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He's dead, Jim.

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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/06/10/wheres-spot-by-eric-hill/10300747/">Eric Hill</a>, author of Spot books (the cute little yellow dog). My cousin LOVED Spot when she was a toddler.
 
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jen said:
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/06/10/wheres-spot-by-eric-hill/10300747/">Eric Hill</a>, author of Spot books (the cute little yellow dog). My cousin LOVED Spot when she was a toddler.
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Aw.... We're using the Spot books right now with our two year old. Great stuff! Sad to hear their author has passed.
 
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We did this with my grandfather at the end, as well (he was Catholic as well, I might add). It wasn't a matter of starving him to death. Fluids basically filled his lungs and that was the end of that.

If they're withholding fluids, he's likely unconscious and unresponsive. If they've been doing this since Friday, I'd be willing to bet a beer that we'll see the death announcement tomorrow, or Friday at the latest.

EDIT: Apparently Mr. Kasem had signed off on this previously, that he did not want food or fluids if he was mentally incapacitated.
 
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From a Catholic point of view, you can't starve or dehydrate a person to death - it's, in effect, capital punishment by bits and pieces. Withhold artificial machines, heroic measures? Fine. You can ease their pain, but you must let a natural death take place in its own time.
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Its not the first time I've said it, and I'm sure it won't be the last....**** the Catholic point of view. I'm so god**** sick of their ****.
 
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I doubt this is much at this point, but John Glenn just had heart valve replacement surgery. At 93.
 
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It is actually kinder to withhold fluids. With dehydration the pt becomes ketotic and they actually have less ability to feel pain, or hunger. If you provide food and liquids but no meds it is much more painful.

I am a little unclear how the Catholic Church can delineate what is OK and not OK. All the interventions are man-made. If it is the will of God to take the person if there is no intervention then why is it OK to intervene. How do they decide when you must intervene and what is too much? Not being snide. This has always puzzled me.
 
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My grandmother was a devout Lutheran, and was worried that stopping treatments and going into hospice would be considered suicide. A very cool doctor told her that she shouldn't think of it that way, because they were playing God by keeping her alive when she was clearly supposed to go.

She probably could have had another year tops, but she was tired of only being alive because of treatments, and only living for the next one.
 
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