Saturday, March 3, 2012

Pulling the Plug?

My Father was not on "life support" as most would conceive of it, only intravenous hydration and a feeding tube through which he was nourished. Vanderbilt took away those very basics of human survival, thereby causing death faster. If we had starved and dehydrated Dad to death in the home, we would rightly be facing prison. The recent Liz Klimas article in The Blaze on Australian ethicists pondering killing babies after birth ends with a statement on the ethically-accepted and common practice of dehydrating the persistently unconscious to death. My Father was not unconscious, in fact he was lucid Saturday before Vanderbilt finished him off on Sunday.

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