its not the old people that should be in fear...its the youngest and most vulnerable....the disabled.......
Most people don't seem to get why this Schaivo case is so devastating.....
its not because Terri can ever be "whole" again, and its not that tube feedings are that pain free in and of themselves( diarrhea, sore bottom, regurgitation, aspiration, etc)
the point is she has been living, living well under the circumstances, without apparent health problems, without pain, for 15 yrs.....
and suddenly, someone is tired of her so they are going to KILL HER......
now, can we go do that to every diabled person in the state hospitals and nursing homes?....afterall, if all it takes is one person to say they "KNOW" what that person wanted, then all these people are in desparate straights....
its the ease at which we are willing to kill ......
G-d bless you all - I have to go to bed and get my beauty sleep (otherwise someone might starve me to death, y'know - can't have any people with bags under their eyes around polluting our aesthetic environment. . .)my mother and I are going to meet Newt Gingrich at a David Horowitz thing tomorrow. I told my friend who's coordinating it to tell the Newtster to GET READY FOR HEAVY QUESTIONING about what he and other activists are planning to do about this. Anybody have any questions they want me to pass on, please let me know.
Cherry,
The reason I say the old folks is something my husband point out. It wasn't Social Security.
It's about thier assets.
Families have been splitting up like crazy from the 60's on with no real attachements in the 2nd or 3rd marriages between the children and the step's, so to speak.
Once dad or mom are gone and only the step (example, of course) is left, all that has to be done to get their property is for when stepmom or stepdat goes into a nursing (or the like) the kids say is that he/she said he/she would rather long linger on.
Homes get money, kids get assets.
Scarey.
And it'll be done real quietly.
I thought he was crazy. Until I thought about the people I know and realized a lot of them didn't/don't bond with the steps.
Now, this is a given scneario if states quietly change the laws to match Florida's Heresay thingy....