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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (99439)	3/24/2005 6:34:10 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

My understanding is that patients die constantly in America when families decide to discontinue food and water. The only reason this one became a controversy is that her husband and family disagreed. I think it is a very normal event for terminal patients and those in persistent vegetative states. I posted an article with research in it yesterday re starvation at the end of life being painless. This is not a partisan article but a medical one. Did you read it? Message 21163311 I know that my mother decided to stop eating near the end of her battle with pancreatic cancer, after she had had a nice final visit with all her family members. It was quite deliberate on her part. Death took a couple of weeks. She was on some pain medication, I believe, for the cancer. She was asleep the whole time and sleeping very peacefully. We played classical music to her and talked to her and held her hand. As I pointed out in a post sometime ago, animals and humans who choose to die or instinctively know it is their time stop eating and drinking. I think this must be part of nature. I can't open that site you posted at work--it's blocked. I will try to remember to look at it at home, although tonight I'm planning on going to bed immediately so I can get over this flu or whatever it is.