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GUEST COLUMN

 

(3/13/2006)

 

 

Dear Kids
One woman's unofficial "living will"

 

By Carrie Hutchens

 

 

Dear Kids:

I've been reading a great deal lately about a husband getting his wife terminated, a wife trying to do the same to her husband, and a son who sold off his dad's stuff even before he was done dehydrating.

You didn't hear about those cases? Really? Well let me tell you a little bit about them.

Terri Schiavo mysteriously collapsed and ended up brain damaged due to lack of oxygen. Only God knows what happened that fateful night. Any ways...her husband went to court and got her feeding tube yanked. She died of dehydration. That isn't a pleasant way to go. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. That comparison of what happens in the dying process doesn't compare. Not at all.

Let me put it this way. To not drink because one is dying and the body is rejecting it is far different than dying because the body isn't receiving fluids. Keep that in mind.

Then we have the man who mysteriously was injured while home alone with his wife and child. Due to head trauma, he is brain damaged. His wife apparently wanted to put him right into a hospice and pull his feeling tube. Yep, pull it right out. Go directly to dehydration--don't pass rehabilitation or time to heal. (Thus far her efforts have been thwarted.)

Oh, but it doesn't end there.

A man from New York went down there to Florida to visit. While there, he had a stroke. I guess the son was told that his father would never be the same man he had been. Into the hospice the man goes and out comes the feeding tube. Apparently didn't matter that a family friend that was actually there with the fallen man and was trying to tell everyone that he was responding... that he was improving. That was wishful thinking on her part. You know... that standby and over used reflex theory.

The DCF received a report on this man's situation, but claimed that it didn't fit the guidelines for intervention. A person falls ill, is vulnerable, is being refused food and water which will lead only to one result--death by torture, but it doesn't fit the guidelines?

He died.

Well, this got me to thinking. I have now written up some very specific directives, rules and warnings.

Should I fall ill or injured, that is absolutely no excuse for you to deny me substance simply because I have. If I am ready to die, I will go. I don't need your help, thank you. So, if any one of you orders that I am to be denied food and water, even if per a feeding tube--you are immediately disinherited. Not only that, I have all your debts to me recorded (and proof thereof). Upon orders to dehydrate me--said debts are to be turned over to a specified person for immediate collection thereof. In other words, as you drain me and suck me dry--I have made sure you shall be materially drained and sucked dry as well.

I have also made sure that the world will know of my directives, rules and warnings, so you will NOT be able to lie your way out of intentionally killing me.

Abuse is not allowed either.

Don't stuff me into isolation at a hospice and/or take me to your home and try to make me lose my will to live.

Even suspect of this, enacts the disinheritance clause and immediate collection rule.

Should all the safeguards fail and you find some way to kill me off before I am ready to go just because you feel I am useless and in the way, I have another promise for you.

If there is a way to come back, count on the fact that I will!

Count on the fact that I will haunt you for the rest of your life! You won't have a moment's piece. Or, if you do--it will only be a tease and then--SURPRISE!

I don't sound like the person you have known all your life? Well, if you kill me off--we are even. Looks like you won't be the kid I thought I raised to respect life and love me just a little bit, too.

Love,

Me

 

 

Carrie Hutchens is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is active in fighting against the death culture movement and the injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.

 

Other work by Carrie Hutchens: Media Contradicts Media Contradicting Media

 

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