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To: hershey
Last night I had dinner with a friend and her mute, handicapped, 46 year old son. She was very frightened of what the consequences of Terri's enforced death might mean for her son.

A lot of us with disabled children are starting to ask ourselves if we will be in this situtation ourselves. I believe a genie may have been loosed on us.

I'm nervous as hell.

2,352 posted on 03/31/2005 6:09:15 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown

I know exactly what that kind of fear is like. I have disabled children as well.


2,367 posted on 03/31/2005 6:16:01 PM PST by sfimom (AP 'Decisions to end feedings for patients goes on all the time' (Does this make it OK???))
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To: pbrown
I have an adult disabled dtr, thankfully, not so severe......

I want the ones who defended Terri's murder, as "letting her go" or other nonsense, to tell me, what mental institutions do we start with first?.....

what nursing homes?..

but, I am tired of fighting....

Lord, send us the grace we need to accept this terrible fate....

prayers to Terri's family.....

2,377 posted on 03/31/2005 6:21:19 PM PST by cherry
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To: pbrown

You, we, all of us need to raise our voices loud and clear to make sure our laws preserve life and never promote what amounts to murder. Even more pressing is the need to ensure that medical/health decisions aren't made on the basis of monetary and so called 'productive personhood' considerations. It's outrageous, unthinkable, but that's just what happened in Terri's case. She was inconvenient, and there was money to be made, so she was done away with.


2,396 posted on 03/31/2005 6:28:33 PM PST by hershey
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