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To: strela
And I think you take way too much upon yourself to presume to want to play God with her life.

Actually you are the one who has consistently made your personal feelings known about her life for the last ten years or so.

I have not said anything except to ask you to elaborate about what should be done in the absence of her clear decision about what she would have wanted.

Now who is playing God? How is it playing God to ask how we should decide what her decision would have been?

You can trust me 150% on this, if you want to be dehydrated to death when your time comes, I will not come and worry one second about you. Nor will I ever try to stop you.

My concern is for those who have not said this is what they wanted, and the choice is being made for them. As well as for the many people who have been forced into death by dehydration even when asking for food and water.

536 posted on 10/16/2003 11:09:10 PM PDT by MarMema (KILLING ISN'T MEDICINE)
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To: MarMema
Actually you are the one who has consistently made your personal feelings known about her life for the last ten years or so.

I only found FreeRepublic 3 years ago.

I have not said anything except to ask you to elaborate about what should be done in the absence of her clear decision about what she would have wanted.

And I answered clearly - that question is answered in the laws that are on the books today, and is being done today.

Now who is playing God?

Certainly not me. And, there's only one other person on this discussion in this thread.

You can trust me 150% on this, if you want to be dehydrated to death when your time comes, I will not come and worry one second about you. Nor will I ever try to stop you.

Thank you. My Living Will is worded in such a way as to make such interference on your part impossible anyway, but its the thought that counts.

My concern is for those who have not said this is what they wanted, and the choice is being made for them.

As it has to be, for they did not have the foresight to file a Living Will. The law is not always the best solution, but it beats the alternative - anarchy.

As well as for the many people who have been forced into death by dehydration even when asking for food and water.

When did Terri Schiavo ever "ask" for food and water?

560 posted on 10/16/2003 11:22:06 PM PDT by strela ("We are the RNC. Resistance is futile. We will blend your political distinctiveness into our own.")
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