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. . . . .
LOL I always cracks me up when people take the time to click on the post and enter a comment that basically says, "Not interested." If you aren't interested, why waste the time to do that in the first place?
Jeez. But put panties on the heads of terrorist and all Hell breaks loose.
Good question.
It is a contrarian tact. I use it sometimes to lighten things up. Some understand that other's want to fight. The Schiavo case is far from over and much will be learned. But every thread doesn't have to be about Terri. I was on the Official Friday Silliness thread the other day and someone brought the case over there.
Hope I didn't offend you with the Auto Ignore.
I mean... it is really really sad. A lifetime of taking pictures means absolutely nothing to her. And when we watched Finding Nemo... it took her an hour to figure out that it was a cartoon.... and not a real talking fish.
She stays during the day at an assisted living center and we pick her up in the evenings. When she has to go there fulltime someday, we've already signed the do-not-ressussiate papers. We can talk about the value of life and all that.... but I think that for those of us that are christians, we have to know when to let go and let them be with God. Where it's FAR FAR better anyway.
Alzheimer’s is a disease that one gets by no fault of his own. If we are going to save money lets cut off funds to people who get Ill of their own doing such as Aids and smoking. Medical cost were not a proplem in this country until there was Aids.
That's a pretty silly statement.
Aids showed up in or about 85 I am sure there is a graff out there showing Medical costs for the last 50 years.
I just think in light of malpractice suits, new drugs, new treatments, longer lifespans, better care, more longterm care, more elderly, aids, alzheimers, inflation... and everything else that effects medical costs... well to blame it all on aids is pretty silly. Keep in mind, I don't have aids, and I dont' know anybody that does... so it's not big issue for me. I just think your statement was pretty silly thinking.
Agreed. Lawyers and juries put it where it is.
In case you hadn't noticed, every thread isn't about Terri.
Be happy.
Just the costs of the rubber gloves every fireman every doctor and or nurse has to put on before they can even touch someone sence aids could pay off the national debt
LOL
Dr. Cranford was Nancy Cruzan's dr. also and talked her parents into taking away her feeding tube and it took her 12 days to die. The father, Mr. Cruzan committed SUICIDE the day beofre Terri Schiavo died!!! He must have felt so damn guilty.
I am happy.
Mike Schiavo used Dr. Cranford because of what I just posted about Nancy Cruzan and her starving to death.....and her father committing suicide.
much less the prescription that was 25.00 in 85 is now some 500.00 so we can have R&D funds to cure Aids.
Medical costs in this country weren't a problem before socialism took hold.
Well, it worked. It made me laugh.
I'm glad. It has been so tense lately.
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