A study has found that people with serious cognitive impairments who are conscious—people who are routinely dehydrated to death in most states—feel pain. From the story: Severely brain-damaged patients in a “minimally conscious state” may still feel pain and require . . . . Continue Reading »
For more than ten years I have been telling anyone who will listen that unquestionably conscious cognitively disabled patients are being denied sustenance in every state in this country—so long as no family member objects (and eventually, if futile care theory takes hold, it will be even if . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS may recall several months ago I posted on a thwarted dehydration in which doctors and a seriously injured wife had agreed to dehydrate Jesse Ramirez to death because doctors believed he would never gain consciousness. Thank goodness, Ramirez’s parents fought the . . . . Continue Reading »
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