Posted on 06/22/2005 8:28:18 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
The right-to-life versus dying-with-dignity battle over Terri Schindler Schiavo exploded back into life on Monday, bursting back to life from the unlikely scene of a cemetery.
"At the burial site of Terri Schiavo’s cremated remains, Michael Schiavo used a bronze grave marker to list Feb. 25, 1990 as the date his wife died," laments Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Washington-based Christian Democracy Coalition (CDC). "Feb. 25, 1990 is the date Terri Schindler Schiavo experienced a still unknown event that left her severely mentally disabled. Terri Schiavo actually died March 31, 2005, nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed by court order."
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More soap box operatics.
It's pretty clear to me most of these people
jumping into this argument between Terry's
husband and her family have never gone through
one year's agony of watching a loved one die
by inches daily...let alone 15 years. I have.
And it's not a great way for the survivors to
"carry one" with their own lives. Sooner or
later, consciously or not, you begin to ask the
Lord to take the loved one out of your life.
You even lie awake at night thinking about
shooting a hypo of air into the blood stream.
Selfish? To a huge degree, you bet! Emotionally
disintegrating? Again, a real test of one's
moral fibre! The one lesson I learned? NEVER
judge the actions of another faced with this
type of situation. Once you've been there,
life and the value of life changes dramatically!
With all due respect, it is our job as citizens to judge the actions of others, lest they abuse power or kill someone who shouldn't be killed. Your opinion may vary as to whether that happened here - but it is HIGHLY appropriate to keep an eye on such matters.
Good point. And with the autopsy showing that her brain was withered and that she was blind could only add to her agony. I've watched a loved one die by degrees, it isn't a lot of fun.
Most of us have been there. But nothing changes the value of life. The value of life is an absolute. Dehydration is never the answer.
People's actions get judged all the time -- in and out of courts.
We shouldn't judge the feelings of the caretakers, though.
Terri was not dying. She had no terminal illness. Her heart and lungs were strong. She had a family that wanted to take care of her and love her. She died because her husband wanted her dead and a judge agreed to it. Many people even worse off than Terri are living among us. Should we start yanking all their feeding tubes, too?
Your own experience makes you a poor judge. You speak to that understanding of yourself, yet in a very human way project it on others. Please mark Sioux-san's response above.
Here's a simple multiple choice test for all "Michaelites" (pro-euthanasia acolytes)
Please choose one of the following, mutually exclusive, statements.
If you chose A, please explain how Terri could have been in "agony," since vegetables have no feelings?
If you chose B, please explain why Terri should have been starved and dehydrated, since it is wrong to starve/dehydrate animals.
Thought to keep in mind: Michaelites promised us, on national TV, that Terri would not feel any pain as she was dehydrated and starved because she was a "vegetable."
Most adults have seen a loved one die, inch by inch.
Her parents were willing to care for her. They were not allowed by Michael.
This wasn't about Michael's alledged unwillingness to care for her, but rather, her alledged unwillingness to live in that manner.
Blindness could also be a result of optic nerve damage, due to dehydration and starvation.
You forgot the party line: She could not have been in "agony" because she had really stopped being a human being a long time before she was killed.
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