Posted on 03/25/2005 5:01:12 PM PST by Wolfstar
Pinging you FYI
We'll be seeing more of them. Count on it.
Yes, we will, as the huge baby boom generation moves into their senior years.
Agreed. I was unaware that starving the mentally disabled to death was already standard practice in the US. Pretty scary stuff!
I believe the passion is due to the fact that her husband received a monetary award because he promised to take care of her for the rest of his life and after receiving same he stopped all therapy for her chances of recovery!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the case of Quinlan...Was she also taken off of all nourishment? Or just life support machines?
google cranford+Cruzan+schiavo
I had pointed this out for the whole month stating what about the passion for the many who don't get press coverage?
Doesn't make this any less a horror though.
Quinlan was removed from a respirator, Cruzan was starved to death like Terri.
I do not know how old you are, but I REMEMBER this case well.
I was quite pleased that she lived WITHOUT that respirator... for 9 years or so.
Why the different levels of concern ~ probably because the Schiavo case is different.
Stated above: Why? Because the only thing unique about the Schiavo case is the epic family feud propelling it into the headlines.
In other words, it isn't about her, it's about the publicity and the way the public has been manipulated into taking sides in this case.
Good questions. Most cases are handled quietly between family and doctor.
Our local newspaper has headlined for a couple of days now families faced with similar decisions and what they did and why.
It's an intensely personal decision for a family and their stories have been gut wrenching and never easily made.
The Wolson Report submitted to Jeb Bush, which was formatted into HTML tonight, makes extensive mention of this matter with the full understanding that there are slippery slopes in both directions.
A national conversation will result from this and that's a good thing. I had not realized until earlier in the week that people did not understand that a huge number of people are taken off feeding tubes in this country in hospitals and nursing homes every day of the week. So people need to pay more attention to the various kinds of life support including feeding tubes.
For those interested, this is the official position of the Unitd States Conference of Catholic Bishops. There are a great many instances, including Terri's, where death by starvation is permitted within church doctrine.
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/euthanas/nutqa.htm
I understand the Vatican has released a different statement and one would hope there would be some commonality between them but if there is, I haven't seen it.
But, as an earlier poster noted, there was a great deal of concern with the other two cases that made the news. YOu just don't remember.
IMO, this case has garned all the media attention for two
primary reasons:
1. inability to confirm her wishes
2. the release of the culled videos
Sadly, this matter should have been resolved within her family.
The answers are above. However: Cruzan was taken off nourishment and died shortly thereafter. Quinlan's parents only wanted her removed from a respirator. She lived 10 years after being removed from it.
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