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Schiavo neurologist views Alzheimer patients as physician-assisted "suicides"
CFP ^ | April 4, 2005 | Judi McLeod

Posted on 04/04/2005 6:33:25 AM PDT by MikeEdwards

Years before he categorized Terri Schindler Schiavo in the persistent vegetative state, which led to her death by dehydration, neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford was building the case for removing feeding tubes from society’s vulnerable.

"…The United States has thousands or tens of thousands of patients in vegetative states; nobody knows for sure exactly how many," Cranford wrote in a 1997 Minneapolis Star Tribune opinion piece titled: When a feeding tube borders on the barbaric. (WorldNetDaily. Com, March 23, 2005). "But before long, this country will have several million patients with Alzheimer’s dementia. The challenges and costs of maintaining vegetative state patients will pale in comparison to the problems presented by Alzheimer’s disease.

"The answer, he suggested, was physician-assisted suicide."

Cranford blames the medical profession for society’s rush toward physician-assisted suicide…"our archaic responses to pain and suffering; our failure to accept death as a reality and an inevitable outcome of life; our inability to be realistic and humane in treating irreversibly ill people. All of this has shaken the public’s confidence in the medical profession."

Could it be no-food-no-water, white-coated doctors, propelled by right-to-die activism, that is shaking the public’s confidence in today’s medical profession?

Alleged to have participated in states like California without courtesy of a legal license, Cranfeld openly applauds European values that embrace euthanasia. Countries like Belgium, where experts believe that 10 percent of all deaths now result from euthanasia or by drugs administered by doctors to hasten death. . . . .


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alzheimer; assisted; euthanasia; killtheinconvenient; physician; schiavo; suicide; terri; terrischiavo
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1 posted on 04/04/2005 6:33:26 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
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To: MikeEdwards

Sure would solve the rising costs of health care and Social Security.



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2 posted on 04/04/2005 6:35:40 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: mtbopfuyn
Liberals would love it. More money for their friends.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
3 posted on 04/04/2005 6:36:33 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mtbopfuyn

Yes, that is what is will come down to. The extreme cost of taking care of such patients will make this whole debate academic.


4 posted on 04/04/2005 6:38:44 AM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: MikeEdwards

Geez...I've been reporting on this on FR for a week now...think the MSM will pick up on it? NOT.


5 posted on 04/04/2005 6:41:06 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: MikeEdwards
Auto Ignore: A total lack of interest in this subject on my behalf has triggered Auto Ignore. Attempts to drag me into a discussion on this subject are futile. Do not ping me concerning this thread!
6 posted on 04/04/2005 6:41:34 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Tag line repossessed)
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To: MikeEdwards
Gee I wonder how Mikie Schiavo found this guy and hired him to be one of his expert witnesses on Terri's prognosis? One report has said this was the doctor who actually disconnected her feeding tube - anyone confirm this?

I believe Dr Cranford was also the expert witness who persuaded Judge Greer that feeding Terri or letting her have liquid orally would be "artificial" because she wasn't voluntarily lifting the spoon or cup or ice chips to her own dying lips......pretty disingenuous, eh?
7 posted on 04/04/2005 6:42:05 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

Add the fact that many people nowadays are totally unprepared to face the diminishing capabilities of the elderly or their ultimate deaths and you have a serious problem with the popularization of euthanasia.


8 posted on 04/04/2005 6:43:38 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Glad to see you've pulled your plug. One less useless poster consuming bandwidth that real FReepers can use.
9 posted on 04/04/2005 8:21:10 AM PDT by TigersEye (You say Barabbas I say Jesus, let's call the whole thing off. (too late now))
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To: TigersEye

Haven't pulled the plug. I just got tired of watching people beat the crap out of each other over this. The case is tragic no matter which side you're on. I was on the side of life but both sides of this have gotten too inflamed. Take your comment to me. You don't know me but you jumped right in and insulted me. Hope you're proud.


10 posted on 04/04/2005 8:36:08 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Tag line repossessed)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I'm not interested in your opinion, that's all.


11 posted on 04/04/2005 9:19:33 AM PDT by TigersEye
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To: TigersEye

Coming from you, that is a compliment. Go kick your dog. You are dismissed.


12 posted on 04/04/2005 9:28:36 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Tag line repossessed)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Coming from someone who dismissed everyone with his initial post your opinion means nothing. Your suggestions mean nothing. Apparently your commitment to refuse to be drug into this subject means nothing. Your tube is pulled.
13 posted on 04/04/2005 9:41:07 AM PDT by TigersEye (Are your parents Pro-Choice? I guess you got lucky! ... Is your spouse?)
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To: MikeEdwards

It's just a darn shame that his parents didn't practice abortion. Amen.


14 posted on 04/04/2005 9:45:49 AM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: TigersEye
You ignored the Auto Ignore so in order not to be rude I replied. I should have ignored you since you seem to be a set on being the reason I post auto ignore. I will amend my ways and ignore you forth going. Your tube is still connected but to the wrong place.
15 posted on 04/04/2005 9:46:04 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Tag line repossessed)
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To: MikeEdwards
Could it be no-food-no-water, white-coated doctors, propelled by right-to-die activism, that is shaking the public’s confidence in today’s medical profession?

Doctors are as vulnerable to the siren song of the culture of death as judges, lawyers, or anyone, perhaps more so. Once they get a taste for killing, any consideration of ethics, the Hippocratic Oath, and the like, goes out the window, drowned by the bloodlust. It bears remembering that Kevorkian, Mengele, the infamous "Dr. Brandt" of The Fuhrer Order, and all the rest, were at one time doctors before they became killers.

16 posted on 04/04/2005 9:54:15 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Your post has been automatically ignored.
This post is not meant to indicate my opinion one way or the other. It should not be construed as a sign that I considered your post or that this is a reply to your post. This post should not be considered to be evidence that I am participating in this thread or in a conversation with you.
It is just an automatic post with no meaning or relevance to anything whatsoever.

17 posted on 04/04/2005 10:04:03 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is an automatic non-post post.)
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To: MikeEdwards
Anyone see a contradiction here?

Cranford believes that PVS or Alzheimer patients have no constitutional rights.

Cranford testified that Terri was PVS for Michael, who said he was protecting Terri's constitutional right to refuse treatment and her constitutional right to privacy.

18 posted on 04/04/2005 1:39:46 PM PDT by syriacus (Weird George Felos repeatedly flicked his tongue out his gaping mouth when lying to the press 3/31)
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To: syriacus

A brand new category of human beings that are no longer "persons."

Who's next?


19 posted on 04/04/2005 1:41:27 PM PDT by hocndoc (Choice is the # 1 killer in the US)
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To: MikeEdwards

Ah, another pig squeals its way into the limelight.


20 posted on 04/04/2005 1:44:00 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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