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The issue is not whether Terry Schrivo was in a persistent vegetative state or not....

The issue was as a society should we allow another fellow human starve to death because we determined that their life as it is is less valuable than ours......

Whether Terry Schrivo remained in that state or could have recovered is not germaine...

NeverGore :^)

10 posted on 04/12/2005 7:43:01 AM PDT by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)

should we allow another fellow human starve to death because we determined that their life as it is is less valuable than ours......

Some freepers seem to think so.

12 posted on 04/12/2005 7:46:00 AM PDT by ladyjane

13 posted on 04/12/2005 8:00:32 AM PDT by Van Jenerette (Our Republic - If We Can Keep it!)

The issue is not whether Terry Schrivo was in a persistent vegetative state or not.... The issue was as a society should we allow another fellow human starve to death because we determined that their life as it is is less valuable than ours...... Whether Terry Schrivo remained in that state or could have recovered is not germaine...

You are 100% morally correct about that.

However, man's law sometimes makes the patient's cognitive "state," sadly, a tactical issue.

I'm not a Florida lawyer (nor any kind of lawyer), but I believe I read that Florida law makes a distinction between patients in a "persistent vegetative state" and patients in a "minimally conscious" state.

As I understand it, Florida legislators have made it lawful to starve/dehydrate to the former to death, but not the latter. Hence the desperate attempts to get the court to recognize opinions that Terri Schiavo was not "PVS."

The proved fact that doctors cannot reliably distinguish between "PVS" and "minimally conscious state" seems to have made little impact on Florida lawmakers.

30 posted on 04/12/2005 10:16:32 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)

The issue was as a society should we allow another fellow human starve to death because we determined that their life as it is is less valuable than ours......

Well said.

53 posted on 04/12/2005 1:08:14 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (You should be TERRIfied that you may someday be SCHIAVOed to death!)

I was ready the Bible with my children today. 1 Corinthians 12:19-30. It speaks of how ever member of the body is important no matter how much they can do.

65 posted on 04/12/2005 4:29:53 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy (Walk Softly, For a Dream is Born)

Dude, I usually don't hit on grammar or spelling - but her name has been spelled on 400 threads, including this one.

66 posted on 04/12/2005 4:34:17 PM PDT by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)

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