Posted on 04/11/2005 3:54:53 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Well, which is it, Einstein? Did she actually speak, no matter what she said, or how badly she could enunciate or communicate? Or is she in a PVS? You can't have it both ways you know.
And alot of us beg to differ on the credibility of these "every credible doctor" types you seem to believe no matter what.
Also, we don't *know* her wishes! She didn't leave written wishes. And the judge wouldn't allow her friends to testify to what she'd told them.
Hearsay is when you say that someone said something and you have no proof of it other than your word. Doesn't change a darn thing when the person who says he *heard* her say that something is her husband.
Now if they had a credible third person witness, that's different.
I don't believe that Schiavo, his brother or his sister in law should be believed and not Terri's friends who heard her say different.
IF our Constitution does NOT APPLY/PROTECT/HAVE MERIT, for ONE of us, then WHY would it have VALUE for the REST OF US??????
And you really think that Schiavo, Felos and Greer let Terri "die with dignity?"
You really believe that starving and dehydrating to death is a dignified way to go? Where is the dignity in that kind of death/murder?
Terri's dying with dignity was in her fight for her life and she fought long and hard those 13 days to stay alive, her dying with dignity wasn't in her horrendous death.
Remember Terri was tortured to death, where a criminal when given lethal injection is just put to sleep. Terri was purly TORTURED for 12 days. Shame on America!
Then why didn't they just put her to sleep like they do criminals? Why torture her in the most satanic way for 12 or 13 days? Death by dehydration alone is as bad as it gets, plus starvation. THINK!
RIGHT ON Earthdweller!!!!!!! Excellent POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OHhhhhhh I so relate to your post. My mom died in 96 and dad in 94. There is not a day goes by , but what I don't miss those two precious parents!!!
not to mention that said UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND forGOT that TERRI said that she " wanted to die" until AFTER he won the SETTLEMENT that was supposed to "Care for his precious wife for years"!!!!!!!!!
You need to understand being dehydrated and starved to death IS NOT just letting go. Put yourself in her shoes. Would you want to be dehydrated and starved to death, or just put to sleep, or even beheaded? Much less suffering with those last two..Huh?
Her situation was quite different from YOUR father's.
She was STARVED and DEHYDRATED to death. There is no digity or kindness in such a death. ASTOUNDING that you cannot see it or discern the difference between her circumstances and your father's.
There are a lot of people in this world who cannot eat in the 'normal way' - we certainly should not starve them to death. Terri was not dying of some incurable disease nor was she on a respirator or any other 'machine'. She merely could not eat on her own just as many disabled people cannot today. This case has many horrible aspects to it but the bottom line is that she had loving parents who wanted to care for her and as a healthy, but disabled woman she surely had the right to life and to be FED. It is disgusting when people try to say that since they wouldn't want to 'live like she did' without truly knowing how she felt that she should be denied the right to food and water. SICK - it is SICK and in fact it is NAZI'ish.... I just wonder how many have really studied the facts and the misinformation in this case as I have.... FOR YEARS
Exactly right - some people think they can determine what another person's 'quality of life' is and I am sure they would do this to many people. Hitler would be proud - as would Margaret Sanger, noted lover of killing the infirm and those she deemed 'less worthy' of life by HER determination. She was founder of Planned Parenthood - she was a racist too!
"The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. And ever since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes."
John Adams - letter to John Taylor
You have no idea of the facts of this case. Please do not post until you become knowledgeable.
Thanks
I disagree with your position, to say the least.
BTW, quote "God take her/his course" .. Her?? Confusion abounds.
Huh?
God the Father is not a woman and gets highly ticked off if people use that terminology. Check out the Book of Jeremiah, for starters. Tough language in there on this kind of Bravo Sierra.
I'm sorry to hear about your dad. You only have one set of parents ( a dad and a mom) and neither one can be replaced.
Sanctity of Marriage? A great excuse for murder you make it. Murder's never holy. Nor was Michael married to Terri in much of a "Sanctity of Marriage" way. His children were not Terri's, his manhood found a different furrow to plow night after night after night, and more than one furrow too from some reports. Not very sanctified, eh? More like abused, corrupted, broken.
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