Euthanasia 2
A Case for Active Euthanasia You hope the day never comes. Your spouse has been in ICU for three weeks, and the doctor has told you there is severe irreversible brain damage. The family is called for a meeting with the doctor to make a very hard decision. All options are addressed. The decision is made to remove all IV’s, feeding tubes, and the ventilator. Weepy and grief-stricken, you sign a consent form, and sit by the bed for a day or two as your spouse passes away peacefully. This is not what really happens. Removing food and water from someone in a hopeless situation is not putting them out of their misery. Instead it’s putting them into misery, the misery of dying in an excruciating manner. Dying this way could not possibly be considered a peaceful death. It can take five to twenty-one days for someone to die of dehydration after the IV’s and feeding tubes are removed. In that time, the mouth dries out, the tongue becomes swollen, eyes sink back into their sockets, and the lining of the nose cracks and bleeds. Also, urine becomes concentrated and burns the bladder, the stomach lining dries out which causes vomiting, hypothermia develops, brain cells begin to dry out which causes convulsions, and the respiratory tract dries o
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Approximate Word count = 959
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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