Posted on 08/23/2011 1:55:48 PM PDT by topher
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, August 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recently retired New York Times reporter has penned a book in which she details how she followed through on a shocking pact to help her 88-year-old mother, Estelle, starve to death.
Julia Gross with her mother Estelle. In an excerpt from the book, “A Bittersweet Season,” published recently in the Daily Mail, Jane Gross describes her mother’s increasing dissatisfaction with life as her health deteriorated, and her mounting desire to die, despite the fact that she was not terminally ill.
“So here we were, my mother and I, wishing that she were terminally ill and feeling a bit creepy about it,” Gross writes about her conversations with her mother about her death wish.
Gross admits that there “was no pretending I hadn’t been part of her decision [to die], and had arguably even encouraged it,” but argues that she made sure that her mother, with whom she had never been particularly close, was “doing this for herself,” and not out of a desire to spare her children “trouble and expense.”
Finally, after her mother spelled out the words “N-O-W,” Gross met with staff at the hospice where her mother was being cared for, and thus began the lengthy and grueling process of her mother’s death by starvation and dehydration – a process that staff had told Gross would only last a week, but that actually lasted 13 days.
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I finally watched “Enchanted” all the way through over the weekend. It was cute as could be.
Look....my guess is that the mother and daughter were both RABID PRO-ABORTION!!!! This is the natural next act. DISGUSTING!!! Have they NO GOD in their lives?????
And the VILE dughte AACCUSED the staff of sneaking her mother ICE CUBES!!! There will be NO ice cubes in HELL for you unless you repent.
While I very much liked your post #40, I found therein no answer to the dilemma of what to do when pain control doesn’t work?
“A terminally ill person will die soon enough.” is tragically not always correct.
Why would you interpret the writer’s mother throwing all her things away as she left for college as the writer hating her mother? It sort of sounds the other way around to me.
I wasn’t advocating for euthanasia AND I’m not a guy.
I personally have a little concern, since I cannot take opiates. However, I’ll cross that bridge if and when I get to it. I would think there would be more research into pain management because I suspect THAT is the issue for most people. They may not want to die, but they don’t want to be in pain.
Let’s look at the way she described her mother’s actions...
>>The day I left for university, with my father driving me, we had not completely backed out of the driveway before she had filled the rubbish bins outside the house with my old school uniforms, boxes of the poems I had written, and other cherished possessions — now just clutter to be cleared away.<<
The picture she paints is of her mother feverishly hauling her “cherished possessions” to the trash without raising an eye to wave goodbye to her. Do you really think that if she truly loved her mom, she would describe it that way?
Maybe you don’t know too many of the lib-boomer women who, no matter what a mother did, found constant fault with her. I’ve got a sister like this. My mom wasn’t perfect (none of us are) and she was far from a touchie-feelie huggie mom. However, if you listen to my sister describe my mom and the stories of her childhood, you would think that she lived in a different house from the rest of us with another mom.
I see drama queen. I see resentment for her mother. I see a woman that was just as happy to give mom the boot because she felt mom booted her too. She hated her mother. Read the article. There is not a bit of love in the description of the lady she dehydrated to death.
I knew you’d like it!
I loved the climax, even with Tom, Leader of the Nerd Pack, diagnosing the structural flaws in the dragon.
LOL!
Watching movies around here is an Adventure in Learning. Want to know about the wing-surface to body-mass ratio? I didn’t. “It’s computer-generated, you nuisance!”
She’ll be on the Daily Kos Wall of Fame soon.
Notice how fans of suicide always direct it at others rather than at themselves?
It’s like better than “Teaching With Movies”!
Oh, yes. When you get my family and its bizarre enthusiasms together, every movie is a multidisciplinary course, and a penance, too ;-).
The woman who helped her mother die sounds like she may not understand the aging process and how that can affect the emotional and mental condition of the elderly. She should have seen to it that her mother had gotten help from her private physician immediately if she was talking of suicide. She shouldn’t have to have given it a second thought.
If your loved one is talking of suicide, you do everything to stop them.
[See Luke 16:19-31]
Oh, how the children of Fatima were frightened by the images of hell...
It is always wise to let God take a person's life -- as God knows what a person might need at death to enter the kingdom of God...
I am very disturbed to hear the actor Patrick Stewart saying he would like to end his life. He feels he is now useless...
So many misguided people in this day and age...
From your post, it appears otherwise. We euthanize pets in terminal cases where quality of life is gone. That’s what you’re saying we ought to do, as that is the ‘care’ we provide pets in order to spare them a lingering painful death. No matter if you qualify it or not, the next part of your statement totally negates your qualification.
And this woman wasn’t even terminal, to try to compare a terminal pet to a non-terminal woman and use that argument to say ‘we ought to provide this for people’ - with a non-terminal case - is comparing apples to oranges.
And my mistake for calling you ‘guy’, it is here nor there in terms of what’s being discussed.
Patrick could open up an actor’s workshop or teach acting somewhere, I would bet there are a lot of people who’d like to have him help them be better actors.
The bundle of joy will be arriving some time next April ... they JUST found out. ;)
I’m making a public prediction... it’ll be a boy. Just my “feeling”. Heck, I thought she already WAS pregnant last week...and I had NO reason to feel that way.
Stay tuned! :)
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