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To: blownawaybylibs

It's the end of the legal road here and I suspect Terri is also at the point of no return.


47 posted on 03/24/2005 2:54:46 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

This is my fear. The judicial system has dithered so long, it seems to me intentionally, that Terri's physical condition (particularly her kidneys) are beyond repair.
At that point, do you resuscitate her to have her live with failing kidneys, dialysis, and doubtful for her, kidney transplant?
I don't know the facts but it seems it must be getting awfully close to this point.


93 posted on 03/24/2005 3:20:34 PM PST by krunkygirl
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To: nmh

Guess what I found.......

Terri

"The road to abuse

That's a system that's ripe for abuse by family members with ulterior motives. It's what many believe has happened in the case of Terri Schiavo—the disabled Florida woman whose husband has kept her in a hospice for years while seeking the court's permission to remove the feeding tube on which she depends so she can starve to death. Michael Schiavo lives with and has fathered two children with another woman and stands to inherit Terri's estate if she dies—the reason her parents believe he's never divorced her.

"The Terri Schiavo case cannot be understood without … the background of hospice and the right-to-die movement," Panzer said. "She was placed [in hospice care] as a test case for the right-to-die movement to establish a legal precedent to end the lives of the disabled using hearsay evidence [about her end-of-life wishes], which is very common in hospice settings and in cases where one family member wishes to end the life of the patient."

http://www.lifenews.com/bio186.html


119 posted on 03/24/2005 4:10:44 PM PST by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch.)
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