Posted on 05/16/2005 6:39:12 AM PDT by Former Fetus
That only means you've lost or joined ranks.
The selfish man has a shallow soul; hardly worth the saving.
Your assumptions are blind, your reasoning is fractured and, therefore, your conclusions are laughable.
But, by all means, don't let any of that stop you from handing down your righteous judgments.
You have no right to decide the value of anyone's life, or to play God.
The right to life is God-given and inalienable.
Quality of life: Another name for the slippery slope into barbarism.
I can only guess you've jumped to the wrong conclusion.
Eschew obfuscation.
As long as no criminal misdeed is involved, I wholly agree with you.
While I've no doubt a life hangs in the balance with this case, I've also no doubt these few cases are being used in an effort to further erode the institution of marriage. Either these decisions will stay with the spouses, or they will be given over to the government. Either marriage is between a man, woman, and God, or it is a government institution. That various levels of government tax and license marriage, a religious institution, further erodes the institution. That these cases are being used to force spouses to enter into written healthcare directives beyond their vows of marriage only strengthens my view that marriage is under attack.
I'm sorry to hear what this individual is faced with, but I've got to stand firm with the institution of marriage.
Food and water are not 'life support', in the sense you are using it.
Read the article excerpted in post 10 - http://www.theempirejournal.com/514054_cognizant_jacksonville_ma.htm
More details.
Do you have the "right" to committ suicide?
No one is trying to undermine marriage, or the spouse's rights.
The marriage relationship has limits. No spouse has the right to kill their partner, either actively or passively. Sheesh.
If someone is sick or incapacitated, their loved ones have a moral and legal responsibility to give them the care they need.
Like all of those folks who HAVE awakened when the medical 'experts' gave them no chance of doing so?
I know God, and you ain't Him, dude.
By the way, Terri Schiavo was not as you described.
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If someone is sick or incapacitated, their loved ones have a moral and legal responsibility to give them the care they need."
INDEED!!!!
Talk about undermining marriage; here we actually have folks trying to turn it on it's head!
Feeding tubes have been around for about 200 years. It's not extraordinary means to give an incapacitated patient food and water that way.
At least it wasn't considered extraordinary until laws started getting passed saying that it is.
Even people on ventilators have gotten off of them at times.
Absolutely agree with you both.
Ephesians 6:12, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
And Daniel indicates that the spiritual realm has physical zones -
Daniel 10:13, "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia."
Daniel 10:20-21, "Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince."
Interestingly, we just finished a Sun night bible study on spiritual warfare, and during one of the earlier classes, our teacher related the following story, something like this - in the 30's, missionary work in some part of South America was frustratingly fruitless in the face of lots of voodoo practice, control by local shamans etc. Then suddenly there was this explosion of evangelism, and a number of years later one of the missionaries asked a converted shaman why the drastic turnaround, and the shaman said "Because all the demons went to Germany!"
Some people laughed, but the point was made, and I certainly believe it's a valid one. And I suspect the Church of Scientology based in Clearwater might have a little something to do with FL's problems.
No.
Do we have a moral obligation to keep PVS patients' bodies alive?
Very good.
What means are needed to keep them alive?
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