Posted on 03/25/2005 2:16:36 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican
To us, it may not look like the patient is in pain. However, the patient may be so exhausted from lack of food and water that he/she cannot muster the strength to express how much pain they are in.
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine (news - web sites) study, hospice nurses rated the deaths of terminally ill people who voluntarily stopped eating and drinking.
I understand they are giving her morphine. You have to wonder why, since she can't feel pain. Hmmmm...
So if she is unable to process pain and discomfort, then in her present state of existence before the feeding tube was withdrawn, she was not suffering.
Which begs the question, then how can they say they are withdrawing her feeding tube to "end her suffering" when she can't "suffer" in the first place.
I understand they are giving her morphine. You have to wonder why, since she can't feel pain. Hmmmm...
the claim that she's "suffering" is used quite freely by her husband and his lawyer. They speak of her as if she's elderly and in advanced stages of cancer. And the MSM-believing public digests their crap.
Prayers for Terri and her family. It's looking like that's all we can give them.
I wonder why no one in the MSM has elected to interview others who have experienced starvation and dehydration and been close to death?
Veterans of Japanese and Vietnamese POW camps, Holocaust survivors, persons who have had to abandon vessels for a raft and not been picked up for days....there is a vast data base for the MSM to "mine".
But then they would have to get out of the office and stop taking the secretaries out for long lunches. Too, too much of a burden. Easier to rely on the say-so of doctors who also belong to the Hemlock Society
Psalm 79.
Jim Caraway, 21, kept a suicidal Florida woman online for 11 hours early Wednesday until rescuers could find her.http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050319/NEWS08/503190324&SearchID=73202950703867
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"Amazing how she can survive a week without food and water but goes into cardiac arrest simply by being bulemic."
Her bulemia was a condition that went on for more than a week, along with the fact that she was an active adult, expending what little nutrition her body took in between binging and purging. The potassium imblanance that the malnutrition caused led to the heart attack. Lying in bed with only some reflex movements, requires far less energy, therefore a longer period of time before any systemic shutdowns.
But is it being alleviated, in this case? Judge Greer has been relentless in preventing Terri from receiving anything by mouth. He did not even allow her to receive last rites until the priest agreed to put the couple of drops of consecrated wine in her feeding tube rather than on her tongue, shortly before the tube was removed.
You were looking at evil lurking behind those eyes.Scary to know that there are so many people around who feel so comfortable executing an innocent woman to an excruciating death,on the word of an adulterous estranged husband.
At least now we know,and a lot of them are judges.
Wow!Very good point.
What a bunch of nothing it is neither true in medical terms nor factual terms.There has been no finding regarding the cause of her collapse.
So now it has begun, has it? Stupid, ignorant idiot Americans will be told that we need a strong euthanasia policy in order to keep their grandma from suffering like Terri. Let's just give grandma a shot and save all that money for her care, so we can give it to the illegal aliens. They are strong, healthy and work hard. Grandma is a drain on society. I can see it now: Idiot Americans lined up in Washington begging for a strong euthanasia policy.
They could go to Holland where sick babies are murdered and teen agers, who are crippled or ill, are regularly killed by the medical profession. They have been killing the elderly there for many years they don't even think about it it is so common.
Yeah, we need a strong euthanasia policy like Holland.
Yes.... I have never been this depressed. Ans I am embarrassed for our country. Our politicians are spineless fools.
I don't think bulemia would be the only cause of a potassium deficiency. I had an aunt who was hospitalized a couple of times for extremely low potassium. She was in her 70s, definitely not bulemic, just wasn't eating right. After her bouts I always have bananas in the house.
Given Terri's history of serious dieting, I can see how the low levels might occur by just erratic eating, not necessarily bulemia. imo
How about just asking for the "right" to give Terri ice chips and popsicles by mouth?
Ditto
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