As someone in the medical profession, I know that stopping feeding and hydration occurs rather frequently. The long death vigil then begins. The family suffers two weeks of mental torture. The patient, those who claim to know say, "feels nothing".
I honestly don't know what the patient feels.
Maybe they don't feel anything. Maybe, in between the bouts of morphine drip induced sleep, they wake up to a semi-conscious state where they feel a raging thirst before drifting off again.
I have come to a conclusion about what I want at the end of life and it is not to be starved or dehydrated to death. If I am to be killed, I want to killed by turning up the morphine drip.
If society is going to decide to terminate life, then society should be up front about it. If you are going to do it, then do it quickly and humanely.
We don't starve dogs to death at the pound. My choice, when I go, is that I want to be treated as least as well as a dog.
If society is going to decide to terminate life, then society should be up front about it. If you are going to do it, then do it quickly and humanely.
We don't starve dogs to death at the pound. My choice, when I go, is that I want to be treated as least as well as a dog.
Thank you for saying this. Not enough people here understand what it's like to literally starve to death.
Forgive me if I think that those who advocate doing so to Terri aren't really interested if she would suffer as a result.