[HiTech RedNeck]

I was shocked enough at Terri's plight when I came across THIS!

It describes a Florida case 8 years ago where a woman WHO ASKED TO DRINK AND BE FED was dehydrated by court order.

Mock the "Terri Troopers" if you will, but there is a much greater evil to be faced down here than simply HER plight.

[greccogirl]

Oh my God.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Pinging all "Terri Troopers"

[cyn]

h'mmm. Wow! He remembered?? I've not heard him remember what the program was, just "we were watching some tv..." mumble mumble.

And it conflicts with THIS: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007702/posts

Family, Friends Reflect on Schiavo

By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press Writer

October 24, 2003, 10:33 PM EDT

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- Diane Meyer can recall only one time her best friend Terri Schiavo really got angry with her. It was 1981, and it haunts her still.

The recent high school graduates had just seen a television movie about Karen Ann Quinlan, who had been in a coma since collapsing six years earlier and was the subject of a bitter court battle over her parents' decision to take her off a respirator. Meyer told a cruel joke about Quinlan, and it set Terri off.

"She went down my throat about this joke, that it was inappropriate," Meyer says. She remembers Terri wondering how the doctors and lawyers could possibly know what Quinlan was really feeling or what she would want.

"Where there's life," Meyer recalls her saying, "there's hope."

Twenty-two years later and suffering from brain damage, Terri is now the subject of a similar debate -- and so is the question of just what choice she would make about her life and death.

Entire article at: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brain-damaged-woman-profile,0,2786165.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[PeyersPatches]

"I was shocked enough at Terri's plight when I came across THIS!"


I can't believe this is happening in our own country. And yet its. This has to be stopped. This IS Nazi Germany.

[Agnes Heep]

Something is terribly wrong somewhere.

[shhrubbery!]

The time has come for the best legal minds in the country to draft model legislation that will tighten existing laws so as to give every reasonable legal benefit of the doubt to life rather than, as too often happens now, to slow death by dehydration.

Absolutely. But I fear such legislation will be sabotaged by the "right-to-die"-ers.

OTOH, there may be some good signs the public is rejecting the "right to die" movement. Didn't the people of Washington State vote down a "doctor assisted suicide" referendum?

[Publius Maximus]

"Right to die" translated from Orwellian means "Right to take an inconvenient life".

[Gelato]

Our world is upside down.

We are now assuming a person would want to die after becoming disabled. It's no longer about "right to die," it's about killing the weakest and most helpless among us.

The right to die is canceling out the right to live.

[viaveritasvita]

Amen and amen!!

[EternalVigilance]

Consider this my living will:

"No matter what medical circumstances may arise, no matter how dire, my desire and intent is to fight death by any and every means possible; with the help of any and every human being who is willing to give me such assistance."

signed,
TH

[MHGinTN]

This is the stage of pretext/pretense ... the forces pause to convince America that even a casual mention is sufficient to base the putting down of an inconvenient dependent. Soon, sooner than we could imagine, the pretext/pretense will be dropped and licensed physicians will be authorized to decide without court oversight. It is what Felos (and apparently Greer) seek to establish in this nation. It is the fundamental goal of the modern euthanasia movement. It is already institutionalized with abortion on demand.

[livius]

What a horrible story! But thanks for posting this.

I hope that many people - even liberals who are fundamentally pro-death - will ask themselves some long hard questions after reading things like this. Obviously, Alan Dershowitz has started to do so...

[texasbluebell]

With Stone's report in hand, the judge ruled that the dehydration should be completed, apparently on the theory that Marjorie did not have the competence to request the medical treatment of food and water. Before an appalled Stone could appeal, Nighbert died on April 6, 1995.

So a famished, parched woman is not competent enough to ask for food and water?

What has happened to us?

[yhwhsman]

While discussing the movie, Michael claims that Terri stated she would not want to live hooked up to a "machine" (she's not), or be a "burden" (her parents don't consider her a burden and want to care for her). Michael's brother, Scott, backs up his claim, while his sister-in-law, Joan, told the court that Terri had approved of pulling the life support from the dying baby of a mutual friend and said that if she ever wrote a "will" she would say that she didn't want "tubes."

I'm confused (normal). One statement I read said that it was after Terri's grandmother's funeral (her grandmother had been on life support) on the way home where she made the statement she didn't ever want to be hooked up on a ventilator. Which story is true?