[lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo

[Michael Perelman]

Scott Nearing made a decision to take no more food, then no more water, then nothing.  
He was actually very healthy at the time, but 100 years old.  I met him a few years 
before while he was still building stone walls.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:37:41PM -0500, snitsnat wrote:
> Yesterday, there was a guy on the radio confirming what my mother has told 
> me, as has a woman who had her mother and MIL in hospice care. People don't 
> really feel a whole lot of pain or hunger when they're dying. They often 
> ask, "Shouldn't I feel hungry?"  This is also the case in starvation 
> studies. The body simply shuts down and doesn't feel hungry.
> 
> 
> My mom's a nurse in a geriatic ward and this is her passion, so I trust 
> her. She gets in bed with people and holds them as they die. Maybe she's 
> just rationalizing. I'm wondering if others have read/researched this issue?
> 
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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