Why was T[erry] Schiavo killed in such an inhumane way?
Some MORON on GLP wrote:Apologies if this has been posted and discussed ad infinitum before. I would just like some answers on this issue that I feel did not receive the attention it deserved, while T was being killed from thirst and starvation.
Why did they not kill her in a humane way such as from a morphine overdose or some such? Why was she made to suffer for so long? What was the point?
You can agree or disagree with the decision to kill her as punishment for having a terminal disease. The issue I would like to discuss is why did it have to be done in such a cruel way?
Apparently some people think this was a unique occurrence. That Terry Schiavo was the only person permitted to pass away in the fashion. Not hardly!
Every day in hospices all across this country patients have feeding tubes removed. In many cases, if not most, the decision to remove a feeding tube was made by the patient through a Living Will and therefore not a burden suffered by the family during an already tragic time. In other cases decisions like this are made by a family member or family as a group. Rarely, the choice may even be made by medical personnel and override choices made by the family to sustain care.
How ever the choice is made, the choice is made often. The only differecnce in the Terry Schiavo case was the media attention it received.