Posted on 03/26/2005 8:31:30 AM PST by FairOpinion
Terri Schiavo's parents will not ask a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision that left their brain-damaged daughter without her feeding tube, leaving one of their last hopes with a state judge who has ruled against them before, one of their lawyers said Saturday.
A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta refused Friday night to order the reconnection of the tube, which was removed March 18 on a state judge's order.
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Amen, brother!
I would like to see a poll,where people are asked the following questions:
1. Stray animals, slated for destruction are allowed to live, if someone is willing to adopt them. Terry's parents are willing to assume all responsibility for her, do you think she should have been released to her parent's care, or put to death anyway, for the convenience of her husband?
2. Do you believe people should be allowed to kill inconvenient family members, regardless of their mental state, as long as they are unable to communicate their wishes?
3. Do you think it's right to require proof beyond reasonable doubt, before convicting criminals, but apply the death sentence to innocent people, even when substantial doubts remain as to their mental state and personal wishes?
4. Do you think someone should be able to continue to be someone's guardian, even when they withhold medical care and comfort, such as treating their ward for infection or allowing them outside to get some sunshine?
5. In Terri's case there are substantial doubts as to her mental state and her wishes, her parents want to take care of her, several nurses also signed affidavits about Terri's responsiveness. Do you think she should be put to death?
We don't like it when the lefties call our president or our soldiers Nazis. In fact, we laugh at the left for throwing out the Nazi or fascist accusation at the drop of a hat, so why are hyperbole and slander like that okay when done by "our" side, for "our" issues?
What's up with that?
I've said this repeatedly, but obviously it needs to be said again. A person's feelings regarding whether or not Terri should live or die have nothing to do with political affiliation or religious principles. One Freeper said that they were threatened with banishment from a Christian message board because he or she vehemently supports Terri and the other members don't. Several well-known liberals have said that they disagree with starving her to death. My husband and I are libertarian-leaning Republicans and we believe that Terri's most basic right, her right to life, is being violated.
So now they just reported on FOX that it was denied. FOX screwed up because I saw that crawler and it is why I came to see what FReepers were saying about it. Too bad...
And that's exactly where we are headed. Want more parallels? Just ask.
“By 1938, German literature and art, and especially, film began to celebrate lives unworthy of living in a host of propagandistic projects." (ever heard of Million Dollar Baby and The Sea Inside?)
"This is where I suggest that we are now implementing the same ideas in our society that were used so efficiently by the Nazis,” Mostert said."
"...the Nazi programme of euthanasia, called T4, that began with the collusion of the medical establishment and the courts.."
As you have shown, we are losing more than just Terri. I'm sad for all we are losing. I never thought I would see the day where something like this would happen--not only happen, but happen with full approval from authorities, not to mention a portion of the public that is disturbingly large.
I don't believe this is what our Founding Fathers risked everything and in a lot of cases, spilled their blood for. They must be all spinning in their graves.
Today in top medical journals there is debate about changing the definition of death, about the use of PVS patients for medical experiments, and about taking chronically ill or brain-damaged children to surgery, removing their organs, and presumably having them die on the table as they do it.
If you think there is much sanctity of life left in this country today, think again.
"Imagine a forty two year old man in a severe car accident that renders him comatose for 16 months. A feeding tube is inserted for hydration and nutrition. The patient regains consciousness and some functional abilities though his deficits render him severely disabled. He can maneuver a motorized wheelchair on command, hand a ball to his therapist 80 to 100 percent of the time and show appropriate emotional responses such as kissing his mother's hand. His wife requests that the feeding tube be removed and he be transported to a nursing home where he will die from dehydration. The hospital ethics committee agrees. The patient's mother and sister intervene through the courts and an injunction is obtained to prohibit the dehydration."
" Smith presents a chilling side-by-side analysis of the 1920 book by two respected professors Alfred Hoche and Karl Binding (Permitting the Destruction of Life not Worthy of Life), and current arguments advanced by proponents of the euthanasia and assisted suicide."
"In the book, Smith details the "food and fluid" legal cases as well as case studies of real people where death by dehydration was advocated or permitted. Some of these patients were not comatose nor in a persistent vegetative state."
The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Start with post 49.
Come home, come home ye who are weary come home.
Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling, calling o sinner come home.
Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing, passing from you and from me
Shadows are gathering deaths night is coming, coming for you and for me
Come home, come home, ye who are weary come home
Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling, calling o sinner come home.
One would think Terri has passed the point of no return. Her journey to meet death, which started when she said "I do" in marrying her executioner, is about to end.
If you're a kid, go play elsewhere.
If you're an adult, you must be one sick sadistic SOB.
You guys missed my joke. It was meant to point out that Greer thinks he is ABOVE God and can prevent him from claiming Terri's soul.....
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