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To: HairOfTheDog
By calling Terri's supporters Terri-bots it gives the impression that there was something wrong or strange about supporting her right to life.

I don't know of anyone who supported her right to life that believed there is a cookie cutter answer for all the complex situations that come up in life on earth.

There were so many problems in Terri's case that it probably "took the cake" for improprieties including the fact that she was placed in the hospice without a doctor's signature and was not recertified every six months as the law requires.

What should not be confused is that there is a difference between brain damage and terminal illness. The statute used as justification for pulling her tube was only supposed to apply to terminally ill patients. The legislators all know this.

You have no idea the shock among the people I've talked with when it was learned that food and nutrition delivered to a body in any method other than a fork/spoon is in the Florida Statutes as "life prolonging procedures". I know people who have a feeding tube for various reasons and are not sick and drive, work, etc every day. No one would know unless they shared that info.

Justice For Florida Seniors has a lot of useful info . There are articles about people who had advance directives that were ignored by medical personell, info how guardianships are bilked, etc. At the end of the day we can do all humanly possible to prepare for worst case scenario and it may not make a bit of difference.

Hospice Patients Alliance also has a lot of good info.

29 posted on 08/04/2005 4:24:15 AM PDT by tutstar ( <{{--->< OurFlorida.true.ws Impeach Judge Greer)
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To: tutstar

Thanks for posting this article & the additional info, tut. Good job, very helpful.


31 posted on 09/14/2005 3:22:12 PM PDT by cyn
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