Posted on 12/03/2004 10:58:32 AM PST by JesseHousman
In September, the Florida Supreme Court sent an unequivocal message by unanimous vote to Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature that their hastily passed law to extend the life of Terri Schiavo was unconstitutional. In a side note, the court left the door ajar for an appeal. The governor apparently took little heed of the court's first message and decided on an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
That's too bad. The appeal will prolong a case that has been debated in the public forum and argued in state and federal courts for more than six years.
The governor now says that he is entitled to a new trial to determine if Ms. Schiavo actually would have approved of removing the feeding tube that now sustains her life in a vegetative state. ''The fundamental right of anyone, whether it's the governor or an ordinary person, to have their day in court is a big deal,'' Gov. Bush said.
Our hope is that the Supreme Court decides quickly in a way that brings the case to an end. The governor is spending significant state resources on a long-shot legal effort to prove a point rooted, at least in part, in his deeply held personal and religious convictions. Doing so, he injects himself personally in a matter usually left for families to decide. With a denial, the U.S. Supreme Court can say, Enough is enough.
According to The New York Times, ''Any executive who was fired or resigned for good cause would receive the payment.'' Total cost could easily run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is the boardroom equivalent of shoving the passengers aside as the crew and captain scramble to get into the lifeboats. As a reward for incompetence, it may represent a new low in corporate arrogance.
And in the left's opinion: furthering euthanasia to include killing an adult human being will be great!
Thank God for Governor Bush!
Oh, copy boy. This story should be filed under "Women's Health!"
No better than the stinking muslims!
I think they mean remarried ex-husbands should decide. I wouldn't really call that "family" at this point. Her family who loves her wants her to live.
The question has been which family gets to decide? The remarried husband who, I hear, denied her needed medical help. Or the parents that have offered to do anything to help.
Different subject. How many ghosts do you personally represent?
I know there's a few that return from the dead.
If Terri were a dog (or sea turtle, or dolphin, or whale), then the Humane Society, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Animal Planet Channel would swoop in, work their magic and successfully save her from a cruel and unusual death by starvation and dehydration.
They sleep like people without souls or fear of an eternity in hell!
LOL! I would represent three ghosts, but I will not name names.
I know what you mean.
I can't speak for the facts in this case and this kind of case speaks to the importance of leaving living wills and DNR orders etc.......
we don't know whether or not it is true that Terry Schiavo told her husband that if she were ever in a vegetative state she would prefer not to live that way
we don't know if this is an issue of a greedy husband or what though it appears there is no money left for anyone to get their hands on, all being eaten up by this woman's care
common sense would tell me however that is is likely she did say this, I have said it many times myself, which reminds me I better get a living will etc, this kind of thing can happen anytime anywhere, even to the young, I would rather be allowed to die in dignity to end my suffering and that of my family's quite frankly than to live in a vegetative state,
if it were up to God, if we are going to quote religious concerns, this woman would have been dead long ago, and funny if you believe in God, you'd think you would rather your loved one be allowed to make the journey to the afterlife sooner than later to stop their suffering
seems to me we treat animals more humanely, I don't see it as murder at all, sustaining a life that wouldn't be sustainable without life support, medical intervention with NO HOPE OF RECOVERY seems like assault or abuse to me and the reality is doctors and families make these kinds of decisions every day without the courts getting involved
frankly I think the parents of this woman need to let go, but they can't or won't........but nothing you can do I guess if the patient's wishes weren't clearly specified before they were incapable of doing so.......
if my wish was not to live in that state and my family knew that and disregarded my wish, I don't call that love, I call that selfish
Deuteronomy 30:19..."I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...."
Amen.
Yes. Read #7.
The parents are the family. The husband divorced her.
That's fine. But, other than the husband, who's to say what Terri Schiavo said. The husband has been under suspicion of everything from tampering with Terri's intubation to demanding no feeding tube, (even though he didn't have the legal right)to possible wife-beating, to living with a woman and fathering two children by her, despite the fact that his wife is still alive.
On which side would you err? A shmuck like him, or the compassion shown by her parents?
Oh, and by the way, let's not forget that the life insurance would have paid off handsomely for him, if he had been able to pull the plug when he wanted to.
Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men often do go astray.
You would think that if the Miami Herald had one ounce of compassion they would have left this article for a different day. Today is Terri's 41st Birthday! Will the indignities ever cease? Do they have to do this at every turn?
Terri ping! How nice of the Miami Herald! </ sarcasm>
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