He explained that while landmark legal cases like those of Karen Ann Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan demonstrated it was "sensible to stop treatment in patients lingering in permanent vegetative states," it was now time to look beyond those cases.
"But here in the United States, many caregivers wouldn't consider not placing a feeding tube in the same patients," he wrote. "It's hard to understand why. If we want our loved ones to live and die in dignity, we ought to think twice before suspending them in the last stage of irreversible dementia. At it is, it seems that we're not thinking at all."
Ah, yes, I understand now. Starving and being dehydrated to death is just ever so much more "dignified"--right? Anyone see one of the several descriptions of how a person dies by these means? Can anyone honestly say that's a "dignified" way of dying?
These people really disgust me. Kcvl, your posts are a real service, thanks!
I can think of one "doctor" in particular who is not thinking. Too bad some people let all that education go to their heads and think that having an advanced degree makes them gods.