« Quote for the day ... | Main | 'Where are the white women at?' »
July 30, 2005
Death default -- couldn't happen, right?
I had two major points in the Terri Shaivo case ...
1)In the absense of any definitive, written wishes (ie living will) and where all parties are in agreement of further medical treatment, the court should rule for life. In the Shaivo case, care of Terri should have been given to the party willing to care for her until such time she died a natural death.
2)Food and water do not constitute "extraordinary" care.
Well, it appears that in England, if one is terminally ill, you don't have any say in your care at the end of your life. Indeed, the The Right to Life has be abrogated.
The General Medical Council has won its appeal against a ruling allowing a terminally ill man to stop doctors withdrawing his feeding tube.Lesley Burke did not want doctors to stop giving him food and water in the final stages of his illness ...Of course, why should Mr. Burke worry? At that point he will be, according to certain people, not human anymore and his alleged "pain" while dying of thirst will ::::poof:::: not exist. No real human should suffer him to live.Mr Burke, of Newton Estate in Lancaster, had feared reaching the point where, unable to communicate, he would be denied food and water and would take two to three weeks to die of starvation or thirst.
Ah, the easy conscience and answers of nihilism!
Posted by Darleen at July 30, 2005 01:54 PM