“A bill allowing the starvation and dehydration of dementia and mentally ill patients against their will passed the Oregon Senate 17-13 on June 8. …SB494 would remove safeguards in Oregon law that protect the right of patients to receive food and water as part of basic treatment. It would give healthcare representatives power to potentially coerce doctors into starving patients against their will. …SB494 was introduced after a dispute between the husband of an Alzheimer’s patient and her nursing home. The patient, Nora Harris, had filled out an advance directive saying she didn’t want to be fed intravenously. She began needing helping using utensils. Harris could still eat with her hands and was still expressing a desire to eat. Her husband filed a lawsuit to get her nursing home to stop feeding her.” –Source

Me thinks her so called “advance directive saying she didn’t want to be fed intravenously” may have been forged by her husband as it is painfully clear that even though she is in an advanced state of dementia she still wants to be fed. And because she won’t allow them to murder her by starvation, her husband is now seeking laws to allow her to be murdered. And in today’s world where any woman can walk into an abortion clinic can legally murder her baby to avoid stretch marks, or any coherent patient dying of a so called incurable disease can pay their doctor to legally murder them, what’s to stop this man from seeking a way to murder his wife so he can either gain her insurance money, prevent her insurance payoff from dwindling due to it being used to feed her or on the better toss of the coin he simply can’t deal to watch her drift away mentally.  Continue reading →