Posted on 04/07/2005 6:15:38 AM PDT by tacomonkey2002
Thanks for making the standard screwball charge of nazism. This shows that you know nothing either of Nazism or medical judgement.
Of course the first side to drag out the Nazi card in a debate loses the argument.
That's what I want to know.
I'm sending this to Glenn Beck as we speak.
NO, Judge Greer did NOT follow the letter of the law. The law required that it be PROVED that Terri was PVS and that she would want to be starved and dehyrdated to death.
The law did not say that he could use a mere preponderance of the evidence, but that he had to have PROOF, which he clearly did not have.
Additionally, even with proof that she "wouldn't want to be kept alive" and that she was PVS, he had no right to forbid any attempt to feed her by mouth, only the right to stop her feeding tube.
NO, Judge Greer did NOT follow the letter of the law. The law required that it be PROVED that Terri was PVS and that she would want to be starved and dehyrdated to death.
The law did not say that he could use a mere preponderance of the evidence, but that he had to have PROOF, which he clearly did not have.
Additionally, even with proof that she "wouldn't want to be kept alive" and that she was PVS, he had no right to forbid any attempt to feed her by mouth, only the right to stop her feeding tube.
OOPS, sorry about the double post.
Only by the idiots.
It's NOT "judging" the LAW. It's USING JUDGEMENT - in this case, feeling queezy about letting a guardian who's an adulterer who "changes his mind" about Terri's wishes have what is essentially his way.
No1 in their right mind would let such a situation slide. In this case, call it "reasonable doubt" about the truth of Terri's wishes.
I have lived in the Social Security/ Medicare mileu for several years. What I see that soaks the taxpayers is lots of expensive surgery on very elderly patients and an eagerness to institutionalize people who would rather live at home. I call this the Medicare money machine. For instance, psychiatrists and podiatrists can bill everyone in the nursing home when they pass through. In this case, maybe the cardiac surgery which cost a fortune might not have made much sense, if they did it and then sent the patient to hospice.
Even by some people who are not idiots, but were blinded by loyalty to the rule of law.
Bump!
"Nonsense. Nothing can stop most of it. These issues were never even seriously thought about as long as private resources were required to maintain the patient. Only after the pockets of the taxpayer became available or free money from the insurance companies were the enormous costs of prolonging the deaths acceptable."
I was just posting the source of that philosophy.
I forwarded this story to Glenn Beck yesterday. Today he's all over it like "stink on a monkey". Sometimes things just "work out".
The woman is 81. There is some excellent information and updates on this case at www.blogsforterri.com
BTTT!
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