Had you heard about this?

It's tough for me to move on from the Schiavo case.  Eventually I will.  But when I come across this kind of... crap... well, I feel an obligation to let people know...  sue me:

Years before he categorized Terri Schindler Schiavo in the persistent vegetative state, which led to her death by dehydration, neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford was building the case for removing feeding tubes from society’s vulnerable.

"…The United States has thousands or tens of thousands of patients in vegetative states; nobody knows for sure exactly how many," Cranford wrote in a 1997 Minneapolis Star Tribune opinion piece titled: When a feeding tube borders on the barbaric. (WorldNetDaily. Com, March 23, 2005). "But before long, this country will have several million patients with Alzheimer’s dementia. The challenges and costs of maintaining vegetative state patients will pale in comparison to the problems presented by Alzheimer’s disease.

"The answer, he suggested, was physician-assisted suicide."

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Alleged to have participated in states like California without courtesy of a legal license, Cranfeld openly applauds European values that embrace euthanasia. Countries like Belgium, where experts believe that 10 percent of all deaths now result from euthanasia or by drugs administered by doctors to hasten death.

The neurologist, who is a member of the board of directors of the Choice in Dying Society, worries how modern medicine offers a great potential for prolonging a dehumanizing existence for the patient.

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He blames "right-to-lifers" and "disability groups" for discouraging families from making the choice for euthanasia.

Cranford, right-to-die attorney George Felos and Florida circuit Judge George Greer are the three amigos, whose successful mission to deprive Terri Schiavo of food and water, ended in her death.

Doesn't all this make you feel even more conmfortable about what happened to Terri Schiavo?

Hat tip to David Limbaugh for the info.

Comments

[stephanie]

Rick, Anj over at Living on Both Ends referred me to some great articles she found that have really helped me understand more on this. Not that I "understand" it but it gave me more info which was helpful.

[Rick]

Stef,

Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier...

I've read some of Anj's links that seem to rationalize Terri's killing...

I think them to be pitching what what snake oil salesmen used to pitch...

The culture of death is most insidious to me because they are so capable of making something horrible sound like something other than horrible...

Terri was murdered. It's really that plain, really that simple, and I'll never "understand" those who attempt to rationalize as good something that is so obviously evil.