Scotland?
How about here! My father had a stroke that left him unable to speak orswallow( this was before Katrina at THE biggest hospital here) and a doctor suggested that I let him STARVE instead of putting in a feeding tube. He said it would take about a week and it was painless, he would just ‘weaken and go easy’! I told him he should work in a funeral parlor, since he was more interested in death than life.
I authorized the feeding tube. I saw it as no different than using a plastic spoon to feed my father- an instrument , no different than feeding someone paralyzed who couldn’t feed themselves.
The doctor was amazed that I didn’t think witholding food was a humane way of ‘letting my dad go’.
Intentionally letting someone starve is MURDER. No different than locking them in a basement and not feeding them.
The attitude is HERE, people, in our doctors and our hospitals. If you don’t think so- wait till you have an elderly loved one need treatment.
That was 2004. My dad lived for a year with the feeding tube-evacuating for Katrina and coming back to this pest hole killed him. But the doctors wanted him dead because of his age!
Just curious....was your father mentally alert? To the best of his ability considering the stroke?
Thanks for posting this.
I am well aware that this same barbarity is far more common in America than most people know.