Terri Schiavo: Please explain something to me...

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by Mad4stevie

I heard an interview where it was discussed that sometimes morphine is given to patients in PVS as a consolation to the family, not because the patient was "experiencing" pain. Hummmmm . . .

If that was true for this case, then why are the parents complaining about it?


We give it for comfort. No one knows if the patient is experiencing pain. My grandma died of brain cancer. She didn't respond to internal or external stimuli. People always say, "I hope they are not dying a painful death." That's why we give them Morphine, to do the best we can so they don't.

Death by any means is not pleasant. Whether you are starving, drowning, in an accident, etc.......I see this case as any other. If we threw her in a pool and let her drown, there would be hell raised. There is no easy way to die. Even in your sleep, you are gasping for air...