[syriacus]

I was doing a search on the Dickens quote about decreasing the surplus population and came across this.

[m87339]

stupid hyperbole

[MikefromOhio]

we're all gonna die!!! NOOOOO!!!!

[northernlightsII]

Good post.TKS

[neutrino]

So first it's people like Terri, then the Alzheimer's sufferers, then perhaps end-stage cancer victims, and so forth.

The post asks who's next. The answer is simple - you and I. And everyone else who gets sick...that's most of us. Should be an interesting time ahead.

[ExTexasRedhead]

I keep thinking of the phrase "there, but for the grace of God, go I." Those sanctioning Terri's murder by means of starvation and dehydration, better hope it doesn't become their fate. Who knows when a car accident or some other unfortunate circumstance befalls any of us. This clamor for death makes me wonder how far we've come since the days at the Roman Colosseum. I'm appalled.

[Lion in Winter]

I liked this writer's candor. She told us what happened when she wrote about Terri. I am not surprised at what happened when she did. America as become a more hateful and rude place for the disabled of which I am one. And, from the looks of the situation with Terri... for anybody who is an avocate for the disabled.

[clamper1797]

Who's next ?? ... anyone who is economically inconvenient

This country WILL reap what it has sown

[glory2]

"If they had rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."

It is quite interesting you picked this Charles Dickens quote. My teen daughter came home from school telling us they had discussion in class where a teen in class argued that Terri should die. My daughter kept asking why can't she be allowed to live? But, he couldn't come up with an intelligent answer. My daughter seeing the same spirit in this young man she saw in Scrooge(and who is a great fan of the Christmas Carol) quoted your quote, "If they had rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."

.... we are living in a nation of ugly, money hungry, greedy, spiteful, uncharitable, unmerciful Scrooges.

[MarMema]

A neurologist from New Jersey sent me this: "I fear that our culture will push the line further as to who should live and who should die. I fear for the old, the young, the sick and the helpless. I fear becoming one of the helpless. - Maria Choy, M.D.

In a word, immigration. asap.

[MarMema]

Dr. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist whose medical opinion was key to a Florida judge ordering Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed, was on TV this week candidly admitting he doesn't believe Alzheimer's patients have constitutional rights.

Who gave this bottomfeeder television time?

[nopardons]

That's in "A CHRISTMAS CAROL", if that helps any, but has NOTHING whatsoever to do with what's happening in Florida now.

[TheDon]

Terri's death is waking the rest of us up to the fact that killing the non-terminally ill is the law of the land. Unlike the judicially legislated killing of the unborn, the killing of the non-terminally ill has been made the law of the land by our elected officials.

Florida is not the only state with laws that allow the killing of the non-terminally ill by starvation and dehydration. California also has such laws, and I'm sure other states do as well.

[Nevermore]

Well, to answer the question, "Who's next?", I'd have to point out that the Pontiff has a feeding tube stuck down his throat, and that he can't talk. And I'm sure that his reflexes aren't what they used to be.
So it looks like all that's needed is a less-than-reliable witness to step forward and testify that "he really never wanted to live that way" . . .
Lucky for the Pope, he doesn't live in America, I guess.

[mjtobias]

Terri Schiavo Before dehydration

God Bless you Terri in your hour of death

Let everyone who said your beautiful smile was fake be haunted by it for the rest of their days.

[restornu]

Some were murmuring about how long it took to make that video and I say thank God someone had the patiences to work at it......and if she was able to practiced everyday it would continue to talke less time and get better!

I was reminded of learning how to play an instrament or when one who had a stork or is paralized how many tried like hundreds to find the path again, even our blood vessle forum new veins when the can't move in that area......the brain cells even uses other parts of the brain when it needs to our body are a marvelous machine!

They are putting Terri to death by starving!

a video of terri opening her eyes in case you missed it!
http://web.Tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/Terri_Big_Eyes.rm

[tophat9000]

They always kill the cripples first

By the way in old south when a slave was cripple or too old to work did master kill them off or did master still feed them even when they were just a burden on masters bottom line? Did the old south have laws on these types of issues?

[uglybiker]

First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller

[goldstategop]

I know my values. For me, right and wrong is not about seeking approval by the majority. Its about doing the right thing regardless of who approves or disapproves of it.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[ChadGore]

[bigjoesaddle]

How come I have a desire to see Logan's Run?