[phenn]

Robert Wendland:
http://www.worldrtd.org/wendlandDies.html

Hugh Finn:
http://www.petersnet.net/browse/682.htm

[phenn]

These cases have a lot in common. There is a protocol. Read on. You will see it.

-PH-

[kimmie7]

Okay, someone give me a hand? The quote "First they came for .... but I wasn't .... so I didn't rise up. Then they (etc.) Then they came for me, but there was no one left...." Would the wonderful person that posted it please post it again? I've read so many pages my eyes are crossing.

[Theodore R.]

I do remember the Hugh Finn case but never got emotionally involved as I have with Terri's fight. Notice again how useless the Catholic Church was in this ordeal of terror. It's too bad he did not have a "living will." In the future though such "living wills" probably won't make any difference. The law will extinguish the disabled even as it proclaims an "Americans With Disabilities Act."

I wonder if any will leave Catholicism if they find out how the church sanctions euthanasia though they do not call it "euthanasia."

[Theodore R.]

Phenn, after reading about Hugh Finn again, I got more despondent. Mr. and Mrs. Finn erred in giving up on the matter. Perhaps they realized that they could never prevail. VA must be equal to FL in regard to preference being given to euthanasia. What would Patrick Henry think about that, or does anybody in VA know who Patrick Henry was?

When the Finns thought that giving up in regard to removing the feeding tube would bring "peace" with the daughter-in-law, they were really unrealistic. The only way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured, they surely learned. Now I would assume that they are forever estranged from the granddaughters as well. Hugh just married the wrong woman, as Terri married the wrong man.

The article did not say if Hugh's wife got a healthy settlement from his starvation death. Somehow I think that she might have. Maybe someone who knows could tell us how she is living these days -- probably in pretty grand style, I would imagine.

It appears that Hugh actually was making more progress than Terri, yet he was starved to death. This poor creature in FL hasn't a chance against all the forces of modern-day liberalism. She will be crushed to death like a roach skimpering across the kitchen floor. That's how meaningless liberals consider her life to be.

[MarMema]

Wow you found a picture of one of these people...thanks.
Just FYI, I also am collecting links on my FR page.

[MarMema]

Your point being that the state has no right to interfere - if the immediate family can speak for the disabled person, they should have the right. Correct?

It's a no-win battle for us as conservatives.

These people have taken a stance that we prefer, that of family rights over state-control, and are using it to get rid of cumbersome spouses or children and/or to kill same in order to inherit.

If not, please share. Obviously the Wendland case was a victory for us but the Finn case a huge sad story.