[lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Tue Mar 22 14:42:20 PST 2005


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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