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To: MizSterious

No, he could have lived for a very very long time. All of us chose not to put HIM through this. Your arguments about thrill seeking by starvation is ridiculus on its face. No one has said it was bliss full at all. And to suggest that Terri is in good physical condition is also beyond belief. I suppose laying there like that in the contorted state she is in is normal to you, but no thank you let me go by any means necessary. I have met many many parents of children who are very ill with cancer and what not. One of my very best friend's son was in the last stages of cancer from a brain tumor. She is very much a christian woman. She sat with him for 15-hours straight as he was dying. Jordan was just under two years old. We parents that were present, took turns spoon feeding her while she held her son. Jordan suffered unbearable pain before he died. She told me later (she is a nurse herself) that she was so tempted to give him a lethel injection of morphine. I swear if it was readily available I bet she would have done it. I know this is not the same in this case. But people make these decisions everyday in this country. And for people in Terri's condition like my uncle, feeding tubes are removed daily in homes and hospitals.


149 posted on 03/27/2005 9:41:13 AM PST by Beeline40@aol.com (What is an Esthetician...?)
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To: Beeline40@aol.com
"No one has said it was bliss full at all."

I have an Easter dinner to cook (and give thanks to the Almighty that we are blessed with the ability to eat it), so I can't address all of this--but this statement is patently false. Felos said that in an interview. I'll reserve my opinion of those people who agree with that ghoul for now. It's Easter.

162 posted on 03/27/2005 9:55:55 AM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Beeline40@aol.com
1. did your uncle express that he wanted to go?
2. was your family in complete unanimity if he did not express himself?
3. if dr k. had been available would you have called him?

I have no problem with any of the three. Imy wife and I have been in the health care field for 20 years and have dealt with many chronic and dying patients. I have seen ventilators removed and overdoses of Morphine. I have never seen g-tubes pulled( i put them in) to starve someone- perhaps this is common in some states not others. I would rather have dr k. do it quickly than drag it out over 2 weeks.
However in the absence of 1 and 2 (which is in the TS) case I think we are going down a slippery slope . Obviously we can save SS and Medicare by euthanizing GOMERS , but I'm not there yet and I trust MS as much as scott peterson.
Can you imagine what SP's decision would be if Laci were in a debilitated state?
164 posted on 03/27/2005 9:57:07 AM PST by avile
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