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To: metalcor; trisham; BykrBayb; wagglebee; little jeremiah
Her husband said he wanted her removed from life support as the LAW provides and as he says would have been her wish which is very believable because I think the vast majority of people would not wish to have our deaths prolonged.

You don't know that she was dying. And if you believe the word of the man who put her in the condition she was in, you are more deluded than you even have a clue about.

There's a difference between having a actual death prolonged and the condition she was in.

She was not on *life support* but merely had a feeding tube, something not that uncommon. Withdrawing a feeding tube is not shutting off the life support.

She was also reputed to be able to swallow on her own and no serious attempts at physical therapy or rehabilitation were made.

Her husband wanted her dead and he was able to legally kill her and she and her family had no say in it.

Any society that gets to that point is morally bankrupt and people have an obligation to speak out against that kind of treatment of human beings in order to prevent further moral decay.

60 posted on 03/27/2010 4:39:32 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Amen.


61 posted on 03/27/2010 4:41:15 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: metmom

If removing a feeding tube results in death, it is removing life support. Or do you reserve the right to decide logic as well? Like I said, it’s pointless arguing where facts are overruled by supposition and emotion. So I won’t. These decisions are being made every day by someone and we should all take responsibility for ourselves and make our own wished known in a legal and binding way to avoid such burdens and controversy.


65 posted on 03/27/2010 5:07:56 PM PDT by metalcor
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