Posted on 02/18/2005 6:25:20 AM PST by wotan
You're welcome. Bookmark and use those links to fight the outdated beliefs being used as a reason to kill Terri.
Post often. :-)
She is not even in a coma!
Apparently, neither do you.
also was brought up by Allen about there being statements about strangulation concerning Terri, on the night in question. Glad that was brought up....it was a first for many ignorant people to hear about this. (I mean ignorant, in that the media certainly has not gotten that out into their news reports, ever that I can recall.)
I find people are receptive to a true telling and outraged at what they hear.
If we encourage Fox to be more forthcoming on this case, they may respond with better coverage.
I emailed Greta, Roger Ailes, Michelle Malkin.
I think that's very true, Phil. What really bothers me is the intentional DISinformation concerning Terri and HINO.
Called Tort Reform...signed, sealed, delivered...Hopefully, George Bush.
You have no control over this Schivao situation. You are irrelevant! What concern do you have whether she lives or dies! Why can't the husband just give up? Why is he so reluctant? New wife/kids? BS..what is left of the $$? Amazingly, he has spent all of Terri's money on HIS attorney's.
"I think she likes me."
Indeed I do, but I like "Heisenberg" infinitely more, as that is a very rational person, and you are the exact opposite. Really like your little picture pop up though. Our side had a bit of a win today, don't ya know. Yawn, good nite.
But I know and remember that God is always in control. He is watching this play out.
As pertains to those involved with Terri's demise, whether they are active participants, enablers, or those with malice thoughts who just wish for her (and those who are disabled like her) to be killed, each will have their Judgment Day--God sees our actions and knows our hearts and He will hold each one of us accountable not only for evil deeds but for evil thoughts and purposes.
We are commanded to love our neighbor as ourself--that's good enough reason for concern about Terri and what is being done to her, by so many, but most especially, by the man she married and whose duty before God was to love her and protect her, through sickness and health.
Hi Raquel
I too appreciate your well thought out comments and am glad you responded to me. A talk show host today brought up a good point: Why are we denying Terri her entrance to heaven, if as Christians, we believe there is an afterlife? Would not her soul be free, and she would be free from the body she occupies here? (He didn't say that part).
What I was saying that Terri's case is extreme and NOT like a c section (refering to your C section). She has been in this state for 15 years. When you get right down to it, MEDICAL SCIENCE is playing god, no matter which way you look at it. As Christians, why deny this person, who is being fed thru a tube, her rightful place in heaven?
"Why are we denying Terri her entrance to heaven, if as Christians, we believe there is an afterlife? Would not her soul be free, and she would be free from the body she occupies here? (He didn't say that part)."
Terri's body is hers, no matter how incapacitated she may be, it is not our decision to take it away from her. Using that argument is a cop-out because it can be used in any situation where someone is sick. But where's the threshold, who decides who's sick enough to die (it's a slippery slope my friend to say the least)? Nonetheless I'll entertain your proposition, say my body was filled with cancer, and I am in pain, but I offer my sufferings to God, because it is in suffering that we may have eternal life (that's in the bible too!), and I know that killing is a mortal sin, there is no way I would want to be killed, and even if I wasn't faith-filled, no one has the right to kill me! Mercy killing is (in plain English) misguided murder. The culture of death degrades human life and is against God. So in answer to your questions, no no no no no! But thanks for you're thoughtful comments.
"Terri's body is hers, no matter how incapacitated she may be, it is not our decision to take it away from her."
But her parents think that her body is theirs. I don't think its our decision to help her to live either. How many of us here on the list would make the choice to live the way she is living? We all need living wills and if anything, we need to do something about getting them asap. I think we can all agree this is a very very horribly sad situation for all involved. Take care.
"I don't think its our decision to help her to live either."
Help her to live? Yes, don't you see? We have to, they're trying to kill her!
They are trying to let her die, which is not the same as killing.
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