[MarMema]

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. His most recent book is "Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder."

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[Pan_Yans Wife]

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[Pan_Yans Wife]

Harvesting organs before death is gruesome and evil.

[nickcarraway]

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[GregB]

Glenn Beck ping........

[walford]

"...collapsed from unknown causes in 1990 and experienced a devastating brain injury..."

I would like to know how devastating the brain injury is. Is she in there but cannot communicate or is she brain-dead? This long article fails to provide this crucial info.

p.s. regardless, Hubby sounds like a slime-ball...

[Lucy Lake]

Pinging.

And you thought it couldn't get worse.

[Sally'sConcerns]

I didn't know....I had been paying attention to all of the other news so I didn't know the suit was thrown out on the 10th.

Oh God help us, please!

[jocon307]

I wonder what will happen to her murderous, adulterous "husband", Mr. Schiavo? And those who have aided his many mortal sins.

He will get justice, if not in this world, in the next. And his presumably creepy "fiance" had best hope she stays in good health, and reject any large life insurance policies he may seek to contract on her eventual demise.

[Thinkin' Gal]

*No Mercy* in Florida

Hosea 1:8-9 Now when she had weaned *LORUHAMAH*, she conceived, and bare a son. Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

01580 gamal {gaw-mal'}

a primitive root; TWOT - 360; v

AV - wean 10, reward 8, dealt bountifully 4, do 4, bestowed 2,
recompense 2, weaned child 2, do good 1, requite 1, ripening 1,
served 1, yielded 1; 37

1) to deal fully with, recompense
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to deal out to, do to
1a2) to deal bountifully with
1a3) to recompense, repay, requite
2) (Qal) to wean a child
(Niphal) to be weaned
3) (Qal) to ripen, bear ripe (almonds)

Indeed. That must be the point where the gimel dusts off his foot and stops chasing after the dalet.

[Dante3]

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[spectre]

My own father had a terrible stroke which affected his communication skills. He couldn't eat, drink, talk, read, write OR even use the right side of his body.

In his Living Will, he stated that no extreme measures should be made to keep him alive, "feeding tubes" specifically.

Well, he was AWAKE, and responsive so to heck with the his living Will...he was our DAD. His brain was injured, but he wasn't brain dead...there was a big difference and we all knew it.

We went from the feeding tube down his nose to a more permanent site in his stomach. They said he would NEVER be able to swallow again. His reflexes just didn't respond to anything they coaxed him with..mostly chips of ice.

Now for the good news. Six months later, my brother did what the "professionals" couldn't accomplish. He placed just a tiny dab of ice-cream on the tip of Dad's tongue...about the size of a pea. BINGO! Dad swallowed! His gag reflexes came back. Dad always did love his ice-cream :~)

That was TEN years ago and Dad is still with us. He eats "anything" and doesn't aspirate.

Never give up, people...

SW

[CindyDawg]

She'll die in about 3 days if water withheld and it will be painful.

[MarMema]

Please help with prayers on Wednesday for a disabled woman, and please keep your children far, far away from the ICU, Boston Childrens.

[cpforlife.org]

The horrifying case of Terri Schiavo, added to this: "Vermont Medical Leaders Debate Legalizing Assisted Suicide" at http://www.lifenews.com/bio73.html sadly indicate that the culture of death is growing faster than the Culture of Life.

There will come a time (and I think we are fast approaching) when it is "too late"

What will change the culture?

At the heart of it, this is truly a basic problem and there is a straightforward solution. The sanctity of life is a simple truth that can and must be taught like any other subject. In Christian schools it should be the preeminent subject in religion class and receive the greatest attention and highest Respect. The war between the cultures of life and death is the single thing that has a bearing on the destiny of our nation and the very survival of our society. Every student beginning kindergarten is naturally pro-life. If the Christian schools were to nurture this gift and guide the proper formation of their Christian consciences with ongoing teachings while continuously building on successive lessons—over the course of thirteen years the vast majority of these students would be solid pro-life citizens. Protestant and Catholic leaders who control schools, Bible study, CCD etc. need only the will to make this happen. Each day this doesn't happen is another day of victory for the pro-death forces, because ignorance of the masses is the only hope the pro-death forces have for survival.

"...before nations can change, men must change"

[RnMomof7]

Advocacy in Critical Care Medicine for discarding the dead donor rule follows on the heels of the Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's advocacy for legalizing "futile care theory," which would permit doctors to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment--including "low tech" treatments such as antibiotics--based on the doctor's perception of the "quality" of the patient's life. "Given finite resources," the Ethics Committee stated in 1997, "institutional providers should define what constitutes inadvisable treatment and determine when such treatment will not be sustained."

Several years ago I read that the organ donations are usually taken from a "living" patient on a ventilator . The article noted that the need for certain organs could cause doctors not to be aggressive in their treatment .The patient would die of medical neglect. So we have the problem who defines death . At the time I asked my daughter to remove the permission off her drivers license .

Right now I believe that is a law in NY State that if a family wants antibiotics or feeding tubes and request them the Hospital can refuse. The state now holds your life in it's hands ..not your family

Removing feeding and hydration brings a painful death , I hope that her husband Michael has an opportunity to experience it himself some day. He is killing her for the blood money. The flames of hell lick at his feet

[First Amendment]

I found this statement profoudnly disturbung:

"We propose that individuals who desire to donate their organs and who are either neurologically devastated or imminently dying should be allowed to donate their organs, without first being declared dead."

Slippery slope - it's more like a screaming nosedive. Make me think of how people of conscience in Germany must have felt in the beginning of the Nazi rule. One little (or not little) chipping away at a time. People not wanting to stand up and shout or take action, so as not to draw attention to themselves, or disturb their own little life-coccoon of ease, and justifying their complacence, thinking - "Oh , it can't get that much worse".

Well, if we do nothing, guaranteed it will get much worse. It already has. Peter Singer and other fiends have purposedly kicked out God and the sanctity of life. Who is next on their hit list?

Poor Terri and her parents. May God have mercy on them.

[battousai]

What can I say, as the Holy Father said its is a culture of death, when you don't respect one life, the unborn, then why should you respect any other...