Devaluing lives (like Terri Schiavo's)

Two years ago, during my coverage of the Terri Schiavo case, I quoted her father, Bob Schindler, who turned out to be prophetic as to his daughter's ultimate fate: "We pay great lip service in this country to disability rights, but as the degree of a person's disability increases, the level of protection that person receives decreases."

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I'm not sure of the amount of government expenditures law abiding disabled are entitled to in an effort to emulate ordinariness, but they will always have the right to their lives--to be born and not be forced to die.

Let us not allow Terri's death to mean nothing. If her example leads to increased protections for the disabled, then we will have achieved something good through her tragedy.

Amen!

The advancing Culture Of Death. Its easier to kill someone who's not young, healthy, or beautiful. They're a financial burden and when they're in a coma, they're not sentient. So a rationale has been created to kill people that don't look like society's image of a person. The disabled fall into that category. People think Terri Schiavo's case was unique but I prefer to think of it as a bellweather on society's attitudes to the least among us.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

Let us not allow Terri's death to mean nothing. If her example leads to increased protections for the disabled, then we will have achieved something good through her tragedy.

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I agree.

It's not society as a whole, it's the insurance industry. I've always thought the whole issue is really about money. If the family hadn't been paying out of pocket the insurance company would have put her down a long time ago.

...steadily advancing culture of death.

>>>It's not society as a whole, it's the insurance industry. I've always thought the whole issue is really about money. If the family hadn't been paying out of pocket the insurance company would have put her down a long time ago.

Just watch as we creep closer and closer to universal health insurance.

This will become all the more common as baby boomers hit retirement homes, and Social Security is strained to the breaking point.

Once again proof that this isn't a partisan issue. Hentoff is very far to the left, but he gets this issue right every time.

"It's not society as a whole, it's the insurance industry."

Somebody must do an investigation of the medical insurance industry - deep cover if necessary - to find out how much money it's spending to lobby for forced, involuntary euthanasia. Soros is a big player - his job is to get people to believe they have a duty to die on a doctor's whim. But unless there were a sound, financial bottom-line advantage for someone, his efforts would have little support. The medical insurance industry has a huge incentive, so that's where big answers lie.

"This will become all the more common as baby boomers hit retirement homes, and Social Security is strained to the breaking point."

Room must be made for Social Security and Medicaid payments to all those illegal aliens who are here to do the jobs Americans won't. [Because Americans cant get them since they're all filled by illegals already.] We're being phased out - in the most literal sense - all for the sake of lower production costs, and lower "maintenance costs". Capitalism and Socialism are merging.

There. I said it.

>>>Somebody must do an investigation of the medical insurance industry - deep cover if necessary - to find out how much money it's spending to lobby for forced, involuntary euthanasia. Soros is a big player...

Ah yes, Soros. I recall Grampa Dave mentioning this on the day Terri died:

To: bassmaner

Re the money and power involved in the murder of Terri: Once again we see the work of George $oro$ in the Eugenics of America or as he has labeled it. $oro$ via his connections invested 45 Million $'s to promote Eugenics/Euthanasia for the rest of us. How much did those pushing the murder of Terri get?:

"Project on Death In America".

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600 posted on 03/31/2005 7:38:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)

The paradox of Nat Hentoff in the Washington Times shows this issue concerns the spectrum and defies the Left's smear of religious zealotry.

When others get to decide whose life is worth living and whose is not, it means big trouble. We're all in trouble.

Somebody must do an investigation of the medical insurance industry

And it's just like abortion. Once someone has had an abortion, they HAVE to try and justify it. Otherwise they have to admit they committed murder . . .

We already have committees appointed to decide who gets to live and who has to die. Some of the advocates of involuntary euthanasia actually point to the fact that there are such committees as evidence there should be such committees. Just like they point to the fact that judge greer ordered the death of Terri as proof that he should have ordered her death. They are such simpletons.

As bad as it seems, the idea of inherent worth is only good until the bills come due.

Oh, then let's rush out and kill some people quick. Don't waste time trying to find some pork to cut from the budget. Kill all the useless eaters.