Another 9-11 date with death: Jane Chastain decries agonizing death planned for Terri Schiavo

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, September 4, 2003 | Jane Chastain

[sweet_diane]

"Honestly, the man hasn't allowed here to get her teeth cleaned in all the years she has been in the hospital. He won't allow flowers or gifts delivered to her. She is denied many medical exams. She hasn't even had a pap exam in 12 years. Oh, but sure, that's love.

sounds criminal to me..

My great aunt and uncle carried for their only child (born around 1930) for 40 yrs. They had to fight the docs (who said at best she'd have 20 yrs) to keep her out of an institution and they cared for her at home.

She never walked or even sat up under her own power, a few years before her death my aunt swears she said momma, she never controled her own body in any way beyond sounds and limited facial expressions. She did have a sense of taste and had a great reaction to grasshopper pie or the sensation of one of her beautiful velvet dresses!

I am blessed to have witnessed their love and devotion to their child. My aunt will be turning 95 soon and she still misses her daughter terribly... I get goosebumps hearing her speak of her. Her life had value! And quality!

My heart goes out to these parents.

[Theodore R.]

Oh, but sure, that's love.

sounds criminal to me..

In the Age of Clinton, right is wrong, and wrong is right, but liberals disagree over what is "right" and what is "wrong," so there is no distinction made. Love to a liberal means death when convenient to the liberal.

[syriacus]

I didn't know that M(r)s. Chastain was a medical doctor

Are you a medical doctor? Did you examine Terri?

Providing good and hydration has not been considered life support in the past. If they were considered "life support," anyone who couldn't feed himself could be allowed to starve.

[countrydummy]

I am sorry I was so ruff with your comments yesterday. This issue brings out the best and the worst in me. I know one of the reporters of this case personally and I know that there is so much that just can't go into print. There is more to come and it is not going to look very good on Terri's husband.

I apologise for my harsh words, I just get very passionate over this.

[syriacus]

Providing good and hydration

I meant "providing food and hydration," but having anyone provide "good" to Terri is a great idea, anyway.

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[nickcarraway]

Does someone else have the right to decide you want to end your life- without your consent?

[TheSpottedOwl]

Did he offer any reasoning for not accepting this?

I can't watch any of the video on this dinosaur computer of mine,so I can't judge her reactions for myself, yet from what I've read it seems there's something there and Hubby just seems fishy to me.

The only thing that makes sense to me, is that there is a reason that Michael Schiavo desperately (and he does seem desperate)wants his wife dead, is that perhaps if she gets better and talks about what happened, Michael could be in deep sh*t. The bone scan findings, plus the condition her neck is in, suggests something besides natural causes or a freak accident. I wonder if they had stairs in their home?

[strela]

Does someone else have the right to decide you want to end your life- without your consent?

Yup. See the numerous Hill (abortion clinic murderer) threads.

[nickcarraway]

Yup. See the numerous Hill (abortion clinic murderer) threads.

So, you think it's okay for him to kill people?

[strela]

So, you think it's okay for him to kill people?

Who is "him?"

[nickcarraway]

Hill

[strela]

Hill

No.

[strela]

Euthanasia is a first cousin of atheism.

A statement so broad in scope that it is undefendable.

[Theodore R.]

undefendable.

Is this a word?

[strela]

How about "indefensible?"

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Bump!

[shhrubbery!]

Have you noticed that the "death-with-dignity" bigots believe in such death for OTHERS, not themselves?

How true. Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, helped kill his own wife who was stricken with cancer.

As far as I know, he hasn't practiced what he preaches on himself though he must be quite aged by now.

Humphry is one of many socially prominent atheists who was 'converted' by Darwin:

Immediately [when] I read Darwin's "The Origin of Species" I lost my religious faith (Protestant). It seemed to negate the very roots of the biblical teaching. --Derek Humphry

[Theodore R.]

Immediately [when] I read Darwin's "The Origin of Species" I lost my religious faith (Protestant). It seemed to negate the very roots of the biblical teaching. --Derek Humphry

Actually, I have never heared of this Derek Humphry, but I have heard of his Hemlock Society! He obviously did not have core beliefs if Darwin's writing caused him to reject his previous understanding of life.

Another "Humphrey," Hubert Horatio Humphrey, a liberal to the hilt, however, said that a society is judged by the way it treats the "least of those among us." In that regard, the American society, 25 years after Hubert Humphrey's death, is a miserable failure. HHH had a retarded daughter: did he ever try to starve her to death because her "quality" of life was not what he would have liked?

[Theodore R.]

The Bible says (and I didn't write it) that the "fool has said in his heart that there is no God." So an atheist is a fool, according to the Bible. "Thinking himself wise," the atheist becomes a "fool."

Euthanasia advocates do not believe in God because Jesus said it is better for one to die himself than to harm one of the "little ones." And truly Terri Schindler is still one of the "little ones" through no fault of her own. She just chose the wrong husband, and that bad decision ruined her life.