Reply #23: Comforting the family is exactly what it is doing. [View All]

It is routine procedure anyway, in a case like this, but it is a sure sign Terri is close to death and her parents are probably very upset. They did this for 4 members of my family as well. Three of them probably needed it. The forth was just a comfort for the family thing.

I was there in all of these cases when the person passed and there was never any indication of pain. Actually in the first three cases they endured MANY painful years so when this stage finally came, I'm sure it was a relief to them. Dehydration itself is a natural painkiller.

Not to compare Terri to an animal. But Dehydration and starvation is the method old animals use to self euthanize. Sometimes when an old pet seemingly loses it's mind and takes off out the front door it will do the same.

Some Indians used to do this as well. Humans have become so used to thinking medical technology is the answer to everything they forget the body has always known how to die, we have just learned to interfere. Most elderly people die in a blissful state regardless of the disease process they are dying from and with no help from medical technology