Will you be starved and dehydrated to death?
Terri Schiavo was deliberately starved and dehydrated to death in a Florida hospice after a protracted court battle was waged to determine her fate. She died March 31, 2005. In the wake of this high profile case, people are being urged to complete written advance directives specifying their wishes regarding medical treatment in the event they are no longer able to make medical decisions. The assumption is that having an advance directive will assure that a person's wishes will be respected. This is not necessarily so.
Increasingly, health care providers are disregarding patients' advance directives which specifically ask for life-sustaining measures, including provision of food and fluids.
Why should this concern you? Because, an unfamiliar doctor or hospital ethics committee could decide, based on their opinion of your "quality of life", that you no longer merit medical treatment or food and fluids - even though you or your family disagrees.
The "right to die" movement has set the stage for the sick, disabled, and elderly to be intentionally killed by withholding from them the basic necessities for sustaining life. The "right to die" has evolved into a "duty to die."
How did this happen? And what can you do to protect yourself and others? -
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