The NY Times have always been proponents of the starvation of innocents for political purposes.
Posted on 03/20/2005 5:15:38 AM PST by MisterRepublican
The newspaper that was most outraged over photos of Iraqi terrorist suspects being mistreated by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison said Sunday that the two week-long starvation-execution of Terri Schiavo will cause her "little discomfort."
"From the data that is available, it is not a horrific thing at all," Dr. Linda Emanuel, the founder of the Education for Physicians in End-of-Life Care Project at Northwestern University tells the New York Times.
"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.
The Times also cites Dr. Sean Morrison, a professor of geriatrics and palliative care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, who insists that starvation victims "generally slip into a peaceful coma."
"It's very quiet, it's very dignified - it's very gentle," he adds.
Other experts not quoted by the Times, however, disagree.
Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, says that in fact, for a conscious patient like Terri Schiavo, death by starvation will be fraught with agony.
In his book "Forced Exit, The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder," Smith reports:
"A conscious person would feel it [dehydration] just as you and I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack.
"They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucous membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining."
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This is so outrageously stupid and evil
that it just might start a revolution...
absolutely.
At least now we know how the left plans to fix social security ...
if you can't feed yourself .....
The audience listened attentively but with grim looks. After he was done, Linda Vester asked the audience if they felt that Terry's feeding tube should be removed. ALL answered "NO!" very loudly!
Then an Irish man asked Dr. Morrison if he would recommend giving Terry a lethal injection. Dr. Morrison said, "No, of course not."
Irish guy then said, "Oh, then you're just playing with words, aren't you?"
Miss Marple hereby states to all who read this: DO NOT TREAT ME AT MT. SINAI!!!
It should not be necessary to stop the murder of Terri Schiavo to make up fairy tales about the course of terminal dehydration.
It's what the phrase "natural death" means, and when the time comes, it's clearly the way to go (considering the alternatives).
The next time some looney goes on a hunger strike protesting something do you think the Times will whip this article out?
Well if it's not painful let's strip death row inmates of the right to lethal injection and starve them to death. Anyone want to gamble on how long before the NYT's raises hell?
This is a blatant lie! As testified by the women who was in a coma, (she was on Hannity) it was extremely painful!!!
This guy was on Fox the other night, O'Reilly I think. Pure death cultist.
THE 'VAST LIFE-WING CONSPIRACY' AGAINST MICHAEL SCHIAVO [FR Link page]
[Several FReepers have helped to make it a great research page. ]
FReegards....
As the federal court appeals process on the 'right to live' is denied to Terri Schiavo so that she can 'slip into a peaceful coma' and die, so then should all capital murder convicts sitting on death row be treated the same. Lock the cells and starve them. They don't need no stinkin federal appeals process either!!!!!!!!!
Why isn't NYT packaged as in the same format as toilet paper? Subscribing might be cheaper than buying Charmin.
If Starvation is such a merciful way to murder an innocent and helpless woman, we are morally bound to begin using starvation as the humane way of executing convicted murderers. Just lock them in a cell on death row and forget they are there until the smell becomes unbearable-then cremate what is left.
Someone posted a while back, that the Chiavo's had only been married for five months when this incident with Teri occured. Anyone know if that is true?
The NYT raises hell about the terrible pain the criminal experiences when the needle is placed in his arm.
Dr. Death contact info:
http://directory.mssm.edu/faculty/facultyInfo.php?id=24934&deptid=14
Rolfe Sean Morrison, M.D.
Professor, Geriatrics And Adult Development
Professor, Medicine
E-mail: sean.morrison@mssm.edu
Tel: (212) 241-1466
Fax: (212) 860-9737
Does this mean there will be no more fund raisers for starving people in (you fill in the blank). I guess there is no need to send food or medicine any where in the world.
"It's very quiet, it's very dignified - it's very gentle," he adds.
So now we know why people like that have no problem ignoring man-made famines like those of Stalin or Ethiopia or just about any other famine in the modern world.
Yes, but what do the statistics actually show about which population segment contracts the desease more...
That was the point.
Good point. Wouldn't it be nice if society (the courts especially) had their priorities in order?
John Couey should be the one starved to death, while Terri is the one who is rehabilitated.
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