eternalmelancholy
waiting for the bus
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1,169
Here are some cliff notes since it is a long story:
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For the last 24 years -- since he was paralyzed at age 3 in a car accident -- Crews has been a quadriplegic, able to speak and eat, but not breathe on his own.
"Just imagine having your arms and legs strapped down 24 hours a day, seven days a week and not being able to do anything about it and not going anywhere," said the 27-year-old, who lives with his mother in Antioch, Ill.
"I have no education," said Crews. "No education prospects. No job prospects. I have no love prospects. All I want is to no longer live like this."
The head psychiatrist at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, where Crews has received most of his treatment since he was airlifted from the accident, says he is depressed and that overrides his ability to make a life or death decision.
When he tried to starve himself, doctors threatened to use a feeding tube and he relented.
Nursing care -- two a day working 92 hours a week – has cost the family $300,000 to $500,000 year.
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It is all about $$$ for these hospitals. They will declare you mentally unsound which makes you unable to make decisions about your own life. Then they will proceed to drain every last penny out of you and your family for years, or in this case decades. I am sure once the money runs out the hospital will magically declare him mentally sound and let him die. These doctors are scum. Pure scum.
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Here is the link to the full story if you want to read it: Quadriplegic Begs to Die, But Hospital Refuses
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For the last 24 years -- since he was paralyzed at age 3 in a car accident -- Crews has been a quadriplegic, able to speak and eat, but not breathe on his own.
"Just imagine having your arms and legs strapped down 24 hours a day, seven days a week and not being able to do anything about it and not going anywhere," said the 27-year-old, who lives with his mother in Antioch, Ill.
"I have no education," said Crews. "No education prospects. No job prospects. I have no love prospects. All I want is to no longer live like this."
The head psychiatrist at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, where Crews has received most of his treatment since he was airlifted from the accident, says he is depressed and that overrides his ability to make a life or death decision.
When he tried to starve himself, doctors threatened to use a feeding tube and he relented.
Nursing care -- two a day working 92 hours a week – has cost the family $300,000 to $500,000 year.
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It is all about $$$ for these hospitals. They will declare you mentally unsound which makes you unable to make decisions about your own life. Then they will proceed to drain every last penny out of you and your family for years, or in this case decades. I am sure once the money runs out the hospital will magically declare him mentally sound and let him die. These doctors are scum. Pure scum.
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Here is the link to the full story if you want to read it: Quadriplegic Begs to Die, But Hospital Refuses
