Here's the "slippery slope" the pro-Terri people have been worried about.
This wasn't a family member making the decision, it was a bunch of over-educated euthanasia providers in lab coats that wanted to do this.
It is the slippery slope to socialism. These people want the hospital to treat the man for free.
Exactly what I was worried about - but I was thinking of the liberals being the deathmen - not the medical people.
The doctors get to decide, courtesy of a law signed in 1999 by Governor George W. Bush.
That's OK, though. Just get Congress to intervene. They've already greased the skids.
There are plenty of situations like this they can't wait to get in the middle of.
Nothing new here, folks...Move along please...
The "slippery slope" they've been worried about is Michael Schiavo, his lawyer, and the judge. They aint worried about anything else.
This is also WHY the paper chose to print this.
They obviously prefer death.
I'm more worried about another "slippery slope" - people who think they should have a say in someone's DNR decision or who disagree with a valid living will, suing family members before or after the patient's death. It's a lawyer's dream!
Its stopping a machine intervention to keep this man breathing which probably should have never been started in the first place...
this is not food...its not water...its a MACHINE ....
why does this family want their supposedly beloved on a machine for the rest of his life????....is it his pension....is it his social security?....
it can't be love....it can't be respect or caring....
its one thing to stop tube feedings but an entirely differant thing to stop a breathing machine...one can be argued that is is "ordinary" care, while the breathing machine is extra ordinary ....
this guy is on Medicare.....so that means I am paying every week so his family can visit a body with a tube in his trachea....
I would rather pay for vacinations for little children, or perhaps flu shots for every American free of charge....