Posted on 03/27/2025 5:38:11 PM PDT by Morgana
That’s just nuts. If he was in hospice care, I could understand, but he was in a hospital which is supposed to give care, and healing if possible. You’re not giving them comfort if you’re starving them to death. Thank God they got another doctor to intervene. Where was this hospital, and why couldn’t his family have had him removed from that hospital, and taken elsewhere, or home?
The signed paper was the battering ram.
NJ.
My second oldest sister was in hospice care in 2011. By the time they realized she had a urinary tract infection, she was pretty downhill. They couldn't even give her an antibiotic for the infection. They ended up putting a catheter in her because she was constantly wetting the bed due to being non-ambulatory. Once she was to the point where she couldn't take food or liquid, the nurse told me that it would probably be a week until she passed. It was a little longer than that for her. She passed at 12:30 a.m. on her 69th birthday that year. We always figured she didn't want to die being younger than our mother who passed at 69 as well. I also figured she waited until the 2nd day of September to die, so the government couldn't screw her out of her last social security check. That was the type of humor my sister had.
bttt
Her poor parents and brother. They were willing to take care of her but those murderous ghouls insisted she be starved to death. She wasn’t on life support but required a feeding tube. There will be a reckoning in the Court of Heaven for this cruelty done to an innocent basically helpless patient.
We've tangled recently, but please allow me to extend my deepest empathy, and wish you peace of mind. That is a horrific situation to be in.
ifinnegan, I may not approve of some of Fuzz’s moderate Republican views, but this is not one of those times. The man does not support death, He acknowledges it, and he was faced with a horrifying situation. There is no evil in the decisions he and his family reached. In fact, there may have been some mercy exhibited. Please tread a little more carefully on what has to be a delicate topic for him.
Ok.
Thanks.
Hi Fuzz,
My condolences on the loss of your mother; that is very hard.
Most people who die in hospice die gradually and as time goes on, they lose the ability physically to process food and water due to organ failure. At this point, nutrition and hydration are withdrawn.
This is what a natural death looks like: that the person dies of what is killing them or of the treatment.
Terri Schaivo’s situation was completely different. She was not in the process of dying, and the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration was not a treatment but the method by which death was caused, which is completely backwards from what medical care is supposed to be.
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