The doctor is also right --- but so damn passive, imo -- about what the Schindler-Schiavo case and the hospice's care there meant. It means that no longer do hospices have to care tenderly (while treating symptoms only, not curing, just alleviating discomfort) for their charges while waiting for the nigh-certain death.
A new modality: agressively accelerating death and not so tenderly either. No chipped ice. Pull the bladder tube along with the feeding tube. Welcome the speed of self-poisoning, drying and cracking under dehydration and damn any though of pain and discomfort so caused. Full speed ahead. Turn thouse beds over! Next!
Arbeit Macht Frei!
And free is the author to turn his head back to his works. A passing comment as to the smoke from the smokestacks and back to the styes to throw out the afternoon slop.
The hospice in which Terri lived acted very un-hospice like in the end IMO. And I recall reading that there was some funny business with the hospice, that it had an affiliation with Felos, and others not very objective, nor interested in the POV of the Schindler family. But they only followed the courts mandates. I am not in the position to debate Terri's neurological condition. I do believe that back when, when she lost over 60 lbs., she very well may have lost so much potassium, that she had a heart attack. My objection to the way the case was handled always had to do with her husband's agenda, and my belief that he just wanted to move on in his life, and she stood in the way. I thought he forfeited his right to make that life and death decision. I also didn't like the way some "moderate" so-called GOPers turned on the rest of us, on DeLay, Krauthammer, and others who took the side of the Schindlers. But in the end, it revealed much about them. And PS, when I referred to spitting clowns, it didn't refer to this site.