Posted on 10/16/2007 3:42:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
Okay. Here is another question for the paranoids. Were your instincts correct in starving and dehydrating Terri Schiavo to death? Maybe you would like a slice of pizza before you answer that.
It was a test case, and that is the big flaw in the
strategy of those who use the “Unlike Terri this patient
can improve.” This line has become quite common, I’ve
heard doctors use it in a quite choreographed manner in
a continuing ed session.
It was a test case, and that is the big flaw in the strategy of those who use the “Unlike Terri this patient can improve.” This line has become quite common, I’ve heard doctors use it in a quite choreographed manner in a continuing ed session.
Perhaps they "use[ed] it in a quite choreographed manner" because they all knew it to be true?
Or perhaps they don't know what they are talking about. That would be the most likely possibility since none of them ever examined Terri Schiavo.
Prayers for Terri and her dear family. I hope she forgave us for not saving her. Poor girl!
Bump to this post.
What was done to this woman was an absolute abomination.. dehydration is beyond cruel and unusual punishment. If you did this to your dog you’d go to jail.. for a member of the court to order someone be killed by such a method is on par with Doctor Mengala behavior.
I couldn’t agree more!
troll
You remind me of Barack Obama with your condescending remarks dripping with sarcasm. May God forgive you for your inappropriate insults. I won’t.
I don’t understand how anyone could defend what the judge did in this case.. I don’t care if this woman had absolutely NO higher brain functions at all... there is no way, no way, any sane, rational or normal human being could order another to be dehydrated to death. There was NOTHING humane or compassionate or whatever other crap buzzword they want to spin this as.
Dehydration is a horrific and painfully slow death.. your organs slowly shut down on you, it is not the sort of death any living creature should be put through by another. If you did this to your dog you’d be thrown in jail... how a judge could order such an act and others actually follow through on it is beyond me. You’d have to drag me to jail for contempt before I would refuse another human being fluids so they could die of dehydration.
Lessons
This piece by Peggy Noonan really struck me this morning. What are the lessons our children will be learning from this Terri Schiavo travesty?
Terri Schiavo may well die. No good will come of it. Those who are half in love with death will only become more red-fanged and ravenous.
And those who are still learning--our children--oh, what terrible lessons they're learning. What terrible stories are shaping them. They're witnessing the Schiavo drama on television and hearing it on radio. They are seeing a society--their society, their people--on the verge of famously accepting, even embracing, the idea that a damaged life is a throwaway life.
Our children have been reared in the age of abortion, and are coming of age in a time when seemingly respectable people are enthusiastic for euthanasia. It cannot be good for our children, and the world they will make, that they are given this new lesson that human life is not precious, not touched by the divine, not of infinite value.
Once you "know" that--that human life is not so special after all--then everything is possible, and none of it is good. When a society comes to believe that human life is not inherently worth living, it is a slippery slope to the gas chamber. You wind up on a low road that twists past Columbine and leads toward Auschwitz. Today that road runs through Pinellas Park, Fla.
I want Jeb Bush to be the stuff of legend--not president--for saying enough is enough and running into the Bastille to save Terri. Just save her. We will work through the backlash later.
... and Jeb froze. FV
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