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To: Shalom Israel
Anyone who re-marries after losing kills a loved one is a lowlife?

Um, yeah.

It was Terri that said she didn't want to live like that.

74 posted on 01/22/2006 2:40:30 PM PST by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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To: JTN
It was Terri Michael who said that Terri said she didn't want to live like that. Oh, and his brother and his sister-in-law.

Whether Terri said anything can be disputed over and over. What cannot be disputed is that Terri never gave informed consent one way or the other. And she couldn't have, as when she collapsed, food and water administered via a feeding tube was considered ordinary and not extraordinary care. The law didn't change until 1999, after Michael has begun his petition to have her feeding tube removed.

Still, it wouldn't be such a big deal if they had just offered the woman food and water by mouth, but Judge Greer nixed that.

83 posted on 01/22/2006 3:39:47 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: JTN
It was Terri that said she didn't want to live like that.

I didn't know you had ever spoken to Terri. Oh, that's right--you didn't! You're quoting the testimony of the same man that demanded her death by starvation, as corroborated by his siblings and contradicted by everyone in the wife's family, as if it were indisputable truth. The standard of evidence that satisfies you a person should be starved to death, is appallingly low. But I guess there's poetic justice in the fact that, when you're old enough for a cerebral incident to be likely, the Terri Schiavo standard will probably be standard, and will allow your kids to pull the plug on you.

124 posted on 01/22/2006 4:44:40 PM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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