Posted on 04/01/2005 8:05:46 PM PST by FairOpinion
Do you want a judge to be able to deny you sips of water or ice chips, even as you die? Do you want a judge to forbid you from offering comfort in the form of a spoon full of cool water to your child as he or she dies?
That was enough for the Court.
Of course, you want to dismiss their testimony based on how you "feel" about them.
Why of COURSE... because... because... they might CHOKE TO DEATH [/sarc]
Has anybody noticed that the Pope stopped eating around the time that Terri was sentenced to death by having her feeding tube pulled? He denounced what the american left was doing to kill this woman. He didn't eat either, however he was granted water, more than Terri was allowed, they even gave him a feeding tube, but it was not tolerated, now he is dying as well.
Because something is "good enough for the Court" it's automatically good enough for the people for whom the government is supposed to be of, by, and for?
Terri...don't ask me bull$hit rhetorical questions.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then take the time to find out on your own, or go on to a different topic where you are more familiar with the details.
I am not obligated to either educate you, or amuse you.
It is NOT the question of how I "feel", it is the question of a lot of conflicting statements and "information".
I also heard the statement of Terri's best friend, who said that MS was very controlling, that he wouldn't let Terri go anywhere, checked the mileage on her car, to make sure she came right home after work, and that Terri told this friend that she wanted to leave MS. And this was not just a statement she made, when in a bad mood, but they were actually planning on getting an apartment, talked about how they will furnish it, etc., which shows Terri was seriously considering it.
Then suddenly she suffers this unexplained "collapse"...
You just contradicted yourself in the space of one paragraph.
And, here's the $64,000 question: is it good enough for God?
Thank you for pointing out the real act of intentional murder in this case: the denial of both artificial and natural means of hydration and nutrition.
That is your assumption and it is wrong.
MY feelings have nothing, aboslutely nothing, to do with this. Michael Schiavo's own very flawed and contradictory testimonies and actions are clearly indicative of a man who was unfit to make any decision regarding this woman's care, much less her life.
You don't know the answer so don't bother to respond.
Zogby's questions were even more slanted than the MSM.
Is it good enough for God?
Mmmm...
Thirty years ago, Terri Schiavo would have died.
We are playing God in extending life beyond a point where traditionally life would have ceased.
With all due respect, I do not believe the Pope is somehow supernaturally partaking of this woman's suffering and death. The Pope has been ill for quite sometime. His decline and Terri's death have nothing in common.
Yes, and there are statutes in the State of Florida which require caregivers to provide nutrition and hydration to disabled persons. The statutes do not make an exception for 'next of kin' to kill their inconveninent disabled relatives by starvation and dehydration.
But for Judge Greer's order, one would expect the Pinellas County Sherriff's office to haul off in manacles anyone starving and dehydrating their next of kin.
If I am a vegetable and and water is all that is keeping me trapped in a such a miserable state of limbo, then by all means deny it.
It's preferable to suffering years on end.
Generally, I agree with you. Yet when a state law or judicial decision compromises Constitutional rights, I would expect Federal intervention.
Greer's interpretation of clear and convincing doesn't seem to pass the common sense test and did show that the Florida law needs fixing or risk further cynical application.
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