It is mind blogging how some people are so ready to suggest the plug should be pulled on others. What if the pluggee doesn’t want the plug pulled? Pull it anyway?
There you go. One more down. Who else can we get rid of?
The thought brings to mind a picture of an eager face with a vile grin and some drool running down the chin for good measure. “Oh look, that little old lady in Aisle 4 doesn’t have quality of life. I wouldn’t want to live that way, walking with a limp. Let’s get her. Boy, this legal murder is empowering. Look at me! I have power over life and death. Why didn’t we start doing this before now? Oh, good another one back by the frozen foods. Such a good day for plug pulling.”
Think it can’t ever happen?
Who would have thought we would ever be where we are today? Who would have thought we would be so ready to say that helpless people “aren’t in there”, and thus believe it is simply okay to starve and dehydrate them to death? Who would have thought, but that is where society has arrived at. Society is killing off the weakest without thought to those who have fallen victim to illness, injury, disability or age. It is outrageous at how cold and cruel our society has become.
It is easy to say someone has no hope, when no therapy or attempt has been made to help the person get better. It’s causing the problem and then having the problem be our supportive argument as to why not to take any positive actions.
[P]eople can’t always get better without the tools and treatment being made available to them.
They can’t wheel themselves down the hallway, if they don’t have a wheel chair to wheel.
They can’t do physical therapy if none is offered, nor anyone to tell them how.
They can’t take the necessary medications to cure their illness, if no medication is made available.
They can’t eat or drink if no food or water is provided.
They can’t look out the window if there is no window to look out of.
Simply put, people can’t get better if they aren’t allowed to get better, because all things that will (or might) make them better is denied them.
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Pulling the Plug
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This is no longer the America I grew up in.
Chemung County NY attempted to pull the plug on Gary Harvey and they would have gotten by with it if it weren't for his wife, Sara.
There are many ways of 'pulling the plug'.
Recently, a beloved family member was in the hospital left to die. He was unable to access food or drink, he was unable to eat or drink without 100% assistance.
Well, wouldn't you think someone at the hospital would have noticed.
Wouldn't it be reasonable to believe that assistance would be available?
The answer is: NO, the patients' food was delivered to his bedside in his room.
The food tray, still covered and untouched was routinely removed and no one said or did anything about the life death situation which clearly indicates what?
1) it's easier and 2) cost effective to allow the person needing assistance to die a painful death from starvation and dehydration.
The good news is the patient survived, (currently significant improvement, self feeding at dining room table and so much more) due to family's immediate intervention and immediate survival action plan of attack.
There is a lot more to this 'sick and twisted' story for another time.
There are many ways to eliminate the unwanted.
And, like Gary this patient is a wartime WWII veteran who deserves more than he received, more than what was in the master plan to allow him to die, to disregard and eliminate the problem.
The subject of pulling the plug tugs at my heart becuase I think about people like Gary Harvey at the mercy of total strangers. And then when his wife tries to protect him (because his guardian ad litem, Kevin Moshier) is asleep at the switch, she is villified and retaliated against.
What a mixed up world.
Gary Harvey is denied everything as if he were a convicted felon instead of a disabled person. Correction - convicted felons are treated better.
Shame on all of those who have participated in the mistreatment of Gary Harvey.
You're right, Family, there are many ways to pull the plug. Neglect is one.
I am sorry for what your loved one went through.
I am sorry for the Harvey family.
I am sorry that society has cheapened the value of life.
My mother, Dorothy Wilson, is terrified of nursing homes. She was removed from her home on August 22 and placed in a nursing home by her guardian. Every time I see her she begs me to take her home. I have to tell her I can't while we both cry. She wants to go back to her own house of 60 years, or live with me. She does not know that the guardian just informed us yesterday that Mom's home was going to be listed for sale, along with all of her other possessions. She will be heartbroken when she finds out. In my mind, being imprisoned in a nursing home is a death sentence for my mother.
Thank you for this reminder that people can't get better or do better if they're not given the tools and the opportunity to do so. And love.
It upsets me when people think it's ok to pull the plug and say, "I wouldn't want to live in that condition...."
Well the person in that condition doesn't want to be in that condition either. But, there's a stronger force - the will and the need to live.
We must side with life.
I find it very odd that among us there are those who will so readily pull the plug on gramma and grandpa because they are old and fraile, yet these same people will fight for years and years over the old furniture, paintings and the matress stuffed full of musty old money
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