But, but, but, the mainstream media reported and assured us that it was not painful. Michael Schiavo and his attorney, Geroge Felos, said it is a "painless" and "beatiful"
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Elizabeth Bouvia (1), a mentally competent 28-ear-old quadriplegic, with cerebral palsy, capable of speech and able to move her fingers on one hand, simply wanted to die. While she was capable of eating, she had a feeding tube inserted to supplement her nutritional intake. The court ruled in her favor stating that by refusing food and water Elizabeth had "merely resigned herself to accept an earlier death..."
The California court of appeals ordered the physicians to remove the tube (2) and argued that she had the right to enlist the assistance of others in ending her life (Sprung, 1990, p. 2213).
The feeding tubes were removed,(3) but she did not die, and she remains alive as of 2002.
Ms Bouvia indicated then that she still wanted to die, but, after receiving pain control for secondary diagnoses, the process of starvation proved too physically painful to carry out. (4)
We must immediately change the laws to make this the official form of execution in the U.S.
Prisoner are always grumbling about old-fashioned electric chairs, firing squads, hangings, poison gas and lethal injections. This is much better. It's painless, it's beautiful and they get to stay alive another, oh, thirteen days.