To: general_re
But if she had stated while standing on her feet "I now want to starve myself to death" she would have been whisked off to the looney bin. Somehow her disability makes that better!
2,656 posted on
03/31/2005 10:01:40 PM PST by
The Red Zone
(Go to Florida, the sun-shame state, to be schiavoed, to greer someone, and to felos a patient.)
To: The Red Zone
One of life's little ironies, more or less. If she were perfectly healthy and simply decided to stop eating, she'd probably be committed. It's a bit different for those we judge to be in bad shape, though - for them, we tend to let them decide for themselves whether or not they'd like to hang on.
2,657 posted on
03/31/2005 10:04:15 PM PST by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: The Red Zone
"But if she had stated while standing on her feet "I now want to starve myself to death" she would have been whisked off to the looney bin. Somehow her disability makes that better!"
Excellent point. It is worth repeating. Dehydration is the ultimate inhuman barbarity.
2,658 posted on
03/31/2005 10:04:49 PM PST by
Monterrosa-24
(Technology advances. Human nature is dependably stagnant.)
To: The Red Zone
"But if she had stated while standing on her feet "I now want to starve myself to death" she would have been whisked off to the looney bin. Somehow her disability makes that better!"
End of life decision making. It happens all the time. Do you want to make it against the law for someone to deny medical service to themselves?
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