I think there's room for another rider up at the top.
>>In most states, exhibiting consciousness is not a defense against dehydration for profoundly impaired patients. Indeed, cognitively disabled people who are conscious are commonly dehydrated throughout the country. So long as no family member objects, the practice is deemed medically routine.
>> How can this be? The simple answer is that tube-supplied food and water—often called "artificial nutrition and hydration" (ANH)—has been defined in law and in medical ethics as an ordinary medical treatment. This means that it can be refused or withdrawn just like, say, antibiotics, kidney dialysis, chemotherapy, surgery, blood pressure medicine, or any other form of medical care. Indeed, removing ANH has come to be seen widely in medicine and bioethics as an "ethical" way to end the lives of cognitively disabled "biologically tenacious" patients (as one prominent bioethicist once described disabled people like Terri Schiavo and Haleigh Poutre), without resorting to active euthanasia.
You say Aunt Tillie is rich and refuses to die? You are getting impatient to inherit your piece of the fortune? Call a bioethicist.
See the link in #1525. It ought to be political dynamite! Al Jazeera has checked in on the side of Michael Schiavo and killing Terri. All you folks who approved putting an innocent disabled woman to death -- how does it feel to wake up in bed with the terrorists?
I think there's room for another rider up at the top.
Michael never gets enough killing, does he? When he isn't busy killing his wife and pulling the plug on his own parents, he's out campaigning for abortionists. Pray for him, this man is lost.
Michael never gets enough bullying and stalking either -- behavior strongly associated with domestic violence. That's what he's been doing out on the campaign trail: stalking and harassing candidates who voted to save his wife's life. ("No good deed goes unpunished.") Michael earned a vivid reputation for bullying his wife, his girl friends, hospital personnel and Terri's nurses over the years. He obviously hasn't changed a bit since the days he stalked Cindy Shook and ran her car off the road.
Btw, we didn't hear any objections from the PETA crowd when Michael murdered Terri's cats. Murder is the right word, isn't it? The vet said he could find them a new home, but Michael insisted on killing them in cold blood.
Meanwhile, PA senatorial candidates Casey and Santorum must be heaving a huge sigh of relief -- they escaped being endorsed by Michael Schiavo!
>>... Schiavo made the announcement at a campaign stop for two pro-abortion Congressional candidates he said his political action committee has endorsed.
>>He indicated he couldn't support either candidate because both supported legislation that allowed Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, to have a federal court review their lawsuit seeking to prevent Michael from killing Terri.
Terri Schiavo's Former Husband Opposes Both Casey, Santorum in PA
As we were just observing in the previous post, Michael is a bully. It's habitual. Great big guy physically -- he loves pushing smaller people around, especially girls. He has a history of stalking women, as he is doing with this Colorado lawmaker. People said he was "controlling" to Terri (that's a modern word for being a bully). Terri was like chattel property to Michael. He kept track of her car's mileage so she couldn't go anywhere without his approval. He told her what she could wear, what she could spend (she earned more than he did!), how she could wear her hair. It was a fight over spending $80 of her own money to get her hair colored that may have led to violence when he got home that night. Something happened shortly after he came home from work -- something that left her face down in the hallway, in cardiac arrest, brain-damaged and an invalid for the rest of her short life. It was, of course, Michael who later cut her life short.
Here we have a judge in the weird Commonwealth of Massachusetts who ruled that Haleigh, after nearly being killed by the state child protection agency [DSS], remains the sole property of the same child protection agency. In this way, the abuse of Haleigh can continue. The judge further ruled that Haleigh's mother is not her mother (judges can be very silly like that) and that her mother and grandmother may not visit Haleigh (judges can be very mean, too). Thus a battered small girl is denied her own mother's love.
Aren't we glad for the Massachusetts bureaucracy that makes all these great deeds possible? /sarcasm off
Here are two related stories by psychiatrist Carole Lieberman. Hey, this is fascinating reading. So, read!
>> “As Terri Schiavo starves to death, it is time to alert more lawmakers to the truth: the wrong person is being ‘punished’ for Terri Schiavo’s current state,” says Carole Lieberman, M.D. a Board Certified Psychiatrist on the Clinical Faculty of UCLA....
Terri Schiavo's Husband Fits Profile of Wife Abuser, Per Psychiatrist
Terri Schiavo: Starvation & Dehydration Not a Pretty Picture
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/29/State/Flipping_positions_on.shtml
Whatchya think, are we about ready for a new Terri thread?
Yes... it was that moving. David Gibbs was a witness. One who cared. One who wasn't hustling to kill an inconvenient, disabled woman. One whose heart was not hardened to the truth. What he saw, and said, and documented, was: Terri was very much alive and responsive.
>> Besides being a moral conservative activist, I’m also a cop and supposed to be tough yet many times I had tears in my eyes. During the year or so that Terri was in the news, I was never quite sure if the media was telling us the whole truth and apparently not only were they not presenting the whole truth, they were actively engaged in hiding it, and in many cases, telling us outright lies.
We've heard the lies here, sir, every one of them, over and over and over. Mr. Gibbs's book will help the truth emerge and prevail.
REVIEW | Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo
At least this fellow isn't mean about it...
>> October 29, 2006 - Theresa was only 26 years old when she went into cardiac arrest. She fell down in the hallway of her apartment and was rushed to the hospital. She quickly lapsed into a coma, and then spent 15 years of her life in what doctors diagnosed as an irreversible persistent vegetative state.
Except that that almost never happens to healthy young women, and when it does, medical science is quite capable of finding the cause. In Terri's case, no natural cause was ever found. What they DID find was strong evidence of assault and positional asphyxia.
>> But if Terri Schiavo’s situation has taught us anything, it’s that planning for such events...
What did Laci Peterson's situation teach us, Mr. Valentine? Same thing, I guess. If you make out a living will of some sort, don't leave your estate to a cheating husband.
Oh, and since this is a publication for seniors -- stay the heck away from Florida. It has laws in please to give you an early exit and let the lawyers paw through your estate.
An amazing exhibition of Democrat behavior.
>> "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, if you get a bunch of D's, you get stuck in Vietnam like I was."
But he botched it and said "Iraq" instead of "Vietnam."