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Janet Rivera...

Killing her softly with your funds...(?)

Reason.com merely points out in a helpful way the situation with Janet Rivera and how she will be allowed to live, and who will wind up paying for it. Recall, lefties are very generous with the funds of others, but try to pull a nickel out of their own pockets.

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Should authorities pull the plug on Janet Rivera, a woman who has been comatose for a couple of years in a Fresno, Calif. special care facility? In mid-July, Rivera's court-appointed conservator, on the advice of five physicians, asked that her respirator be removed and food and water be withheld. Some family members objected and the conservator reversed his request.

Rivera's situation differs in many respects from the Terri Schiavo case. First, Rivera is described as being comatose. Comatose by itself implies a possibly transient inability to respond to stimuli and temporary deep unconsciousness. On the other hand, the five physicians consulted by the conservator believe Rivera's unconsciousness is irreversible. Second, unlike the Schiavo case, Rivera's family members apparently all agree that she should receive artificial hydration and nutrition. And third, again unlike Schiavo's case, no one claims to know what Rivera would want to be done.

Although Rivera's court-appointed conservator says that expense played no role in his decision to have hydration and nutrition tubes withdrawn, there is an issue concerning how Rivera's care is being paid for. On July 28, the Chicago Tribune reported:.................................

Another Terri Schiavo Muddle in the Making?

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Eluana Englaro update...

Actually, I am heartened that this case is making such a disturbance in Europe. I am sure the perps expected this would be a non-newsworthy event basically ignored by the public, but it is blowing up. Effect of Terri's Legacy??

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The issue of euthanasia is making the headlines in Italy over a woman who has been in a coma for 16-years.

It follows a move by state prosecutors to appeal against a Milan court ruling allowing her family to remove the feeding tube that has kept her alive.

Eluana Englaro, 37, has been in a vegetative state since being hurt in a 1992 car crash.

Now the Italian parliament has passed a resolution saying judges have no right to decide such matters. But some politicians are calling for clear legislation.

Antonello Soro of the Democratic Party said: “there needs to be a law to cover the final part of life, to avoid the judicial vaccuum that exists at the moment, that leaves judges lacking the legal framework with which to deal with these problems.”

The judges say Eluano’s coma has been proven irreversible and that before the accident she had stated her preference to die rather than being kept alive.

But the Vatican has criticised the ruling, calling it a mistake.

Euthanasia calls get louder in Italy

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Recall, lefties are very generous with the funds of others, but try to pull a nickel out of their own pockets.

I know it's all the rage to lump all left-wing people together and demonize them, but I must take exception to this statement. There are a lot of left-wingers in my family, and to a person they are extremely generous with both their money and their time. This includes a very well-to-do sister-in-law who has more than once paid for hospital stays for other people. In fact, the only person in my extended family who can be said to be stingy is my very conservative brother-in-law, himself quite well off. So go figure. *shrug*