Posted on 03/24/2005 2:10:42 PM PST by Truth666
It's obvious that the martyrdom of Terri Schiavo is a satanic ritual. It's supposed to culminate tomorrow, day Jesus Christ died.
I'm sure many of you also have understood it. Instead of continuing listing the details, I will let you do it yourselves.
How about the swallowing tests that were recommended in the Wolfson report--the ones that never occurred?
Thanks. Totally an uncalled for thread. The hysteria has gone over the top, IMO.
I hope it is in a pasture.
Carolina won!
Experts say pope's speech on feeding tubes settles some key issues
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Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which co-sponsored the conference, said April 7 that the pope's remarks have been wrongly interpreted by some to mean that the feeding tube is obligatory in every circumstance.
When the pope spoke of the "proper finality" of nutrition and hydration, he was making an important qualification, Bishop Sgreccia said.
"As long as nutrition and hydration are a support, as long as it is food and thirst-quenching drink that helps avoid suffering, it is obligatory," he said.
"If the patient no longer assimilates food and if the patient no longer has thirst quenched by fluids but is only tormented, there's no longer an obligation to administer it," he said.
Bishop Sgreccia, the pope's top bioethics adviser, said the pope's words were weighed very carefully. In the end, he said, they leave a "margin of judgment" to doctors and other health care professionals, who must decide whether the patient is truly being nourished and having his suffering alleviated.
Father Johnstone, who teaches at Rome's Alphonsianum University and works in a hospice for the terminally ill, said some experts have made the argument that tube-feeding can itself cause or increase suffering in a patient, especially when it requires constant adjustment or when the flesh around the tube degenerates.
Much depends on individual circumstances and a doctor's informed judgment, he said.
Bishop Sgreccia and others emphasized that the pope's speech did not appear out of nowhere. They said the basic position in favor of nutrition and hydration has been expressed before -- for example, in documents of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," and in the 1994 "Charter for Health Care Workers" published by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers.
"The pope's speech is very much in line with previous church positions going back to Pope Pius XII. In this case, the Holy Father applies it to the particular case of patients in the so-called vegetative state, and discusses the issue with a breadth and depth that is new," said Father Faggioni.
"It's a speech, so clearly this is not an 'ex cathedra' pronouncement. It's not infallible, and it's not an encyclical. But it is not a casual teaching, either. The pope is confirming an important teaching in the light of new medical practices," Father Faggioni said.
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Arthur hates to be pinged; did you know that?
I'll trade you, my old age for your young kids, it's a good deal....
What about them? Even Wolfson admitted she was PVS with little hope of recovery, just like her other three GALs and all her therapists and doctors.
I don't think there's been a documented case of someone coming out of PVS after three months, has there?
guess we should be pinging him if we are going to talk about him! :)
They're gonna need all that rest. Wisconsin is a pretty good team.
Yeah, they beat MY team tonight. Barely though.
~cough~
good to see you!
;)
Personally, I had not been pleased when I read that Ashcroft, who I like, had forced the family to keep the feeding tube in.
These matters used to be handled privately between doctors and families and the government getting involved is going to mean more litigation and more lawyers. This is NOT a good thing.
All I know is that he never responds to a post of mine, or anyone else that I have seen. He is up there on Mt. Olympus, above the fray, sending down bolts of his wisdom. Maybe when I am as old as he is, I will do the same.
That'd make me breathe again.
Even that Conference of Bishops said the tube was obligatory. There was a LOT of language that I thought rather carefully covered ground that could mean a lot of things, but if a person had an aversion to tubes or life saving equipment, or if it was a burden on the family in an assortment of ways or a financial burden, there was an obligation to the life of those family members too.
Varsity. Varsity. U Rah Rah Wis-con-sin. Praise to thee we sing. Praise to thee our alma mater . . .U Rah Rah Wiiissccccoooonnnssin.
Great run by the Wolfpack. Had me nervous in the first half.
Oh what joy beating Roy Williams would bring around here. He's the one who dissed our last Final Four team, in 2000.
DeLay steps out of the Schiavo spotlight.
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