Posted on 03/21/2005 7:50:03 AM PST by Pendragon_6
She may well have been anorexic, but you stated that her anorexia caused her brain damage. That is NOT a fact.
No problem...appreciate your consideration.
It's hard to know what IS the truth. We've heard so many stories from both sides that it's hard to know what to believe. Some medical people (nurses) say she IS cognizant. So, who to believe?
Very good! :)
I actually have a lot to say in response but I'm getting tired and need to go.
I understand Michael and his pain - I've been there with my own wife. I know what it's like to come to the realization the woman I love will never recover and come back to me.
I know for a fact it affects you mentally. You behave as if another person was playing your part. In my case I started frequenting bars and picked up women. After a dozen flings and one-night stands I met a wonderful woman and my life became better again. Stability resumed.
Good for Michael for also finding someone with whom he can be made whole once more.
No, it's neutral as far as I'm concerned. The pet thing is not so neutral -- I would continue to look after my wife's pets if she were 'gone'.
The truth of the matter for motivation to this saga is QUITE simple:...FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!
Hmmmmm.....This is one area the government should be in--protecting a life.
Nice response.
I, like many here, have been on both sides of the fence. When my wife's parents both contracted aggressive cancer, one esophageal, one brain, we faced the final question that many children face, "When do we stop trying to coerce them into eating and drinking, even a little bit?"
Both were in the hospice program, both knew their fates, both had made their peace with God. But, that didn't make the decision any easier when it came time.
Also, I've been on the side of Terri Schiavo's family. Please pardon this if you've read it already (as my response to another poster) from another thread.
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"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.
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The decisions are never easy. We fall, and we get back up again.
Since Nov 9, 2004
A baby bumble newbie.
first Michael Schiavo beats and strangles his wife Terri, leaves her lying unconscious on the floor until her family arrives to get her to the hospital.
Does this mean if she dies he is charged with murder?
On threads posted weeks ago, MS was accused of wanting to kill Terri so he could keep the rest of the money they won from their lawsuits rather than spend it on Terri. Since then I have heard reports that there isn't much money left. I still haven't heard if anyone has confirmed whether or not he has a large life insurance policy on Terri.
CHECK OUT MOVIE AND BOOK RIGHTS HE AND HIS LAWYER HAVE CUT...THERE'S YOUR ANSWER.
Lovely girl. Why has God arranged this circus for her?
It's a matter of tailoring the punishments to fit the crime. I once attended a 50th anniverary party and sat beside a Catholic priest. He opened up to me when he found out I wasn't Catholic and we discussed the various levels of Catholic doctrine and punishments over dinner. He waved his arm around the room and said nearly every one of his parishioners practiced birth control in definace of the church's teachings but if he was ever going to enforce the punishment of prohibiting communion to him, he will lose his entire congregation.
The same goes with living together when marriage is impossible. For example, the Philippines is one of the few countries in the world that prohibits divorce. Only the rich can get annulments so the vast majority of separated couples can't remarry unless one dies. Consequently, there is a very large number of people who live together without marriage. The church tolerates this because the alternative is to allow divorce.
We got a lot of newbies in the fall of 2004 with strange ideas. I think the Rathergate publicity may have brought in a lot of sleeper-cell disruptors.
Out of I think seven wives, only two were executed for adultry/treason, Ann Bolyn and Jane Seymor who by the way actually did commit adultry with her old lover. Kathrine of Aragon, Ann of Cleaves of whome he divirced, King Edwards mother(she died giving birth to him), Kathrine Parr was his last wife and outlived King Henry VIII.
Edward, in case you missed it, I was lampooning post #227, with which you wholeheartedly agreed.
I have no opinion on cryogenics. You'll need to not assign opinions to me on this, for there are enough rude opinions on that to go around, from others.
Rush Limbaugh quoting "When is that B... Going to Die?" NOW.
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