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To: Calpernia

Looks like this is the way these cases should be handled. Doctors provide the facts and allow the family time to decide.

Then the family does the deciding.

So much better than jerking that child out of the arms of the mother and killing him.


7 posted on 04/29/2005 10:16:11 AM PDT by ClancyJ (Florida Motto: Send me your weak, frail, elderly - and we will give them 'rest'".)
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To: ClancyJ

You are so kind, I know there are many families who just can't let go of their family members. Those last few days or months mean so much to them. I knew a guy who was on fire, he tried to jump into river after wreck, but got stopped. The doctors said they should have let him jump, but the family insisted that he be kept alive. He lived for another week. They wouldn't have had those last few days if the family hadn't been so insistent. He wanted to go but the family couldn't let go of him.


27 posted on 04/29/2005 10:41:23 AM PDT by mel
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To: ClancyJ
So much better than jerking that child out of the arms of the mother and killing him.

Not to mention her womb.

49 posted on 04/29/2005 11:50:03 AM PDT by naturalized (Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called walking.)
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To: ClancyJ

yea right. Terri was brain dead too, she just had brain stem function which kept her heart beating and lungs breathing.

Notice the sudden silence of the Shindlers. They have the atopsey report. If it was bad they would be screaming murder.

Spare me the drama "jerking a child out of a mothers arms and killing her"
yea right. that never happened either.


60 posted on 04/29/2005 12:22:22 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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we let people die every day, thousands probably...

there are no court orders, there are no protests or guards or cruel and unusal punishments upon the poor patient......

the biggest problem with letting people die is that the relatives actually think it happens fast when it actually can go along very slowly, and sometimes family members will actually want the doctor to "do" something to make it go faster.....

90 posted on 05/01/2005 12:07:55 AM PDT by cherry
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