Post by toejam on Mar 30, 2005 2:56:52 GMT -8
3/28/2005
By Jan LaRue, Chief Counsel
The advocates of “evolving standards of decency” at the Supreme Court should love it.
Call me a logical extremist, but I expect very soon to see a great demonstration in the nation’s capital demanding that the death penalty be limited to execution by starvation. It follows logically from what the media have been spoon-feeding us about the euphoria-induced state the terminally ill supposedly experience when they are starving to death.
But, some will say, few death row inmates are terminally ill, so it doesn’t apply. Terri Schiavo has no terminal illness, but that didn’t stop the euthanasia enthusiasts from applying the theory to her. That’s where logic leads to even when you start from a false premise.
The editorial boards of The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times should be leading the “mercy march” followed by the diverse devotees of death who’ve been telling the rest of us know-nothings to stop fretting about Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered starvation death. “It’s not cruel, inhumane and agonizing. It’s euphoric. Chill out.”
“Once food and water stop, death usually comes in about two weeks, and is caused by effects of dehydration, not the loss of nutrition,” said Dr. Sean Morrison, a professor of geriatrics and palliative care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. “They generally slip into a peaceful coma,” he said. “It’s very quiet, it’s very dignified—it’s very gentle” (John Schwartz, The New York Times, March 20, 2005, p. 29). Has this guy ever tried the grapefruit diet?
Three days later, the Times published an article by Nicholas D. Kristof titled, “A Morsel of Goat Meat” (March 23, 2005, p. 17). This story describing rampant starvation in President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is euphoria-free:
The hungry children and the families dying of AIDS here are gut-wrenching, but somehow what I find even more depressing is this: Many, many ordinary black Zimbabweans wish that they could get back the white racist government that oppressed them in the 1970’s.
Read the rest:
www.cwfa.org/articles/7793/LEGAL/life/index.htm
By Jan LaRue, Chief Counsel
The advocates of “evolving standards of decency” at the Supreme Court should love it.
Call me a logical extremist, but I expect very soon to see a great demonstration in the nation’s capital demanding that the death penalty be limited to execution by starvation. It follows logically from what the media have been spoon-feeding us about the euphoria-induced state the terminally ill supposedly experience when they are starving to death.
But, some will say, few death row inmates are terminally ill, so it doesn’t apply. Terri Schiavo has no terminal illness, but that didn’t stop the euthanasia enthusiasts from applying the theory to her. That’s where logic leads to even when you start from a false premise.
The editorial boards of The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times should be leading the “mercy march” followed by the diverse devotees of death who’ve been telling the rest of us know-nothings to stop fretting about Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered starvation death. “It’s not cruel, inhumane and agonizing. It’s euphoric. Chill out.”
“Once food and water stop, death usually comes in about two weeks, and is caused by effects of dehydration, not the loss of nutrition,” said Dr. Sean Morrison, a professor of geriatrics and palliative care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. “They generally slip into a peaceful coma,” he said. “It’s very quiet, it’s very dignified—it’s very gentle” (John Schwartz, The New York Times, March 20, 2005, p. 29). Has this guy ever tried the grapefruit diet?
Three days later, the Times published an article by Nicholas D. Kristof titled, “A Morsel of Goat Meat” (March 23, 2005, p. 17). This story describing rampant starvation in President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is euphoria-free:
The hungry children and the families dying of AIDS here are gut-wrenching, but somehow what I find even more depressing is this: Many, many ordinary black Zimbabweans wish that they could get back the white racist government that oppressed them in the 1970’s.
Read the rest:
www.cwfa.org/articles/7793/LEGAL/life/index.htm
