[NebraskaTrailrider]

Why does this one important point keep missing so many peoples attention...

**Who the *ell says it's your right to 'mercy kill' ANYONE??? Coma or NOT????

Did you create life? NO
Did you ask God if you could take a life He created? No
Then what gives a person the authority to decide the worth of a life????????


I'm mad, sorry
But the bible tells us the each of us is a treasure to Him.
No matter what our condition in this world is.
He has that authority, not man.

Unless you don't believe in Him or in His absolute Authority. Then your conscious will give you ANY right you want.

[mountaineer]

My father was a victim of early-onset Alzheimers Disease. In the last few months of his life, at age 69, he was unable to eat or swallow and he had lost his gag reflex. We had to have a feeding tube inserted. Obviously, there was no hope of recovery. His once brilliant mind was irretrievably gone.

His decline had been rapid - every day brought new evidence of his diminished capacity. While we agreed to a "do not resuscitate" order, we drew the line at withholding nourishment, although it was suggested by the nursing home people.

The thought that we could have said, "Go ahead, starve him to death" is abhorrent. We had no way of knowing whether or how much he could feel pain, but that wasn't the point. You just don't starve a human being with the expectation, the hope, that he'll die. If you do it to an animal, you get charged with a crime. How sad that Terri's so-called husband is a hero of the pro-death crowd.

[SmokyGeo]

**Who the *ell says it's your right to 'mercy kill' ANYONE??? Coma or NOT????

With all respect, from what I've read about this case Terri's condition now resulted from a heart attack several years ago. While I'm certainly not saying that doctors ought not do whatever is possible to help someone who has had a heart attack, I am saying that whatever they did was the first intervention in the natural course of events.

None of us knows the mind of the Creator. It's possible that Terri was being called home those many years ago.

I do think that someone ought to try feeding her by mouth, if that's possible. Unless her doctors know that her swallowing reflexes are gone, it seems strange that no one has tried to do that.

[cgk]

Amen!