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To: tpaine
- Then try writing a constitutional 'law' giving this power CONSISTENTLY to someone/some-group other than parents or legal guardians..

What possible good would come of it, judges get to tell us what you really meant?

62 posted on 10/18/2003 3:04:22 PM PDT by itsahoot (The lesser of two evils, is evil still...Alan Keyes)
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Personally, I think that if a person has left clear written instructions that have been notarized, there's nothing wrong with carrying out their wishes. If someone clearly would not wish to carry on in a persistent vegetative state, there is nothing wrong with obeying their wishes.

However, where clear written instructions are not present, it is merely one party's word against the other's. How can someone possibly make such a decision? I wouldn't want to have that kind of responsibility. In a situation like Terri Schiavo's...where her husband claims she said she would not want to be kept alive in such a state but can produce no proof...I would have to side with her parents and not remove the feeding tube. However, were he able to produce a document signed by Terri and notarized by a third party, I don't see a problem with it; after all, those would have been HER wishes.

64 posted on 10/18/2003 3:12:10 PM PDT by Pedantic_Lady
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To: itsahoot
Apparently, you have 'given up' on restoring respect for our constitutional republic..

I haven't.

Our political system is broken, not our constitution.
65 posted on 10/18/2003 3:18:25 PM PDT by tpaine (I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but Arnie won, & politics as usual lost. Yo!)
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