Posted on 03/21/2005 3:14:03 PM PST by goldstategop
Feeding tubes are artificial?
How about baby bottles are they artificial? If so then perhaps we should let infants who's mothers can't nurse die of starvation?
I have faced this decision and I think the guidance that "heroic" measures need not be taken. But sustenance, food.
People come out of comas after longer than 3 months.
There is more to this decision than your post acknowledges.
George Washington, letter to James Warren, March 31, 1779
Why is Terri being treated no better than slave to her derelict and abusive husband's wishes?
I wonder how many fans Rush lost over this one. Many people, even here, have an almost pathological desire to see this woman dead. If they could smash in her skull with a chunk of concrete, I believe they would convince themselves it was the moral thing to do.
How about baby bottles are they artificial? If so then perhaps we should let infants who's mothers can't nurse die of starvation?
What, another liberal?
Yes, feeding tubes are artificial, and so are baby bottle; and aspirins for that matter. (And bourbon is artificial. Can man live without bourbon?) I never suggested that everything artificial is bad.
I only said that I would not want to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Do I have that right, or must you decide, in Teddy Kennedy fashion, for me because you think you know what is better for me and my family than I do?
ML/NJ
You are just being logically inelegant by drawing the line at "artificial".
How about kidney dialysis, should they all die because this is an artificial process? Christopher Reeve on a portable respirator, pretty artificial. How about prostheses? Don't want people walking on artificial limbs.
I am objecting because by blurring the clear line between sustenance and medical measures you make it easier to starve someone who is helpless.
By the way Teddy would probably want to kill Terri Schiavo because her "husband" found a more active partner and he wouldn't want to invade the lovebird's privacy.
Rush is the man, and I always like his show. But I noticed a significant number of Democrats -- 46, I believe -- voted FOR the bill last night, which 4 Republicans said, "No." I was glad to see it wasn't severely along party lines, indicating it is a more of a human issue than a political issue. So... I was a little disappointed that Laura and Rush gave it the political spin this morning.
No doubt, some of the Dems speeches were absolutely appalling and they generally support the right-to-die death culture. But, at least in this vote, I saw some humanity.
I think you should read what I wrote. The line I drew was three continuous months of not being able to recognize my children and Mozart.
ML/NJ
And at the end of that time should you be naturally starved to death or naturally have a bullet put through your crainium?
Okay?
ML/NJ
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