Terri Schiavo's Brother Says Ellen Goodman Op-Ed Misguided, Inaccurate

LifeNews.com ^ | September 25, 2006 | Steven Ertelt

[T'wit]

Second quiz. If you can answer the first quiz (see #17), tell us which persons of those three remembered Terri's statements after meeting in person with George Felos, Michael Schiavo's lawyer?

You can have three guesses, but shouldn't need them :-)

[GovernmentShrinker]

My wife made it very clear to me that if she were ever in that situation and there was a one in a million chance she could come out of it then leave the goddamn plug in.

But who does she think should foot the bill for keeping a million severely impaired patients alive, in order that some day ONE of them might regain some awareness? Money doesn't grow on trees; it represents chunks of people's lives, which shouldn't be thoughtlessly confiscated.

[GovernmentShrinker]

But perhaps ONLY under those conditions? :-)

[RichInOC]

So Ellen's her usual self, then?

[muawiyah]

What you probably need to do is hire a "hit" ~ do this very discretely, but you'd better believe the others will get the idea real fast and leave you alone.

Remember, they will be advising termination to a lot of different people in a short period of time so they won't really know who did it.

I doubt they're aware they're really hanging out for someone who would hire the mob.

[afortiori]

Peace Kills

Greg Levy, a UMass student, killed himself by fire in Amherst Common in 1990 to protest the Gulf War, and now it's hard even to find a single mention of him on the web, despite the fact that his step-mother, Ellen Goodman, was a syndicated political columnist (who never once mentioned him in print, as far as I can tell).

[HEY4QDEMS]

But who does she think should foot the bill for keeping a million severely impaired patients alive

She's not speaking for a million people she's speakin for herself and if I needed to, I will pay for her.

[HEY4QDEMS]

You know, this is rally turning into a morbid conversation.

[muawiyah]

So, you are giving us the evidence that Ellen Goodman is as hard-hearted and nasty as we have all come to believe her to be.

[HEY4QDEMS]

rally = really

[feedback doctor]

There have been a lot of exaggerations and distortions on both sides of this case. Few of these doctors ever saw Terri. Most just made general statements about the impossibility of 100% certainty of lack of awareness and/or lack of possibility of future awareness, based on the clinical diagnostic results which were available for Terri.

So, when in doubt KILL!

[HEY4QDEMS]

Perhaps having Ellen Goodman as his step mother was the real reason he killed himself.

[muawiyah]

Considerations of death's coming are going to be like that you know.

[Lancey Howard]

Ellen Goodman "misguided, inaccurate"??

I suppose it's understandable that Bobby Schindler would want to set the record straight, but somebody should have clued him in about what a sick cow Goodman is. Best ignored.

[Married with Children]

I must say she was a looker before she became injured.

[The Blitherer]

What's even more scary is now hospitals are starting to jump on the "death to the helpless" bandwagon. My wife made it very clear to me that if she were ever in that situation and there was a one in a million chance she could come out of it then leave the goddamn plug in. If that ever did happen, I'd honor her wishes but I fear I'd end up facing a legal fight from the hospitals and health insurance companies that will try to kill her. In Holland, family members are excluded from the decision making altogether, it's completely at the doctors' descretion.

I know, its terrible.

No matter how sick or old a person might be, they should never be denied the basics of life, ie. food and water. When food and water is all a "brain-dead" person requires, it is murder to deny it to them.

I should be clear though, I'm not in favor of keeping people alive whose time has come. For example, a 90 year old woman who is so old and sick her heart won't even pump on its own should not be hooked up to machines to keep her heart pumping and lungs breathing indefinitely. In situations like this, when more than food and water is required to keep a person alive, the debate must be viewed on a more individual basis.

I think that any time there is the slightest doubt, we must always err on the side of life.

Its also interesting, the left has infinite faith that embryonic stem cell research will someday cure almost any disease, and probably could have cured Christopher Reeves, and yet they are equally as certain that people like Terri will never recover. Why do they always side with death?

[HEY4QDEMS]

I'm not in favor of keeping people alive whose time has come. For example, a 90 year old woman who is so old and sick her heart won't even pump on its own should not be hooked up to machines to keep her heart pumping and lungs breathing indefinitely.

Nor am I, thats a very reasonble position.

[clinkclink]

ignorance bump

[justshutupandtakeit]

Such tactics are entirely too familiar.