Posted on 03/26/2005 7:23:19 PM PST by TheRobb7
How do we know if PVS is "permanent". Who knows what is in store in the future?
How often do we hear of people who are paralyzed, and are not supposed to ever walk again? I can name two who are defying that diagnosis. Dennis Byrd and Mike Utley who both broke their necks playing football. They are defying the odds. Babies born over 4 months early are now surviving. It may have happened back in the 70's when I was born, but was considerably more rare. I spent 2 months in the hospital being born almost three months early.
If I have a heartbeat, can breathe, and am not brain dead, than I am alive, and I have a chance to recover. The chance may be small, but it is not the place for jerk judges to decide to take that chance away.
I can't see how anyone with a soul or conscience sentence someone to die by starvation(and there's no way in hell that's painless and peaceful). It's even worse considering that she may very well have had a chance to recover with the right support. We just don't know, and that chance is being taken away thanks to some jerk judges (and a lot of gutless wonders who follow their decrees) who are doing so on the word of an adulterer 7 years after the fact once the money comes in. That just ain't right.
"BTW, 'we' (whoever 'we' are) means 'all of us'. Yes! Everyone bears a duty of shame if Terri Shiavo dies. When a mother is denied duty of care to her daughter, over a husband who has another family - we are all to blame. We allowed these laws. We are ALL to blame.
May God have mercy on us all."
And people wonder how 6 million could be killed in the Holocaust, with most of the populations of countries conquered by the Third Reich doing nothing, a lot agreeing with the Fuhrer's "euthanasia" policies, just a few risking their lives to disobey the dastardly Nazi "laws" and do the right thing to save innocents.
If the alternative is living normally...No
If the alternative is death, I think I would.
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