Posted on 09/16/2006 8:44:44 AM PDT by Jawn33
Perhaps the last word should go to Pat Flores, the mother of George Melendez, the 31-year-old coma patient who reassured his parents that he wasn't in pain after taking Ambien, as zolpidem is known in the US. He was starved of oxygen when his car overturned and he landed face down in a garden pond near his home in Houston, Texas, in 1998. "The doctors said he was clinically dead - one said he was a vegetable," says Pat. "After three weeks he suffered multi-organ failure and they said his body would ultimately succumb. They said he would never regain consciousness."
He survived and four years later, while visiting a clinic, Pat gave him a sleeping pill because his constant moaning was keeping her and her husband, Del, awake in their shared hotel room. "After 10 to 15 minutes I noticed there was no sound and I looked over," she recalls. "Instead of finding him asleep, there he was, wide awake, looking at his surroundings. I said, 'George', and he said, 'What?' We sat up for two hours asking him questions and he answered all of them. His improvements have continued and we talk every day. He has a terrific sense of humour and he carries on running jokes from the day before.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
In many cases, the Nazi line is just a cop out. So must Nazis be therefore excluded from any argument?
The ovens at Auschwitz were deemed legal by German courts during the war. Thus, it was legal to kill Jews in them. It was not, however, moral.
Do you disagree with that statement?
A weak strawman argument to say the least. I ignore those comments since they add nothing to the discussion at hand.
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There is a drug that is pulling people out of Vegetative states. New medicine happens all the time. Why die when you don't have to?
I'm talking about being hooked up to a machine for life. That's what you said about your Aunt, right?
No. My Aunt Wanda was never on any machines. She required food and water, but no life support.
Likewise, Terri Shiavo was not on any machines. She was not on life support.
Sorry, her parents did not request any monetary support. They were willing to forgo all insurance and settlement money. But Michael wanted her dead.
Ok, then slavery. Slavery was legal, but it was not moral. Would you then have been in favor of slavery just because a court said it was ok?
This drug helped ONE person. Again, I would never, ever ask my loved ones to give up their lives to take care of MY BODY in hopes that someday there MIGHT be a drug that MIGHT enable me to open my eyes. 40 years in a vegetative State? IT'S SELFISH...plain and simple.
"Food" that was being administered by extraordinary means. Let's face reality here. Terri wasn't eating cheeseburgers or sandwiches or cereal. She was being fed a mixture -- via an abdominal tube -- that was developed to provide all the nutrients required by her body: a sludge that was nutritionally balanced.
Sorry, this is a Terri thread -- not a Nazi thread.
No, read the article. It has helped dozens of people, in fact it has helped every single person it has been tried on.
Sorry you fear life so much.
Just because a court rules something is legal, does not mean that it is moral.
Or is that too complicated for you?
I suggest you read up on ALL the history. This was about money.
Again...Tsk, Tsk. Always attack your opponent when you have no validity to your position...
Perhaps if Michael had not stopped her health care workers from feeding her orally she wouldn't have been on a feeding tube.
It was immoral to starve and dehydrate her to death. That is my position.
How is that invalid?
Or perhaps if Michael had not prevented the "health care" workers from endangering her...what might have happened?
No, this was about Terri.
The case was covered very closely here on FR, and among those most closely following was T'wit. To wit, it is youself in the out-lands, not t'wit.
I'm saying your supporting arguments are invalid.
Nope.
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