My wife’s
mother is in critical condition in a Boston hospital. She is ninety years old and has been in the
hospital a number of times over the last year, and has been in constant pain and
discomfort. She has a serious infection
and without treatment can only last two or three days. She
has told the doctors and her family she wishes to die.
The only
option in Massachusetts it to ‘keep her comfortable’ and let the infection
eventually shut down her systems.
Our first
cat I loved very much. He was in
terrible pain and I took him to the vet to be euthanized. I held
him as the vet injected the serum and the cat relaxed and died instantly in my
arms.
Why can’t a
human have the same humane option?
A number of
years ago my aunt, in her nineties, suffered a massive stroke. She was in a vegetative state. Her daughter had to make the decision to pull
the feeding tubes and allow her to die.
A person can
last a couple of months without food, but a healthy person only five or six
days without water. But, dehydration is
a terrible way to die; and what a terrible thing for the daughter to have to
stand the ‘death watch’ while her mother’s body shut down.
Now my wife’s
brother and sisters are standing the ‘death watch.’ What a cruel thing for the mother and the
family.
This
prohibition against euthanasia is Christian religious bullshit based – a form
of Christian sharia law that has been imposed on the public and affects us
without our consent.
the Ol’Buzzard
