[Freepertwo]

I've been reading stories similar to Terri's on another FR thread. This happens much more often that I'd realized...and to people who are talking, painting pictures, smiling, reading, communicating, have good diagnoses from their doctors and who PLAINLY say in english that they want to live. It is usually a spouse trying to murder the brain damaged person while the family struggles to keep them out of their clutches...but the courts tend to side with those who want them dead. Hugh Finn comes to mind, among others.

It...is...time...to...stop...this...demonic...trend...!!!

[FR_addict]

I agree. We need to stop this.

Right now though Terri's life is the one in most jeopardy.

One life at a time. After we save Terri, I hope to remain active in the fight to save the disable from unscrupulous relatives and uncaring politicians writing bad laws.

[TAdams8591]

TErri's situation seems to be an often repeated scenario, and yes the courts seem to side with those who want the patient dead. It's frightening.

[supercat]

This happens much more often that I'd realized...and to people who are talking, painting pictures, smiling, reading, communicating, have good diagnoses from their doctors and who PLAINLY say in english that they want to live.

Terri's not the first such person to be put to death. She's the first one to put up such a strong refusal to die.

[MarMema]

Ooh, I love a fellow convert.

Marjorie Nighbert

As she was slowly dehydrating to death, Marjorie began to ask the staff for food and water. In response to her pleas, members of the nursing staff surreptitiously gave her small amounts. One distraught staffer eventually blew the whistle, leading to a state investigation and a temporary restraining order requiring that Marjorie be nourished......the judge ruled that the dehydration should be completed, apparently on the theory that Marjorie did not have the competence to request the medical treatment of food and water. Before an appalled Stone could appeal, Nighbert died on April 6, 1995.

[MarMema]

It...is...time...to...stop...this...demonic...trend...!!!

I used to keep on my FR page a listing of all those I found who had been killed like this by family. There were a lot.

If you ask around, you will likely find what I did, that people you work with and had always found to be good people, have done this to Grandma or Aunt Bessie. Mostly because of Alzheimers or dementia in old age.

A coworker of mine recently had her mother hospitalized for dehydration, and was puzzled when they kept her mother and did not send her back to the nursing home. She had been re-hydrated. Then a "hospice worker" showed up, and explained to the family that the mother had Alzheimers and could not swallow.
After that it's all an old story for you by now. I asked her for specific details and she admitted to me that one night was very bad, the pain appeared to be unbearable and they were pretty much unable to make her mother comfortable. After that it went well though, she said.

You think this is gruesome? try reading this and then eating dinner
If you have never had a heart rate of 160 for several days in a row, believe me, it would be a very uncomfortable experience. I think this was one of the most evil things I have read. They made her death into a documentary, with a good chance she could hear them and understand what they were saying. The nazis have little on us now, imo.

Ok I will leave you alone now. Thanks for listening and learning. It's a big, big picture.