Posted on 03/18/2005 10:41:59 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
No. I disagree. The brain activity is decisive whether a person is death or not. Your heart is not the place where you feel, despite all other rumors. It is widely accepted that people (more precisely: heads) who died on the Guillotine lived on for up to 1 minute (until the O2 was burned in your brain) and showed reactions. When you are shot in the heart, it is possible that you don´t get unconscious and live on until your brain runs out of O2. But Terri still has brain activity, so stopping to feed her would be murder.
Been there , done that.
Both in my professional life and in my personal life.
There is one heck of a difference in withdrawing exceptional treatment from someone who is in the process of dying and withdrawing food and fluids from someone with a healthy body.
A friend of mine confirmed this. She watched Barbara Weller on the local news station give her statement about Terri crying.
Intelliegent sure doesn't mean moral.
Is there a list of saints who survived on nothing but the Eucharist? I know some did for many many years.
Of course, she's not allowed Communion either - this is the hallmark of evil.
Hmmm, if she's enduring suffering, that would indicate she has feelings. If she has feelings she must be aware in some capacity. If she's aware in some capacity she must not be in a vegatative state or a vegetable. If she's not a vegetable then the whole argument for her death no longer applies.
Can't have it both ways.
You know that doesn't make ok, right?
Two beings in a vegitated state at the mercy of outside forces they cannot control.
What is sad is that the system in place does not default on the protection of life but on the certitude of death.
This is a sad indictment of the inhumanity (evil) that passes itself of as liberalism.
" “When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, bthat they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men [and Women], deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
whats the addy?
Me too, I'd love to see Congress "grill" Greer.
Then why did she cry, when told by an attorney, what was about to happen to her?
Can't President Bush sign an executive order?
The only person to hear her say that was her husband. He's got a conflict of interest, doesn't he??
You got that right.
The US has had a change of government during the last decades, and the federal government has become a behemoth. Our federal system is dying, while both conservative and liberals applaud, because their end justify the means.
We are becoming as centralized as France, where everyone looks at Paris for answers to their problems. Our Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.
THis would be an excellent opportunity for Florida Freepers to take action. Make a stand at the hospice facility. If freepers can march with signs when a politician comes to town, they can certainly stand up for the life of an innocent woman who is being murdered by her adulterous husband and a corrupt judge.
I generally agree, but we accept when someones committs suicide, so we should accept the individuals´ decision - even if expressed through the unanimous voices of her/his relatives.
This is getting ridiculus.
" Because she said she would rather die than be like she is."
Please read this comment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365628/posts?page=739#739
"Terri's parents were ordered to leave the room when this was happening."
Un-freaking-believable.
Did HE refuse it, or did someone knock him out and then refuse it for him?
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