Posted on 02/26/2005 3:47:17 PM PST by Hildy
For all of those who have called me every imaginable name because I dare to suggest that there are some things worse than death...I don't wish you on you anything that poor woman goes through on a minute by minute basis. Because you know so much, and are so sure that you are right because you are all so freakin self-righteous...I'm leaving FreeRepublic because I no longer want to be a part of something that has become so twisted. Hannity is right, this website has been hijacked. It was a good run...but we'll find another place. Save your jabs, I won't be reading them. To those who have privately agreed with me, and there are many, thank you. I'm just worn out and frankly, don't even care what most here think.
I'm sad and mad at you simultaneously...lol.
The vile, nasty posters aren't worth fretting over.
I'll see you at pplillipup...lol.
You'll like Nurse Hildy. Or maybe you'll go gently into the night surrounded at a table by loving friends who have tea and pleasant conversation before and after you blow your brains out.
That is the worst I have called her, but she had it pulled.
ping
well, let's look at this. hundreds, if not thousands, of years of jurisprudence have held that suicide is not to be condoned. Is it torture to prevent someone from committing suicide? If generation upon generation, continent to continent, through the ebbs and flows in the marketplace of ideas held that it is not, do you disregard the accumulated wisdom and say that it is? Do you go a step further -- a very big step -- and hold that, if you believe that it is torture to prevent someone from committing suicide, that your belief should be imposed upon Terry Schiavo (or anyone else, for that matter)?
Are you implying that Terry Schiavo is being kept alive against her will? Can you provide concrete evidence to support that claim? And, if you cannot, do you hold that hearsay is grounds enough to kill a completely defenseless person?
The only toruture going on is what is being done to logic on the pro death side of this case.
Please don't leave us nurse Hildy!
But I doubt you have the sophistication needed to understand my thinking.
So let it be.
On the other hand, perhaps you've had a parent in a long-term hospice, wasting away -- or worse: become insane, mean and crude -- and got convinced that pulling the feeding tube was true compassion.
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time stamp at 6:28:10 PM, post number 15
Hildy, I don't know you nor read a lot of your posts but I say this because I think the Old Timers here are very important to us all. Take some time away but come back.
You have been here a long time, that in itself speaks volumes in more ways than one. You probably joined because you wanted to do something for your Country, you had beliefs and hopes for America and shared them here, how can you do that if you go. Fr is not perfect, neither was or is America, that's why you came here, to do something about it, you can't do that by being silent or leaving for greener pastures, you can't leave America for greener pastures either. ;^)
Please stay, us newbies can't learn without you, we need a 'heritage' here as well as our Country to remind us where we've been and where we are headed.
That is Nurse Hildy alright. "confused" as always. : )
Grow up.
Are you for killing Terri, too?
No two situations are the same. hastening the day and time by hours or a day is quite different than initiating death. Yes, it is out of love and compassion in most cases.
Terry's situation is again unique. It compares more directly with a brain death case yet is in the gray in between. Again, their is no hope, and the lack of a living will is what was litigated again and again.
In each case, the simple determination was that she would have signed a restricted DNR that would prohibit long term artificial aid to maintain only a marginal, if that, existence.
Again, their is a compassionate angle.
What I find fascinating here on these threads, (you must excuse my love of analogy) is a one way thought process that is much like a human sphincter. It is eager to let things out, but when confronted with the prospect of letting something in, it seizes up tight, blocking any attempt at entry.
This is not entirely normal behavior, because you can never separate the fact from the fiction unless you see clearly in both directions.
Brings to mind a 70's musical quote: "Free your mind and your ass will follow."
I never said that. I am against childish personal attacks.
Stay here for a while.
You'll get attacked like you've never experienced before.
They're a vicious little bunch.
Reminds me of a cult mentality.
That also sounds like a personal attack.
Who might "They" be?
I didn't say you did.I only asked you a question. Your judgment on personal attacks seems to be a bit sensitive considering the forum we are on my child.
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