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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (77619)10/16/2003 7:04:34 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
It is a pretty upsetting scenario, charged as it is with a husband who took the medical malpractice money and then placed a DNR on his wife, and is at odds with parents and siblings, and a patient who seems to show a minimal reaction that might or might not be involuntary, but is not in a clearcut PVS (persistent vegetative state).

Personally, I would not want to live like that. PVS sounds better than what this is. She can follow a balloon with her eyes, she can maybe smile.
The parents say that she can still be taught to swallow with therapy.

This does not strike me as a quality of a life that I want my family to pour their resources into, or the taxpayer for that matter. Still starving and dehydrating a person to death is just- inhumane. I watched my mother die like that- and it's not an easy death. As someone asked, why not just shoot her and get it over with? This is nicer?

These are the unanswerable questions we get when we find we can keep people alive interminably with feeding tubes, by technical means.
We can-- but do we want to?
I am going to talk to Dan about all this. It's the sort of thing we all avoid. You are so wise to have taken care of it.
Although I do think you are a terrible person to eat the food off his plate like that. After all, your life is in his hands. You want him well-fed and happy with you.
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