To: Racehorse
you believe living people should be euthanized. "Breathing" does not equate to "living." "Living" means retention of previous cognitive faculties. Poor Terri had previously lost hers. She died 15 years ago. Only the shell 'lived' on.
To: winstonchurchill
"Breathing" does not equate to "living." "Living" means retention of previous cognitive faculties. Poor Terri had previously lost hers. She died 15 years ago. Only the shell 'lived' on.So, you have redefined what we medically accept as death and then determined some lives, however minimal, should not be allowed to continue.
174 posted on
04/03/2005 12:45:02 PM PDT by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: winstonchurchill
We have no idea that's the case, as Michael stopped all therapy in 1992. Had he continued therapy, Terri might have recovered completely for all anyone knows. And when it comes to making such diagnoses, doctors have been notoriously wrong.
Furthermore, doctors, nurses, family, friends and priests ALL said Terri responded to them. I guess THEY were ALL lying.
180 posted on
04/03/2005 12:52:25 PM PDT by
TAdams8591
(Evil succeeds when good men don't do enough!!!!!!)
To: winstonchurchill
Funny, her parents thought she was more than a "shell". Unfortunately for Terri, she became a major inconvenience for her adulterous husband. That's why she's dead - plain and simple.
200 posted on
04/03/2005 2:45:24 PM PDT by
mlc9852
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