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Richard Routh, 42, was hospitalized with head injuries after a motorcycle accident. He had learned to signal "yes" and "no," could smile and laugh at jokes, when his parents and doctors decided to have him starved. A nurse's aide says that as they stood by the bedside discussing the starvation decision, Routh shook his head "no." Though the coroner's report says he dies of head injuries, he had lost thirty pounds during the hospitalization. The autopsy showed that he had not been given painkillers to ease the pain of starvation.
2,842 posted on 02/22/2005 9:05:33 PM PST by MarMema ("America may have won the battles, but the Nazis won the war." Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall)
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Thanks for those really nice posts on others who have been in a similar situation to Terri. I hope and pray that ehr fate i better than thiers. The articles you posted the link to were very good.


3,019 posted on 02/23/2005 10:11:49 AM PST by ExPatInFrance
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