whole longer to go than it took Terri. I cried and screamed about it. Almost quit the job over it. It was horrible. (Email from Raven, medical professional and blogger)
Human beings are the only creatures on this planet who are capable of contemplating their own death. This quirk of evolution has allowed us to create a grand mystique around a perfectly natural biological process that otherwise would remain, as it does in the rest of the animal kingdom, an instinctual matter. The problem is, no one wants to either contemplate it very much or talk about it. Most of us take the attitude that “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”
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It is hard to figure the motive, unless these people are sick zealots about killing people. I would think that institutions would be more interested in keeping their beds full to protect their bottom lines.
I like the name of this organization, "Right Wing Nuthouse."
Interesting too, that they give a nod to evolution at the beginning of paragraph 3.
I hope some freepers with first hand knowledge may comment on the actual issue, though. I have several good friends in the medical field and have not heard mention of this being usual, though I am betting it does occur.
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