Posted on 08/30/2010 4:19:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
For fifteen years I have taken care of two dying elderly parents and the young nephew my sister abandonned.
Mom died five years ago and though defying cancer to a standstill, it was a lung infection that took her from us.
My nephew, after years of therapy due to abuse from his mom and her shack-up-studs, now has his high-school diploma (GPA 3.65) and is contemplating enlisting in the Air Force.
My dad is dying from Alzheimers and I am doing everything possible to keep him sane and alive for as long or longer than the doctors predict.
Unlike those who just talk and read about it, I try to live each day like a Christian.
Now, stop being snarky and insulting, wagglebee, ‘cause you’re trying to read between the lines of what I wrote, and you’re irritating the Hell out of me!
Lovely.
Could being the operative word. They never claimed that they were.
YOU want to give the guardians powers they never had:
The Department of Public Welfare objected, stating that Hockenberry was neither terminally ill nor permanently unconscious and never appointed a third party with the power to refuse healthcare necessary to the preservation of his life.
And each should be considered cautiously and with a presumption of moral restraint, under the guidance of Biblical Ethics.
The American people in general, and social conservatives in specific, are world leaders in this kind of charity. Someone who beamed in yesterday from Mars might be excused for not knowing about that.
I.e. you confess that your earlier interpretation is overly literal.
Do you have ANY EVIDENCE that the guardian’s desires to end Hockenberry’s life were financial?
Oh your karmic score!
Right. Feel free to continue applying your interpretation of the rules, only to those whose arguments you personally find inconvenient.
Like I said: That's hypocritical. I expect you'll do it anyway, but perhaps you'll surprise me. But I doubt it.
I have a feeling that some here do not believe that people with Down’s Syndrome should have SSI or Medicaid.
So, what should we do with disabled people who can’t care for themselves? Just not treat them? Euthanize them?
His guardians were not simply refusing to supply his needs. They were petitioning the court to prevent anyone else from supplying his needs either. I don’t have to buy your groceries, but I can’t lock you in a room and refuse to let anyone feed you. That would be murder.
Nope. I confess that you proposed no specific examples, so I proposed no specific answers to your (non-existent) examples.
I am correct about you and that is what is irritating you to all this blather. You want to hide your sin under somebody else’s.
In your opinion, who should decide what lives are worthy and what lives are not? ANd which live saving or promoting measures are worth doing for which people? Then who gets to decide how much insurance companies should pay out for which conditions? How about age cutoffs?
How about non-profit or hospitals run by relgious groups? Maybe the government should tell them who to keep alive and who to kill, as well?
Once you get into the “let’s kill those who should not live” the line changes and gets closer and closer to - you!
I think so too.
While we feed kids with parents who choose lottery tickets and cigarettes over food, poor young men like this become the target.
Then you made a meaningless statement, from your own head.
Didn't see that in the article. If true, then I am certainly opposed to that.
You should have every right to VOLUNTARILY support anyone else's care whom you wish to support, and I will honor and respect you for doing so -- so long as you're not stealing other people's money to do it.
It was precisely as meaningful as the comment to which it was addressed, upon which it was conditioned.
However IF they had been granted medical power of attorney by the state, then they could have denied the use of a ventilator to prolong or save his life, just the same as anyone else who doesn't want such measures used on them.
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