It Takes a Long Time to Starve a Severely Disabled Infant to Death by Withdrawing Medically-Supplied Nutrition

It Takes a Long Time to Starve a Severely Disabled Infant to Death by Withdrawing Medically-Supplied Nutrition � Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: A disturbing study has come out about how long it takes to starve an infant to death. From the study:

Neonatal survival after withdrawal of artificial hydration and nutrition can last up to 26 days. . . . Although physical distress is not apparent in the infants, the psychological distress of parents and clinicians builds with the length of survival. These babies live much, much longer than anybody expects. I think that neonatologists and nurses and palliative care clinicians need to be alerted to this. The time between withdrawal of feeding and end of life is something that is not predictable, and you need to be cautioned very strongly about that if you are going to do this work.

These infants did not die from their underlying conditions. The study further wants infants being dehydrated to become research subjects on the physiological processes of being starved.

Editor: Dr. Mengele would be proud.