Posted on 02/17/2005 5:36:43 PM PST by xzins
ping to self for later pingout.
Thanks for the ping!
Goodnight prayer for Terri!
Millions of innocents have already been murdered in cruel and horrible fashions just because they came to life at an "inappropriate" time. The Shiavo thing just makes me want to wretch. God help any of us who, for whatever reason end up in a conscious, but unable to vocalize, state of being.
Thanks for the warning. I will be seeing a lawyer about it, and I've been thinking about it a lot. I know all the ways a lawyer can twist what seems to be a clear statement into something not even resembling its obvious meaning. I do have the advantage that my husband is NOT a Michael Schiavo, so I'm fairly certain that if I became unable to talk, he wouldn't be trying to get legal permission to murder me!
A lawyer is good, but a doctor or someone in the medical field will also be important to consult. The terms they use will have medical and legal meanings. For instance, attending physician may not mean only your doctor. It can refer to the emergency room doc. There's loads of ways things need to be assessed before you sign. Just keep your eyes wide open.
Obviously little is known about the power of judges, in Florida they even make the honorable judiciary look like dishonest jerks. Can you imagine being able to take a campaign contribution from an attorney in a high profile case and not expect the "Globe" to think your dishonest and because you have muddied and wallowed in dirt, you gotta know its going to rub off on your peers. Well it was legal, but in my book totally unethical and if one can, why not all of them. I'm not so sure I wouldn't go out of state to write a living will.
They have my vote on a moratorium! Terri has no rights, but my dog has them a plenty, even the fish. If I starve or dehydrate any of them it is punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and three years in jail. Let us study all of the ramifications but let us never condone starvation and dehydration of any living creature, man or beast. That is the most horrible of deaths. Michael chooses it for Terri because her old man wanted her to receive treatment, now he is so vengeful he can't see that his actions will impact his children 20 years from now and probably a lot sooner.
I do have an advantage in that I am a doctorate level biochemist and medical terms aren't that much of a mystery to me; I have much more concern about lawyers and their ability to twist language and make even simple words mean something quite different depending on the lawyer's intent. I will be quite careful!
That's good to hear! Good luck with that!
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