{"id":1412,"date":"2004-09-04T08:17:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T13:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2004-09-04T08:17:44","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T13:17:44","slug":"starvation-is-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/09\/starvation-is-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Starvation is not a peaceful death."},"content":{"rendered":"

Even its advocates know it isn’t a peaceful death, even as they assure us it is.
\nFather Johansen has posted the “Exit Protocol”<\/a> devised for Terri Schiavo back in 2001, when her feeding was scheduled to cease in April. It was discovered during a review of her medical records at the Hospice (and the fact that Terri has lived so long at the Hospice should itself be a clue: she’s not terminally ill<\/b>, she’s disabled.)
\nThe protocol is a care plan designed to minimize Terri’s suffering she underwent as she starved to death (wait a minute — weren’t we being told she can’t feel anything anyway and would be undergoing a quick, easy death?)
\nThe Hospice expected that Terri would probably experience pain, skin breakdown (everything from chapped lips to skin ulcers was addressed in the plan), dry mouth, and an inability to manage the thickening secretions in her nose and mouth. The Hospice planned to administer morphine by nebulizer when her breathing started to grow labored.
\nAnd, when she began to experience uncontrollable muscle twitching and spasms (ever had a Charley horse?) the plan was to give her diazepam (Valium). They had even anticipated the possibility that Terri would suffer grand mal seizures.
\n“An easy way to go.” “This is what Terri would have wanted.”
\nPain, skin breakdown, choking on one’s own mucus, gasping for breath, and seizures. “Painless.” Uh-huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even its advocates know it isn’t a peaceful death, even as they assure us it is. Father Johansen has posted the “Exit Protocol” devised for Terri Schiavo back in 2001, when her feeding was scheduled to cease in April. It was discovered during a review of her medical records at the Hospice (and the fact… Continue reading Starvation is not a peaceful death.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terri-schiavo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}