‘ what I found hard to swallow is that starvation was the method of execution.’
What other choice is available?
That’s how my mother died. Alzheimer’s, she had a do not resuscitate order for 15 years at least and an order to not be kept alive artificially.
The only other option would have been a drug cocktail to end her life.
Instead, we had to watch her fade away slowly on drugs to keep her as comfortable as possible.
There’s really no good way to go, but damn, it was torture for all involved.
Of course you’re for euthanasia and death.
Why do you always support evil?
How old was your mom? Were her organs all still intact?
You do realize that they starved and dehydrated Terri without any painkillers of any kind, right?
You got to watch your mom “fade away slowly on drugs to keep her as comfortable as possible.”
Terri was not allowed to get one thing that would relieve pain. She wasn’t even allowed to have lip balm put on her cracked lips by her mom.
What Terri went through was absolute torture. Very, very different than your mom. Terri moaned and cried (no tears…not enough moisture in her body).
I guarantee you, the torture you think you felt with your mom, wasn’t even a fraction of what Terri and her parents and siblings went through.
That’s so hard to watch when hospice dehydrates your parent or loved one. Maybe it’s better that it speeds everything up but it’s not right. If that person is in pain, it’s probably better.