Posted on 03/18/2005 10:41:59 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Greer gives order
According to those caring for her, she has made her wishes clear: she wants to live.
It's NCAA tourney time . . . I learned a long time ago, bet with your brain, not your heart.
Nothing like the peace of being excruciatingly, painfully starved to death over a few weeks period.
If it is, then you are in need of help.
If you believe other people want to die, you are wrong. It is God's call, not yours. If Terri is naturally dying, then that is fine.
But she isn't.
Apparently, you listen only to the bad media and have not visited www.terrisfight.org for a different opinion.
Adolf Hitler killed himself to avoid what was going to happen to him. But that was wrong. However, if someone had killed Hitler to bring about an early end of World War II, as the Desert Fox tried and failed, that is okay.
If you defend lives by doing something truly necessary -- such as taking a life -- that is considered justified.
Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote the Theology of the Just War in which self-defense is described.
But how is Terri Schiavo a threat to society?
Well said. The subpoenas state that no one is to touch any of the equipment.
I will never forget hearing people say that there was nothing they could do for me and that I was for sure going to die. I was crying inside and unable to reply or communicate with anyone.
I remember it all. My mother and father crying and asking the doctor if I was in pain and the doctor telling them I had no chance at survival.
Im glad no one gave up on me because miracles can and do happen.
What would yo do? Hold a pillow over her face and suffocate her? Give someone else a pillow to hold over her face?
If she were my mother, I'd treat her bedsores.
I am not talking of feeding tubes, but of dealing with coma patients. In 1945 nobody bothered to determine that the brain functions of a coma patient stopped. Today we really have to consider that our end could be in the intensive station.
...and any personnel that removes the tube?
va fa' in quel paese.
Nope! I'd LET HER go to rehab! That way she wouldn't HAVE to be bedridden ALL THE TIME!!!
I still don't know where I stand on this issue, but I admire all the people who feel so strongly for Terri's life.
I look at the pictures of people crying and praying en masse for her and it chills me.
I feel that if she is dehydrated to death that this issue of right to live won't end with her death but will continue to turn into a powderkeg.
Very explosive situation.
What troubles me most is the fact we do NOT know as much as we think we know about the human brain. Up until a few years ago scientists die not believe new neurons grew in the brain. NOW it is commonly accepted that neuron growth does occur. (not enough to replace an entire injured brain but some growth of note)
The sad part is that the well has been so poisoned with outside activists and now Judicial Egomania that a reasonable compromise may never be possible. No matter how this ends, it will be a tradgedy for those immediatly involved (not the activists not judge wackado)
I hope you didn't misunderstand my post - to say that force feeding a human being basic nourishment is "torture" is the height of absurdity when we do the same for infants. We force feed them because it's caring, not cruel...
I hope that source can be trusted!
Hey, Moron, oops, Monroe... you never responded to my post on the other Terri thread, so, I'll say again...
"15 years of this vegetable doing bedsores...
I would not wish this life on anyone I care for. Would you? If it was your mom, or sister, or wife, would you?"
I don't care if you're genetically linked to Jim, George Bush, Marilyn Monroe, or Marilyn Manson. You are indeed a "knuckle-dragger" just like your page states.
I believe passionately in the sanctity of innocent life. If I err, I err on the side of life. I am ardently pro-life (even though I wasn't in my early college years), and anti-euthanasia.
My younger brother's only child, my niece, from birth was very much like Terri Schiavo. Her health problems resulted from genetic issues. She never spoke a word. She never walked. She never crawled. She never fed herself. She could not hug with her arms. She died when she was 13.
Her life, and the look in her eyes when she went in her special wheelchair outside for walks, spoke volumes, and shouted out to the world that she could make a difference.
And you know what? She did more to heal people around her (in particular, my mother and father) than a thousand sermons, a thousand pontificating politicians, or a thousand professors of ethics ever could.
Was she a vegetable? If she was, the world needs more such vegetables, and less knuckle-draggers.
The image of my niece, and her ability (although miniscule) to be happy, will not allow me to accept some euthanasia-happy society that arbitrarily decides who lives a 'worthy' life or not. And that includes the "Greer Reaper".
Or you.
Boy are you uneducated. Happens every day, in every state. I have two coworkers who chose this for their parent or grandparent in the last few years.
It's one thing if her body is hanging on because of medical devices, it's another if she's in pain and suffering with no hope of relief. It's another if she's got an active mind trapped by a incapacitated body.
We have millions of dollars of medical equipment out there to answer questions about her real mental condition. Why don't they use them?
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