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To: NYCVirago
As the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has pointed out, she was deprived food and water simply because of her disability.

Well, bonus points for creativity, but realistically, she was denied food and water because that's what she wanted. So the law determined, anyway, right or wrong.

2,408 posted on 03/31/2005 6:37:08 PM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: general_re
Well, bonus points for creativity, but realistically, she was denied food and water because that's what she wanted. So the law determined, anyway, right or wrong.

The law says there has to be "clear and convincing" evidence that this is what she wanted. Offhand comments allegedly made to Michael Schiavo, which were never brought up by him until after the malpractice suits were finished, and which nobody heard but him and his family, don't meet those standards. Besides, even the comments she supposedly made addressed being on a ventilator, not being deprived of food and water.

2,435 posted on 03/31/2005 6:53:34 PM PST by NYCVirago
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This entire episode was like a runaway train roaring straight down the track because that's where the tracks went. No way to switch to a side track because of mistakes, stupidity, or deliberate malice. We watched it all and argued about minutiae while the train crashed and those on board died. And oh, dear, Greta's just said they have a tape of the Schindlers being ordered not to attend Terri's funeral. Well.


2,438 posted on 03/31/2005 6:57:03 PM PST by hershey
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To: general_re
Well, bonus points for creativity, but realistically, she was denied food and water because that's what she wanted.

Now I don't know that...And her so-called husband had stated many times for years that he didn't know that, so how is it that you know that???

2,468 posted on 03/31/2005 7:17:33 PM PST by Iscool
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