Posted on 04/03/2005 2:09:33 PM PDT by FairOpinion
I think Terri's case will create a backlash. The euthanasia advocates wanted to make her as their posterchild -- that was behind the zeal of Felos -- to make it easier to get rid of inconvenient people, but I think there will be laws enacted -- which the judiciary may or may not feel like recognizing -- to protect the rights of the defenseless.
There are some who are interested in going a lot further than that.
They want to make it illegal to refuse treatment, any treatment, either viva voce if concious or via living will if not.
Given half a chance, they will keep the unwilling hooked to tubes by force and in painful useless treatments as long as possible.
So9
Neither extreme is appropriate.
You are jumping from one extreme to the other.
There was an article posted last week on FR from the "Weekly Standard", hardly a radical publication, calling for exactly that, making 'the right to die' illegal.
SO9
No, afraid not, there are too many ghouls who want only the healthy, elite to breathe earth's air.
When man takes on God's realm, man fails miserably because man is man not a god. Man does not love all, man is not impartial and fair. Man's decisions will seek the lowest denominator because we live in a world of sin - not a world filled with many gods.
I would prefer God make the decisions that belong to God.
You will die. I promise. No one can take that away from you.
Anyone who wants to die is not mentally capable of making their own decisions. By definition, no one can consent to being murdered.
Really?
Get in my way when the time comes and I'll take you with me.
SO9
It's easy to see which of us is reasonable and moral and which is a deranged violent animal who need to be controlled and locked up.
Stupid me! I had always thought the "DUE PROCESS" guarenteed in the 14th amendment, mean that a person had to be found guilty of a crime to be sentenced to death. But, I guess if property can be taken away under an 'eminent domain' clause, so can life.
This is so totally ridiculous. Has anyone, ever, been able to prevent death? The way this doctor puts it, it sounds like legislatures are making enforceable laws against dying, and people who are eager to die will now have to go get a judge's permission to do it! As if any of us had a choice about the matter!
You threaten to Interfere in my life and I promise to kill you.
No one has any right to decide how soon to end my life but me, whether they want to take it against my will, or extend it against my will.
SO9
For one thing, bigamists husbands should be required to SHUT UP.
Your deranged and violent mental illness precludes you from being allowed to make decsions for yourself.
Sure Joe, anything you say Joe. Just sterp away from the bottle and calm down.
After all, which of us has the screen name of a certified alcoholic and psychotic?
SO9
"No one has any right to decide how soon to end my life but me, whether they want to take it against my will, or extend it against my will."
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I certainly agree with this. The tragic point in Terri's case is that they DID take her life against her will and in a most torturous, brutal way, and they did it all "legally."
I agree totally, every day Terri lied there starving to death the more damage that was done to the euthanasia movement. We don't starve pets to death and we shouldn't do that to humans either, no matter how little pain medical professionals say they are in. The euthanasia movement would have been better off if the doctors would have shot her up with something or if her husband would walked into the room and stuck a pillow over her face.
It was perfectly fine in your mind for someone else to make Terri Schiavo's decisions for her, but then that's because you wanted her to die. You are just fine with the state deciding to kill people, just not with saving them.
Oh, and McCarthy was right, pinko.
there should be a law that negates the "spouse's" influence if he or she is shacked up with another person.
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