Posted on 01/14/2005 1:09:55 AM PST by amdgmary
If it is sooooo wonderful, perhaps Michael should try it first. We'll see how he does with it before using his wife as a guinea pig.
Ping
I'm curious - who's paying for her continued treatment?
Tears and prayers here...
Medicare if paying for Terri's stay at Hospice. Her estranged husband, Michael Schiavo, does not pay a penny.
Terri is not terminally ill so she's being held at Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park illegally. Hospice is making a lot of money off of a disabled woman who is not terminally ill.
You see, I am undecided on euthanasia - mainly because I've never had to face a hard a situation where it's come up as a choice for anyone I know. But I'm wondering how many on this board will be content to see Medicare keep thousands of baby boomers alive indefinitely. I see this issue as becoming a lot hotter over the next 10 years.
BUMP
It can be pretty expensive to pay for someone's medical care when they're disabled. Terri was awarded about $1.3 million, but most of that has been spent on lawyers to have her killed. A lot of other people have no insurance and no money to pay for their medical care. It would save us an enormous amount of money if we just starved and dehydrated them all to death. Useless eaters!
FV
How does he know it's easy and painless? My guess is from these comments, this guy is brain-dead and doesn't know it.
I expect that involuntary euthanasia will be widely practiced, albeit discreetly (religious sensibilities are too strong). Even now, nursing homes are full of people who rarely, if every, have a visitor, so who would notice, much less care, when they die?
Right now, we're spending money in this country like the proverbial drunken sailor on leave. The cost of supporting and providing medical care to the Baby Boomers will break the bank. I'm afraid that we'll go to the other extreme, involuntary euthanasia, in a desperate, and perhaps futile, attempt to stave off national bankruptcy.
A democracy inevitably destroys itself, morally and economically, and is replaced by a dictatorship. I think that this is where we are heading for within about 30 years.
bttt.
Torture in America.
Useless eaters is what ADOLPH HITLER called the disabled. He exterminated them before he started murdering people for their ethnic or religious beliefs.
ALL STATES, ALL COUNTRIES.
TERRI DID NOT CHOOSE TO BE HELD CAPTIVE FOR 14 YEARS, BE ROBBED OF HER REHAB MONIES AND TO HAVE DEATH VULTURES SEEK TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HER. TERRI CAN BREATHE ON HER OWN, IS ALERT AND AWARE OF HER SURROUNDINGS, KNOWS DAY FROM NIGHT. She's a person, not a vegetable. FV
Today's death squads aren't as picky as all that. They don't care what ethnicity you are. They don't care what your religious beliefs are. As long as you're weak enough to be easily exterminated, you qualify.
Dear Lord and most merciful Heavenly Father, please spare this innocent child of yours this fate. Lord, make it possible for her parents and family who love her to care for her. Father, remove her from the hands of the evil ones who want to kill her. I humbly ask this in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins and who rose on the third day to give us all everlasting life. Amen.
You, the taxpayer.
A "decision" on Euthanasia based upon personal convenience and money is suicidal for the culture - We will destroy ourselves. "Alive indefinitely" - that's how long we are all alive. Stop feeding us and we will die. These are all red herrings.
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