Posted on 06/19/2005 8:19:40 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The will to live is VERY STRONG. Our opponents foolishly and unwisely IGNORE that reality.
I agree
Me too, I just cannot see conservatism in wanting the state to kill non-dying citizens.
And, usually conservatives look at precedents being set.
I would never have thought we would be arguing that a man with two wives still had the right of life and death decisions over the first one.
I would never have thought there would be such anger over the stance of many to allow parents to take on a daughter scheduled for death and care for her rather than kill her.
All the while claiming that they did not want the tubes pulled.
Something else for those so eager to judge the value of others' lives.
Have you ever visited a nursing home and talked to those little people? Sure many are pitiful - but just look at the gentleness, the sweet eyes, and those little gnarled hands. They are precious people who have lived their years of contribution to this world and are winding down.
They have lost a lot - they have lost the meaness, the competitiveness, the drives that made them do good or evil. They are again like children with gentle spirits.
The innocence you see in the eyes of children, you will see in the eyes of the elderly, the deformed, the PVS, the severely handicapped. Each has faced hardships and come through it better people.
God does not consider these lives of no value. These lives paint a picture and what you see when looking at that picture is the beauty of humbleness, innocence, hardships endured, life lived.
And God expects them to be treated with loving kindness and care not death-dealing manipulating staff and relatives calculating how to kill them.
Just because they are foolish and unwise (stupid/ignorant) does not mean we allow them to destroy the constitutional rights of all.
Or turn the United States into Germany circa WWII. NOT here, NOT ever.
I would never have thought we would be arguing that a man with two wives still had the right of life and death decisions over the first one.
I would never have thought there would be such anger over the stance of many to allow parents to take on a daughter scheduled for death and care for her rather than kill her.
___Nor I. It has made me re-evaluate some of the people I used to think were "conservatives."
Id the Schindlers were willing to care for Terri, why not allow them
to do so, in the absense of her confirmable clear intent to be allowed to die?
Why not err on the side of life rather than death?
"but after ten years in a persistent vegetative state that has robbed her of most of her cerebrum and all but the most instinctive of neurological functions"
Based on the autopsy. So for all in this state, we should perform an autopsy and then determine if they should live?
The problem here has nothing to do with medical facts but everything to do with the husband. Decisions to "remove tubes" occur daily in this country with no living wills but with the support of the whole family.
I want to see Mark Furman's take on the case.
Thanks for the feedback.
From the response to my observation that
I thought some people might have missed my point.
Wise words.
The ability to reject inconvenient facts explains a lot about the OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson juries.
A true conservative looks at the facts and makes a determination. A true conservative ignores the gossip and innuendo, the petty name-calling and character assassinations, the conspiracy theories and emotion-based statements.
A true conservative honors the rule of law. A true conservative does not go looking for judicial activists to overturn existing law, but instead works within the system to generate the support of the people.
The posters on this forum who spoke out against Terri's wishes acted like liberals, not conservatives. The factless, incorrect, misleading, and emotion-laden rhetoric on the Terri threads looked more like DU than FR.
An embarrassing and dark moment for this forum, no doubt.
Why belabor the point?
THAT'S your evidence that Terri changed her mind? Are you ill?
This jumped out at me - Democrats have a long record of inventing civil rights and repressing those they claim to be helping. This whole article is prefaced with a partisan lie.
Yep. Can you answer it?
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