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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First of all - when my blinders were first lifted, and I realized the news networks were controlled by the NYT (I have heard and read escapees from NYT reveal they would pick up the paper, and decide what stories would be on the evening news that day) - I realized how much mind control and SOCIETY CONTROL this paper has.
How is it possible that starvation can be painless? Anybody out there gone from an early dinner on Friday night to a late breakfast on Saturday morning? Yes, the hunger pangs do eventually subside, and things begin to slow down and stop - one at a time - but to what level of pain can anyone who has not experienced it, contribute it to?
It's like newborns who are circimsized. Doctors claim it is quick, doesn't hurt, and the pain memory is gone immediately. How do they know? Can they remember their circumcision as an infant?
Everyone has a different threshold of pain. Some women can go through natural childbirth and have a 9 lb. baby. Me? I was screaming for the epidural and both of mine were around 8 lbs.
The following is my entry to "Christian Wives of Firefighters Board" for today. I wanted to share it with all of you, and those that are able - mention this to your pastors as you attend services today. May God Bless you all.
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"Today, Congress will be coming together to make a precedent setting action - should people who cannot speak for themselves be protected by the courts and allowed to live?
Terri Schiavo has been battling for life for 15 years. Her husband, who has abandoned her, has a common law marriage with another woman and two children - wants Terri to die. He will then inherit all of the money left in trust for Terri from a previous malpractice suit.
The Bill in the Senate came through quickly , and now it rests on the shoulders of the House - to push the Bill through. President Bush is in D.C. today - waiting at a moments notice to sign this Bill, which will hopefully force the courts to replace the tube which was removed on Friday.
What I am asking today, girls, is for all of you to pray that God's will be done. This woman has hung on for 15 years - He apparently wants her around for something.
Let us pray His will be done, Terri find strength to survive without the tube until things can be resolved, and that the all of the House will come together today and do the MORAL thing - allow God to do what HE sees fit - not what judges sees fit.
Please Pray, email your State Representatives if you haven't already, and stay vigilant with this issue.
May God Bless you all, on this First day of Spring. Kimberly"
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And may we all pray that Terri is around to see Spring come again, Next Year. Pray , Pray, Pray
The New York Times would attempt to justify the Holocaust if it fit within their world view.
They are revolting human beings.
The New York Times = Mouthpiece for Murder
We can only pray.
Isn't this what Michael Jackson said too?
Ask the veterans from WW2 who were POWs if it wasnt painful or not.
Oh thats right! I forgot! The NY Slimes doesnt recognize veterans as human beings. My bad...
If the monster who killed Jessica should attempt to starve himself to death,now that we have been informed how painless that is, by lying expert sonovab*tch*s in that field, he should be force fed and kept alive to die in old sparky, without the wet sponge as the one guy got it in the Green Mile.
These doctors who say starving and doing w/out water is "not painful" depend on dosing the patient w/liberal doses of morphine to make it not painful. They themselves should be required to undergo 2 weeks w/out water and food in order to make their statements creditable.
I would like to see a demonstration of starvation by the so called doctors and those at the NYT who want Terri dead.
They should not object if is so peaceful.
The level of rationalization is incredible.
Could you imagine going more than a day without water? I can't imagine more than a few hours.
The NYT's would quickly point out a stopped clock using military time is only right once a day.
More lecturing from our betters in the "fact-based community". Only they get to choose the facts.
I did that for two single days in wrestling. And I told myself that I would never do it again and thankfully I didn't.
In Army Basic, they FORCE you to drink water, or at least they did when I went through in 1998.
Wrestling coaches are realizing that the kids won't drink water if they aren't told too. All the kids will focus on is what the scale says.
I never went more than an hour in Iraq without water or kool aid or gatorade.
You have made a great point. Almost half of this country has taken on the values and ideology of the NAZIs. No country ever in history has done well once they have adopted a culture of death.
I can see death by dehydration very easy in an environment like Iraq. If I was a soldier there, I'd be concerned about available water and things like gatorade than food.
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