IS STARVATION AND DEHYDRATION A DIGNIFIED DEATH?
No. This kind of death is horrible to undergo and to watch. Nurses and other health care personnel have expressed revulsion at having to participate in cases where the patient is starved and dehydrated, and it is unpleasant for the patient’s family, too. That’s why some are suggesting that it would be more “humane” to administer a lethal injection instead, so the patient would die quickly and painlessly. (This practice already is widespread in the Netherlands, where an estimated 5-10,000 people are killed each year by their physicians with lethal drugs. Reports from Holland indicate that euthanasia in that country isn’t limited to “voluntary” cases and that patients are being killed involuntarily in Dutch hospitals.
