Posted on 10/25/2003 9:14:30 AM PDT by FreepinforTerri
This is a post on Glenn Beck's Insider message forum... FYI:
HAMMESFAHR NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE. http://www.hni-online.com/
Becki
The opposing side will make a big deal out of it. We are dealing with powerful forces of darkness, and this lone doctor will not carry the day, Nobel nominee or not imo.
Terri needs a lot more help if she is going to be allowed to live.
Even if he just wants her dead so he can marry his mistress???? Boy am I ever glad I'm not married to a creep like you!!!!!
We could use a few hundred more.
I went through this with my elderly aunt. I didn't know anything about any of this. Most I talked to, chaplain, nurse, priest, (he must have been busy and didn't seem to want my phone call), presby minister, just about everybody except my sister, were against it and tried to make me feel like I was doing the wrong thing. So I have no confidence in the medical profession when it comes to ethics in this kind of situation. Actually I've had little confidence in the medical profession ethically since abortion became legal. I was on my own.
I couldn't let her starve to death and thought she might be more comfortable, acutely aware that I may be dooming her to possible years of suffering, but I took the risk. And prayed. She lived two weeks after that and died peacefully with only a couple episodes of pain.
Doctors have to be detached in order to survive what they have to deal with on a daily basis or they would go insane imo.
They do heroic things to save some people; I'll be the first to acknowledge that.
If I had been the doctor, I would have had to refuse to remove Terri's feeding tube and would have ruined my career.
This is one of the ten passages of the Bible written in STONE directly by God Himself.
lol, ok so if a person cannot lift their hand to feed themself they are "dying" and we should kill them? So let's kill all the quadriplegics in the world, hell, by that logic let's kill all newborn babies too, they are only "not dying" because someone has to feed them!
Being able to feed yourself is not what determines your humanity, or personhood. Besides, the reason Terri is still on a feeding tube is because her HINO has denied her ANY therapy for the last 10 years...she needs to be re-taught how to eat, etc. He will not even allow her to take a test to see if she can swallow. (we know she can swallow because she doesn't drool) Did it ever occur to you that maybe he WANTS her to be on a feeding tube, so he can be able to "pull the plug"?
http://www.hospicepatients.org/Hosp-FL-Suncoast-entrypage.html
He may be a big pro death liberal but he also knows that a good scandal helps keep the TV ratings up. (Kobe is a good example of this.) And if this doesn't qualify than I don't know what does.
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