"Florida the Death State
My proposal is to rename the former Sunshine State as the Death State. I think this is a solid proposal since the state of Florida now agrees that brain damage is a reason for someone to be dehydrated to death.
Terminal dehydration, as the medical community calls it, is a horrid, slow, agonizing death for the non-terminal, disabled people who are forced to endure it. Very soon, the recognition of this fact will cause the general population in this country to agree to euthanasia by injection. Physicians in various states are even now testing this barrier by injecting curare derivatives or potassium chloride into patients, patients who have not requested help in dying, and whose families have not requested death for the person killed. To the best of my knowledge, charges have only occasionally been filed against these physicians, in spite of the their having taken matters of life and death into their own hands.
Quite some time ago a very wise man once said this, ""The physician should and may do nothing else but preserve life. Whether it is valuable or not, that is none of his business. If he once permits such considerations to influence his actions, the doctor will become the most dangerous person in the State". Little did this German physician, Christopher Hufeland, realize at the time how prophetic his words would become in his own country..
Currently pediatric specialists in Boston are proposing in medical journals that we need not wait until death has occurred in order to harvest organs from a patient. (Sept, 2003, Critical Care) I am sure it is difficult to see those useful organs being "wasted" in brain damaged and dying children every day. Nonetheless, we must make a small attempt, at least, to restrain ourselves from rushing to kill our own population of "useless eaters". Otherwise we will then join Florida as a society of marchers in the Culture of Death."