When Do We Let Go and Let God
Barbara Huttman's " Crime of Compassion", is a very admirable story. Huttman begins the essay with the dramatic scene of her as a guest on the Phil Donahue show. The illustration of the "fatted calf and the audience a two hundred-strong flock of vultures hungering to pick up the bones"(555) brought graphic detail on how the public views the controversial decision she made as a nurse and friend. Not pushing the code blue button for the fifty-second time that month, allowing her patient to end his constant pain and permitting nature to take its course, was the only so called crime Huttman committed. If the television show had allowed time for the full story the audience and everyone watching would have come to realize she did the only thing spiritually and emotionally she could. This becomes completely clear as she tells the devastating story of this dynamic, muscular police officer and his family discovering he had lung cancer. The narrative of the six months following the patient's discovery of his lung cancer is a very gripping description. The way she introduces you to the patient, Mac and his wife Maura pulls the reader in emotionally. With these emotions raised, Huttman explains her daily r
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Phil Donahue, Code Blue, Euthanasia Hasting, Mac Forcing, Crime Compassion, code blue, nature course, Passive Euthanasia, fifty-two times month, letting nature course, passive euthanasia, lung cancer, feel pain, letting nature, huttman speaks, code button, mac's doctor, fifty-two times,
Approximate Word count = 838
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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