NY Times: Starvation Death Not Painful

NewsMax.com ^ | March 20, 2005 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[sweetliberty]

I never knew that the NYT had expertise in death by starvation....well, unless you include mental starvation.

[eccentric]

"In fact, declining food and water is a common way that terminally ill patients end their lives, because it is less painful than violent suicide and requires no help from doctors," the paper maintains.

notice the word TERMINALLY It is Not the same as Chronicly nor disabled. TERMINALLY ill people loose their appetite. So do non-terminally ill people, but Brain-dead doctors need to stop judging the appetite of others, especially those who are NOT TERMINALLY ill!

[festus]

Precisely my thoughts. Talk or we won't give you any water in cuba in the sunshine. We might give you food. Hot peppers until you talk then something better if you cooperate.

[festus]

Someone called in to Fox and Friends a few minutes ago with pretty much the same angle.

Poving once and for all that some people will believe ANYTHING.......

[bvw]

Hooray that you saw that too!

[bvw]

You are right. A very important distinction too.

[octobersky]

"Who in his right mind would believe the New York Times anymore? Not me."
--Dean Koontz, Frankenstein Book One Prodigal Son, page 344

I love Dean Koontz.

[VadeRetro]

OK, the libs have decided that starvation may be the one humane, non-cruel-and-unusual way a person may die. We should perhaps make starvation an execution option if too many people object to lethal injection. Quite a few death-penalty activists so object. These people have already been heard on a number of matters. After all, we can't hang, shoot, garotte, stone, or guillotine because of them. But starvation doesn't hurt a bit. They're going on record now as believing this.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Yes, but what do the statistics actually show about which population segment contracts the disease more...



The gay population was the huge majority of AIDS cases in the early days. That is why those in the medical field assumed that it was related to homosexual activity. It was only when it was actually identified as a virus did they dispel their earlier assertions.

[Mike Darancette]

"From the data that is available, it is not a horrific thing at all,"

Millions of starving Africans can take this message to heart.

[Paleo Conservative]

[rabidralph]

Based on the Times' logic, we should withdraw all support for ending world hunger and Scott Peterson should be released from jail.