That actually reminded me of Kevin Carter's photo which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. It's too graphic to post here. This will do.
Very true!
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Preparing us for ObamaCare’s death panels. The elderly just don’t have the “quality of life” that merits having them hanging around. Wonder if this hideous daughter inherited anything in the bargain? Life insurance should not pay benefits for this kind of suicide.
this happens all the time....but isn’t labeled anything and no one writes a book about it.
this woman was 88....not an otherwise healthy 50-year-old.
my father waved away food and drink towards the end. his body was done. giving fluids or other nourishment when the body is thinking about shutting down does more harm than good...and causes pain.
my father died at home with family around.
I am a firm believer in embracing the death that God brings you. Leaving this world is harder for some than others. There is a reason for it even if we don’t understand it.
good gawd what is happening to the human race?
I always understood starvation was an agonizing death. Can you imagine sitting there and watching your mother die through your conscious inaction?
That actually reminded me of Kevin Carter's photo which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. It's too graphic to post here. This will do.
Very true!
Both of my parents died from battling cancer long term. My mother died because she (an RN) hid her ovarian cancer symptoms far too long and my father died (prostate cancer) of her dying. However, exactly none of we six kids were twitching with impatience and we profoundly and tearfully celebrated their lives and thanked them as best as we could at their deathbeds and at the funerals for all that they had done for each one of us.
My wife was profoundly influenced by my mother and while she does not resemble her in size, shape, or personality, she recognized all the best in her, and has taken that best to her heart.
As for me, I am the lesser son of greater sires...
Several people have commented on this thread without having bothered to read the original post. They are equating natural death with a calculated decision to starve and dehydrate someone to death when she wasn’t otherwise dying.
The staff that went along with her all deserve prison at least and were it up to me they'd live on nothing but bread and water for the balance of their lives. This is conspiracy to commit murder and murder for hire (payment of accomplices to not intervene has been held to be equivalent to murder for hire given the equality of guilt in a first degree murder) if anyone were to pursue it but no, people these days will buy her book and sympathize then start planning the murder of those they find inconvenient.
“Individuals, families, medical professionals, and our society’s institutions have a pressing moral duty to reform our failing systems of care for the fragile old and dying. Jane Gross’s excellent book can help us do better on all these fronts.”
I agree that there is something seriously wrong with a system that allows tens of thousands of people to slowly waste away in a nursing home and act as a drain on society.
Ideally everyone ought to be active or at least somewhat active to the end and then die of something quick and relatively painless (naturally; I didn’t say euthanize people). There is absolutely no reason for anybody to suffer a slow, horrible end where their faculties leave them one-by-one.
I accused staff of sneaking her ice cubes when my back was turned.
She wasn’t starved to death, she was dehydrated to death. How pleasant. If it took 13 days someone probably was sneaking ice cubes to her. Bravo to them
See Jane. See Jane murder her mom. Kill, Jane, kill.
But then write a book about watching every detail and confessing your twitching, to make it easier for other soccer moms to take the next step in their development. After all, as long as talking points are provided to the group, anything can be accomplished.
Absolutely anything.
Her mother wasn’t even terminally ill.
Vile.
