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To: blueriver

But Greer didn't question why Michael only remembered that Terri wouldn't want to live "like this" seven years after she collapsed, AFTER he got a $1M malpractice award, based on Terri lifing out a normal life span.


226 posted on 03/26/2005 8:50:32 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
The Concentration Camps

Emily Hobhouse tells the story of the young Lizzie van Zyl who died in the Bloemfontein concentration camp: "She was a frail, weak little child in desperate need of good care. Yet, because her mother was one of the 'undesirables' due to the fact that her father neither surrendered nor betrayed his people, Lizzie was placed on the lowest rations and so perished with hunger that, after a month in the camp, she was transferred to the new small hospital. Here she was treated harshly. The English disposed doctor and his nurses did not understand her language and, as she could not speak English, labelled her an idiot although she was mentally fit and normal. One day she dejectedly started calling:

LIZZIE VAN ZYL

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Mother! Mother! I want to go to my mother! One Mrs Botha walked over to her to console her. She was just telling the child that she would soon see her mother again, when she was brusquely interrupted by one of the nurses who told her not to interfere with the child as she was a nuisance." Shortly afterwards, Lizzie van Zyl died.

231 posted on 03/26/2005 8:53:56 PM PST by AndrewC (All these moments are tossed in lime, like trains in the rear.)
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