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Re-Defining My Life Away: Turning PVS Patients Into Non-Persons
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| 10/1/07
| Laura Echevarria
Posted on 10/01/2007 3:49:38 PM PDT by wagglebee
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I suspect people like Burton eagerly grasp anything that supposedly supports their position--that individuals declared to be in a PVS are unresponsivebut question the science when it challenges the core of their argument. This is how the culture of death ALWAYS acts, they ignore anything that doesn't fit their agenda.
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posted on
10/01/2007 3:49:47 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; narses; 8mmMauser
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posted on
10/01/2007 3:50:35 PM PDT
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wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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posted on
10/01/2007 3:51:04 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: BykrBayb; bjs1779; Sun; floriduh voter; MHGinTN; Mr. Silverback
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posted on
10/01/2007 3:52:46 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
I continue to wonder why these type patients (and others), and their care costs, are not taken under the wing of research agencies.
It would seem to be a perfect way to match up continued life support with examination/research into causes, effects, and cures.
To: wagglebee
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:15:22 PM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(TERRI Anti-Euthanasia Ping List: 8mmmauser & I'm 4 DUNCAN HUNTER)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:22:49 PM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: wagglebee
“Are we going to declare that only individuals who are self-aware AND capable of making conscious decisions ...” How is it that we would arbitrarily cancel her as unable to make conscious decisions when she can hear and respond —at least in her mind— to their directions? Are these scientists so dead in soul that they would not look for some means by which to communicate with this woman since she is able to hear their directions and do something with her mind to show it? God help us, how have we descended so deeply into the utilitarian deathpool?
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:29:37 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:35:47 PM PDT
by
cpforlife.org
(A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
To: wagglebee
Fred Plum's 1971 paper which coined the term "persistent vegetative state" was a speculative investigation of a certain type of head injury patient.
It was never intended to be put to the uses that legislatures and courts have crafted for it.
If it exists at all, it is a syndrome with varying causes and a diverse set of prognoses.
As a diagnostic category, it should probably be abolished, but it's too useful to politicians and judges for that to happen now.
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:45:24 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
To: MHGinTN; wagglebee
Are we going to declare that only individuals who are self-aware AND capable of making conscious decisions ... How is it that we would arbitrarily cancel her as unable to make conscious decisions when she can hear and respond at least in her mind to their directions? Are these scientists so dead in soul that they would not look for some means by which to communicate with this woman since she is able to hear their directions and do something with her mind to show it? God help us, how have we descended so deeply into the utilitarian deathpool?Most of these cases are quite complex, and your simplification of the decisions which get made - every day, hundreds and hundreds of them - as a "descent into the utilitarian deathpool" is a gross oversimplification.
It has the secondary bad effect of making ordinary people terrified that you will ever gain a smidgen of political power.
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:51:51 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
To: wagglebee
She died She was murdered because some saw her life as unworthy to be lived.
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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posted on
10/01/2007 5:00:57 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Jim Noble
You must be in a state of bliss, ignoring the reality of our nation’s comoditizing human life and derigating the value of individual human life.
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10/01/2007 5:10:45 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
To: Jim Noble
"Most of these cases are quite complex, and your simplification of the decisions which get made - every day, hundreds and hundreds of them - as a "descent into the utilitarian deathpool" is a gross oversimplification."Which attitudes currently rule the deathpool -- Burton's or Owen's?
"It has the secondary bad effect of making ordinary people terrified that you will ever gain a smidgen of political power."
I have no doubt that nothing will ever come between your family's decision to Schiavo you someday, should it come to that.
To: Jim Noble
derigating should be ‘derogating’ ... tired mind and fingers.
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posted on
10/01/2007 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
To: wagglebee
Lord, these people are still people. Help to convert the scients’ minds about this issue.
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posted on
10/01/2007 6:03:23 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: wagglebee
“Is this where were going? Are we going to declare that only individuals who are self-aware AND capable of making conscious decisions AND able to communicate these decisions with ease are worthy to live?”
The easy solution is to always err on the side of life. No problem.
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posted on
10/01/2007 6:12:16 PM PDT
by
Reddy
(VOTE CONSERVATIVE in '08!)
To: Jim Noble
“Ordinary people” are logical and know that Terri was murdered.
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posted on
10/01/2007 6:14:01 PM PDT
by
Reddy
(VOTE CONSERVATIVE in '08!)
To: Jim Noble
PVS, especially the term ‘vegetable’ should be abolished on moral grounds: It is an inherently dehumanizing term, as offensive as calling a race of people sub-humans or monkeys. Actually worse, as it is calling us to have less concern for humans than we do for domesticated animals.
No human being is a vegetable, and just as losing one’s limbs doesnt term a human into a worm, losing consciousness doesn’t turn a human into a cabbage.
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posted on
10/01/2007 6:21:36 PM PDT
by
WOSG
(I just wish freepers would bash Democrats as much as they bash Republicans)
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