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To: AZ_Cowboy

I dont know why, but I really didn't pay attention to this story much until recently, I just couldn't believe they were going to let her just die.

I watched my Dad die slowly from Alzhiemers/Dementia, and there was no way I was going to smother him with a pillow/slip him a toxic cocktail/shoot him to make him die earlier just because he wasn't going to get better.

At the worst, we would have sedated him to die painless from whatever was killing him at the moment. He was on a DNR from the day he went in anyways, we knew he was never going to get better, so, letting him die from whatever was killing him was bad enough.

But to actually create some situation where we would be the source and control of what would eventually kill him, that would be murder.

He was not some flame thrower victim in combat who would not survive the trip to sick bay because of 100% burns, he was not injured with all limbs broken and bleeding profusely 100 miles from civilization and putting him out of his misery, he was in a nursing home/hospital.

So is Terry Schiavo.

Taking out the feeding tube is murder, and her husband plans to profit from it. I am privately convinced he has movie deals, book deals already in the works detailing "his" pain and suffering.

And that is all this is. HIS suffering he is worried about. I know it personnaly, I was relieved my father died last August because it meant I would not have to go see him like that and it meant my Mother would not have to go and see him die every day she went and did his laundry and feed him and bathe him like she did. It took away her pain of seeing him suffer. And that means more to me than my Dad's suffering because he was going to die, she is quite well and alive and has to carry on without him. I pitied her and was thankful he died so she didn't have to suffer watching him die.

JEB Bush needs to declare a state emergency, activate the National Guard and go inside that hospice and take her out and give her to her parents.

If she dies later, naturally, it would still be the right thing to do.


23 posted on 03/23/2005 4:16:19 PM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: RaceBannon

i'm with you.


48 posted on 03/23/2005 5:25:25 PM PST by bitt
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To: RaceBannon
JEB Bush needs to declare a state emergency, activate the National Guard and go inside that hospice and take her out and give her to her parents. If she dies later, naturally, it would still be the right thing to do.

I think it's high time we showed the courts that the PEOPLE set laws pertaining to morality or any Constitutional issue.

61 posted on 03/23/2005 6:22:01 PM PST by writer33 ("In Defense of Liberty," a political thriller, being released in March)
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To: RaceBannon

Wow... You told my story as well. Thanks.


108 posted on 03/23/2005 10:38:15 PM PST by Humidston (Rats = Party of DEATH)
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