--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, m2smart4u2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Damn, shoot her in the head if you have to, but to > > > > > torture her to death by starvation is really sick. > > > > > > > > I don't see it as any more sick than having kept her "alive" > on a > > > > feeding tube for 15+ years. > > > > I've watched 2 people with advanced terminal illness die by > choosing > > to disconnect from their tubes and in neither case was there any > sign > > of pain, in fact the psychology seemed to improve as they gradually > > passed over, in fact 1 person who had been taking morphine stopped > > near the end. I don't know the medical science of this but I don't > > think this way of ending it involves extra suffering. > > > > > >It may have been discussed before, but, if the girl's parents > want > > > to take charge of her situation, if they want to administer some > > > kind of therapy, why should they not be allowed to do this. Why > > > can't the husband simply divorce her and move on. Who cares if > she > > > will ever progress or not. They want to keep her alive. What > skin > > > does the husband need to have in the game at this point. I > suspect > > > it's something other than trying to fulfill her unwritten but > > > suppossedly expressed wish to not be kept alive in this fashion. > > > > If my wife told me and her best friends that she did not want to be > > kept alive in this way, then I would try to fulfill her wishes out > of > > respect and love - it's the parents who seem to have some other > agenda > > of their own. > > A good friend's father had a stroke and was clearly not going to > improve. He couldn't talk or do anything on his own. The prognosis > was not good and the man was old. The doctors asked the > family, "would you like us to give morphine?" The implication was > that the increase in morphine would not only ease his pain but speed > up the death process. The family agreed to this, stayed close and > said their good byes. I think there is alot of unrecorded > euthanasia. The problems seem to arise when there is objection or > disagrement about allowing someone to die. Clearly we wouldn't allow > a distraught person to end their life. Who can determine what is > right or wrong for another person? That is really the situation. > Everyone has an opinion on someobdy else's life choices.Everyone is > playing God, especially the government. From this side of the > spectrum, death seems like such a big deal. Maybe from a broader > perspective, it is no big deal. > My own grandfather had prostrate cancer. The cancer was advanced. > The family could handle that he was going to die. We thought, "just > let him have his dignity" BUT NOOO, the doctors then wanted to cut > him up as much as possible, prolong a life that was now into > suffering. He didn't need to live another few weeks like that all > disorientated and miserable, walking around some hospital. There was > that book "something ...down under" about the aboriginies in > Australia, and these people chose their own death time, had a party, > said good bye, sat in lotus and left the body.
********* A meditating physician in Fairfield told me that at one hospital where he worked, some doctors were fascinated in keeping alive babies born with no brain (anencephaly) http://www.anencephalie-info.org/e/faq.htm#faqe1 In an age of low consciousness, when people think that the self is the body, a fascination with mere technical details of life is not uncommon, but what a waste of life and time! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
