Posted on 01/21/2006 11:23:34 PM PST by Bullitt
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The sister of Terri Schiavo said Saturday that her family's failed court struggle to keep the brain-damaged woman alive shows a society that has "lost sight of the value" of human life.
Suzanne Vitadamo said her sister did not want to die and was not terminal when she died after her feeding tube was removed in March. Schiavo's husband, Michael, had a court order to remove the tube.
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OK. Disregard my responses as well then :)
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"The United States engaged in a world war it didn't have to be involved in. The US gained NOTHING for itself by doing so, but freed millions from starvation, death, and torture by doing so. In summary, the US did it because they valued all human life, even those beyond its borders."
True. Why would I disagree? But, millions of Germans, Italians, Turks, and Japanese, who were on the enemy side, died also. Their dead's lives had value too, don't you think? My whole point was about the value of life.
Not just them there's plenty on the Fiscal Conservative end who would dance for the chance as well in the name of corporate profit margins.
Got that right.
And for thousands of years, good people have fought evil. While people like yourself accept it.
I was reading the piece knowing a Big Lie making Michael Schiavo the good guy was coming, and there it was. It's almost as if the reporter is saying, "Screw the facts. The truth is what I say it is, and there's nothing you can do about it."
I probably was a more content person way back when I swallowed everything a reporter wrote or said because I figured they couldn't say it if it wasn't true. It doesn't help that there are millions of people who are like I once was, and are angered when you say openly, "the press is lying to you."
Good bumper sticker, poor logic. Using your reasoning, there is no country on the planet that "values life."
Think I'm wrong? Think, McFly, think: countries, by nature, have borders that need to be protected. If they are not protected, they are eventually breached. Tell me how someone who "values life" by your definition would go about preserving a country that refuses to fight back against a "merciless, zealot enemy."
Amen to that!
Wait a minute, the U.S. Constitution makes it perfectly clear that women have the right to choose abortion:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
And if you can't see it there, then you are against choice. Against freedom, and against America, and life and liberty and...
...This satire is discontinued on account of it being too close to how the left "thinks"--or whatever it is they do to come up with they're psychotic notions about the Constitution.
I Agree. If anything, You can keep a list of names of people you never ever want to hire. :o)
I don't know about you but I don't want to kill someone not knowing for sure if it was the right thing to do. That's not something I'd rather explain to God.
As for delusional thinking, people in as bad of shape as her have recovered before. Such things are called miracles and they do on occasion happen. Not that you'll see something like that on the nightly news since it doesn't fit into their nice little worldview.
Really? Please show us some evidence of any case where a patient has regrown brain cells. Medical science says that can't happen, so I'll be interested in your response and totally prepared to admit that I and medical science are wrong.
According to her attending physicians who had been treating her for months, Terri was in a persistent vegetative state, pretty much the same as Karen Ann Quinlan. With the large number of brain cells that had been destroyed, she had zero chance of recovery. Terri had commented years earlier after seeing a documentary about Karen Ann Quinlan that she wouldn't want to live like that, and if she ever ended up in that situation that her family should "pull the plug." The court ruled that her wishes should be respected.
The Schiavo case opened a large rift between members here at Free Republic, and I don't understand why. I've always understood that conservatism meant that the "nanny state" that regulates your life from cradle to grave is a bad thing, and that we should move toward a smaller government that interferes as little as possible with a person's life. And yet I saw members of my own party trying to pass a law that overturned what Terri had stated to be her end of life choice.
The best thing about the Schiavo case is that it will motivate millions of people to write living wills, to establish their end of life choices in writing so there will be no question about what they want. And the worst thing about the case is that members of my own Republican party thought that they could override Terri's personal decision about how she wanted to end her life.
I used to call myself a Barry Goldwater Republican. I'm not even sure what that means any more. Maybe I'm the only one left.
Are you pro death penalty?
"You can't compare abortion and the Schiavo case. I'm sorry, but the Schiavos were delusional in thinking that their daughter could recover."
And, this is the core of the problem here. Folks like you who support placing life and death matters into the hands of those who have pure political motivations are sending us down a path of no return with consequences you will not like for you and yours in the future. You have made a charge here which cannot be known.."The Schiavos were delusional." The Schiavos were with their daughter each and every day and let me tell you something..Anyone, anywhere, who puts total confidence into the assessment of the medical profession is a fool. The finest physicians make frequent mistakes in projecting outcomes, because, first of all, they are not God and second of all, new information comes out all the time which changes ideas and approaches to everything. The brain and the nervous system is a NEW FRONTIER and little is known about it. That is why diseases such as ALS are so mysterious and hard to treat. We used to think that by the time a child was five years old, mental and psychological abilities were set and could never be physically changed in the brain..Now, we know the brain is not fully developed and is constantly being developed and "pruned" until the age of 21 or later. The rejuvenation of the brain might be possible in the future..We just do not have the answers. I found the Terri Schiavo case very disturbing in a number of ways..I felt we were sanctioning "euthanasia" which could expand to include lots of folks..I felt we were sanctioning potentially, terrible spouse abuse..I felt we were sanctioning awarding the money from the lawsuit to the wrong person, the husband whose role in all of this was and continues to be very muddy. I felt that it was a travesty to allow him to continue to be her legal guardian. The connection of the Hemlock Society to this case through the legal representation was very disturbing. I cannot even recall all of the insults to my intelligence, but it was daily and it is still very disturbing to think about..
It is those who don't value life that are unwilling to stand up and defend it. Defending it takes action not talk. Sometimes that action is war.
When you don't value anything enough to die for, you really have nothing to live for.
No one better understands the value of life than those putting it on the line to protect their families and country.
Too bad you don't seem to understand that.
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