Posted on 03/31/2005 6:55:11 AM PST by Eurotwit
Breaking now on CNN
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Where's the rest?
To the point and right on target. Thank you.
That little word 'shall' made this a death warrant for Terri.
Since when does a probate judge get to issue death warrants in the United States of America? Especially on helpless citizens who have never even been charged with a crime...
Since when can any judge overrule the most fundamental and important principle of our republic?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the legislature passed some law, only to have it thrown out by (you guessed it) a judge with an agenda.
Based on what the court determined to be Terri Schiavo's wishes - if it's established that this is what she wanted, then the court is empowered to cause compliance with those wishes.
458.326 Florida Statute: Intractable Pain; Authorized Treatment. -- (4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, and no treatment authorized by this section may be used for such purpose.
782.08 Florida Statute: Assisting Self-Murder. -- Every person deliberately assisting another in the commission of self-murder shall be guilty of manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s.775.082, s. 775.083 or s.775.084.
Florida's prohibitions against assisted suicide protects not only the terminally ill, but also the disabled, the elderly, the chronically ill, the severely handicapped.
Withholding food and water by mouth is a deliberate act to end life and is prohibited in the Florida statutes! "Helping" Terri kill herself is assisted suicide and is also prohibited in the Florida statutes.
I thought you knew everything.
So, you're basing your entire argument on the obvious lie of Michael Schiavo...hearsay.
Shifting sand, that...
Not that I know of. If the Florida leg. wanted to write a law that says that food and water can only be withdrawn if a patient expresses it to ten different witnesses via carved stone tablets, then they certainly have the power to do so. They didn't. They'd like you to blame judges for the shortcomings of the law, but I suggest you don't buy it when voting time comes - they've pulled that "it's not our fault" business for far too long now, IMO.
Parents are forever your parents. Children are forever your children. I cannot come close to imagining the true extent of their grief...Mrs. Schindler's especially. There are simply no words as this has continued to sink in throughout the day.
I'm sure you can direct me to the post where I claimed to "know everything". In the meantime, what it looks like to me is that you don't have anything to support your contention. If that's not the case, feel free to post the rest.
Homicide. You're defending homicide by the state.
Support my contention of what? Repeating what the judge ordered? Greer said NO FOOD AND WATER BY MOUTH.
Or what do you not understand?
Patients have the right to refuse medical treatment, and it is not considered assisted suicide, else the law permitting refusal is meaningless - you're not going to find any court in any state that accepts arguments based on the notion that a particular law is inherently meaningless and without effect. In this case, that refusal came via her legal guardian. If you don't like that outcome, and I sense you don't, then perhaps the laws on guardianship should be changed in Florida.
The law allows precisely that. Perhaps the Florida legislature should take that into account as they reconsider the state of the law.
What do you make of post #2146 then?
And properly so. The effect of the anger and frustration of the past few days have caused more brush clearing, old leaf raking and transplanting in my back yard that it has ever seen before.
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