Posted on 02/09/2009 12:29:05 PM PST by julieee
Rome, Italy -- After an international debate over whether she should be subjected to a painful starvation and dehydration death, Eluana Englaro has died. The disabled woman had been in a minimally conscious state since 1992, when she was involved in an automobile accident.
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Shameful.
Very sad. I don’t know why it is so important for the pro-death folks to kill a person who isn’t causing any hardship to anybody (their usual excuse is the family’s “suffering”), was not in pain, had people to care for her, and could simply have been allowed to live for as long as she could hold on - or until she woke up. Killing that person because an absolute (demonic) cause for them.
It’s amazing how flippant people are in making such a life-and-death decision. Yes this woman was older and yes she had been in a coma for a very long time but what is scary is how, in starving her to death, the ghouls have to resort claiming how painless, peaceful, yada yada, a starvation death is.
Four days wasn’t starvation, it was dehydration - even crueler.
RIP.
sad Ping
I had hoped Berlusconi’s and the others ministers’ effort would have succeeded. She may now rest in eternal peace.
I hear it is euphoric.
(today’s “liberals” are disgusting)
yep.
It is such a thing of beauty...
But don’t you dare try it on a dog!
And forbid the thought that you should even suggest late-term, partial-birth abortions on a litter of unwanted kittens!
Prayers for the ones this woman left behind- that through the pain and confusion of this evil they may somehow find His peace.
PING to some very sad news.
Home to God, Who loves her.
In other words, it's not because of money (tube-feeding is cheap.) And it's not because of suffering (this woman was not suffering.) It's because more powerful people in her life wanted her dead.
And no, it's not "letting her die." It's making her die.
Thanks for letting me know. This is horrific news.
I understand the controversy, but due to my own experience, I have to see it from a different point of view. My mother died of the effects of years of TIA. Her condition was pretty much indistinguishable from someone who is dying from Alzheimer’s. She was hand fed a liquid diet for several years, but eventually took less and less food in that form. At the same time, she became less and less responsive. The staff at the Catholic nursing home, where she was very well cared for, advised us against inserting a feeding tube. They assured us that she would not suffer pain if this was not done.
So I am left to wonder, if it is painful for the comatose patient to be deprived of food and water when a feeding tube is withdrawn, was the staff at the Catholic nursing home lying to us when they said it would not be painful for my mother to not have a feeding tube inserted? Are there any studies on this? Because I trusted them. And she did not appear to suffer.
we cannot know what the comatose feel... but in this italian case as in terry schiavo’s case, they were vegetative as opposed to comatose...i.e. awake and aware...and dehydration and starvation is a painful way to go, read accounts of people who have been through starvation and dehydration..it’s not an easy way to go.. if right-to-die people were that concerned, then why don’t they just overdose with a sleeping aid to make it truly painless? because none of them want to take responsibility for actually causing someone to die.
Prayers for the suffering innocents.
I am completely against euthanasia...but IF WE MUST then for the love of God use drugs and make it a more merciful death. Allowing a disabled person to starve or dehydrate to death is no more natural then drugging them to death. And drugging would be far more humane.
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