{"id":1188,"date":"2005-10-22T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2005-10-22T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T14:29:41","slug":"euthanasia-in-the-big-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/euthanasia-in-the-big-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia in the Big Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/opinion\/columns\/chuckcolson\/2005\/10\/21\/172464.html\">Townhall.com<\/a>  Charles Colson<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that many of the most horrific stories we heard about New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina weren\u2019t true. But there\u2019s one nightmarish story that may turn out to be an exception\u2014a story that should cause anyone who plans on growing old to lose some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Following Katrina, stories began to circulate about the goings on at Memorial Hospital. These stories depicted an overwhelmed and increasingly desperate staff repeatedly discussing the unthinkable: \u201ceuthanizing patients they thought might not survive the ordeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fran Butler, a nurse manager at Memorial, told CNN that her \u201cnurses wanted to know what was the plan.\u201d Were they supposed to put people out of their misery? Dr. Bryant King has told authorities about similar discussions among doctors, adding that he thinks that the matter went beyond mere talk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com Charles Colson It turns out that many of the most horrific stories we heard about New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina weren\u2019t true. But there\u2019s one nightmarish story that may turn out to be an exception\u2014a story that should cause anyone who plans on growing old to lose some sleep. Following Katrina, stories &#8230; <a title=\"Euthanasia in the Big Easy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/euthanasia-in-the-big-easy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Euthanasia in the Big Easy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}