[Magdalen] Alfie Evans has died

[Jay Weigel]

ME, do you remember the Justina Pellettier case? I kind of felt the parents
handled the media side wrong, but I guess they went to the only folks who
would listen at the time.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 11:43 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was an article in the New Yorker recently:
> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/05/what-does-it-mean-to-die
>
> The suggestion that physicians, men and women who cherish their own
> intelligence, would think a non-thinking person is not alive, has stayed
> with me.
>
> I also remember my shock at hearing a physician say he’d never medicate a
> patient so heavily that the patient was unable to pray. Protocols be
> damned, I guess.
> -M
>
>
> On Monday, April 30, 2018, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > me that doctors never have all the answers. Also, this was a black child,
> > and the hospital did not take into account, apparently (nor did the legal
> > system) the feelings and attitudes of African-Americans toward death and
> > the dying process.
> >
> >
>