Posted on 04/07/2005 2:59:57 AM PDT by schmelvin
Both sides are potentially as good or bad as the individuals involved. One one hand... to put it in the hands of an unemotional third party relieves your family of a big weight of responsibility... but on the other hand, it may make them feel powerless. This all assumes only good intent. I don't picture my own family ever killing me for my inheritance.
Well, here's to hoping we never have to rely on either one for our decisions.
I would not have a living will that was activated if I am conscious. Living wills for me assume the inability for me to speak for myself. And no, I can't imagine rejecting any such request.
See, that is one of those distinction things. Terri COULD MOVE. She could turn her head and look at people, she even closed her eyes for prayer and opened them again after the prayer ended. Sounds like more than 'reflex'.
And I'd hope we wouldn't end up on TV, being dissected and passed around as grist for the mill.
There's another distinction. Had it not been for tv, we would not have been able to see Terri move her head, or follow the balloon with her eyes. We got to see something with our own eyes.
NOC is the Free Republic Nuclear Option Committe for Judicial Activism. We intend to help break the filibuster if we can.
I'm not particularly qualified to do that. I just recognize that there is a whole range of brain injury where the mind may be lost but the body is healthy.
The content of those tapes is far from conclusive... But IF all the videos showed what they claimed to show, that is still not a life I would want to prolong if it were me. Years of laying there unable to move my body, hoping someone comes in today and stimulates me with a balloon moving back and forth is just not enough reason for me to want to wake up in the morning.
If it were me, I'd hope I was NEVER the topic of discussion and dissection for the country to muse over. This needs to remain the very private decision of families that it usually is. Terri's case was rare, and it's publicity even more rare.
I've been an conservative activist for a LONG time...before it was "cool".
I have deeply sacrificed--both personal and professional success--for "the cause" and to assist worthy groups. You'd probably be surprised that I did fund-raising (volunteer) for "pro-life" groups (supporting their anti-abortion activities). You'd probably be surprised that my conservative activist activities were mentioned in a NYT best-seller a decade ago. You'd probably be surprised that ... well, many more... :-)
You may surprise me. I'd definately enjoy that. :)
I appreciate your candor. I hope I have surprised you in a positive way...and I hope it opens the eyes of some who are trying to rip us all apart with epithets and lies. I try not to assume things about others on here, and try to see their points of view...and even if I disagree, I hope I'm civil and don't assume the worst of them.
I just talked with the nephew- Kenneth..
The Judge DOES NEED TO BE HOUNDED!
KEEP ON THE JUDGE! Check out Hyscinece for all the latest info on this case-- Kenneth is in touch with them...
He had to get off the 0phone to talk to his attorney- so info should be coming soon!!
Yes, Terri's body was healthy. Such a shame that her family will never know if she could have improved like some doctors though if she had been allowed to go through a full course of rehab.
One of my uncle's had a brain anurysm. He went into coma and was brain dead. My aun had the plugs (PLURAL as he was on a respirator and other machines) after roughly 3 months. See, there was a big difference between his condition and Terri's. He truly was vegetative and comatose, she wasn't. But, they killed her anyway.
Can you try to consider that these FReepers might not be siding with "death" but with "rights" and "law" and "constitution" and "limited government" and "marriage" and "The Golden Rule" and many other things? Why must you slur your fellow posters so? Is it that you can't see any other possibility, or do you do it intentionally because you can't argue facts? Or something else?
She was vegetative, just not brain dead.
okay your position is well thought out, reasoned and accepted. That is what you would want for YOU. You understand it to be the same thing your husband would want.
How about Mae's case here? From what we know at face value. Living Will clearly shows when she would want to be stared and dehydrated to death. Do you think the Judge made a good decision putting the granddaughter in charge as Mae's Guardian when the granddaughter ordered her grandmother to be starved to death when grandma wasn't "dying." This is granddaughter (same as Terri Schindlers Husband in Name only) actively forcing death on an otherwise living person, who is not in the act of dying.
Good move by the Judge, or do you think the Sister and Brother and Nephew would have been better guardians. Re-read the post first what is wrong with Mae then comment on if the Judge selected the best in family as guardian.
Thanks for letting me know waht NOC is. At this point I can't get involved. But good luck to you guys!
Well how about a link!
No problem, pal.
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Marriage? You mean as in.. the sanctity of??? you mean like not moving in with another woman when you're married to someone else? like for better or worse??
Constitution? as in the inalienable RIGHT TO LIFE?
thanks for playing..try again.
Cool! ;)
I hope I have surprised you in a positive way.
You have. I'm glad.
and I hope it opens the eyes of some who are trying to rip us all apart with epithets
For being pro-life for ALL life I've been called lunatic and fringer. Posting prayers, hymns and Scripture will get a person a nasty label. And on a pro-life, pro-God forum. It's difficult NOT to strike back. And there are a few who have been very cruel in their attitude toward the Schindlers. One rejoiced that Terri's parents would have no access to her grave. I asked if I had misunderstood. I didn't. Those kinds of hard words make civility difficult and differences polarizing.
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