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To: Marie

Try acting rationally. As it happens I am older (66), disabled, diabetic, and am in 3rd stage Congestive Heart Failure and A-Fib. In the circumstances being considered I would be less likely to be treated than any of your folks. I definitely want to go on living, but if I found that a Doctor had to let a healthy young person die and treated me because of some policy of fairness, I would feel ashamed.


35 posted on 04/26/2009 1:58:46 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
OK. Come on over to my house. Meet my son. He's 15 years old. Got an IQ of 145. He loves animals, has a great sense of humor and wants to be a volunteer firefighter. He can shoot, build traps from scratch and is currently nursing a tomato plant. He loves G-d, passionately argues politics with his grandfather and is very much looking forward to being a husband and father. He's used his humor to overcome more hell than most people will ever know. His motto is, "Where there's breath, there's hope." He's counseled a grown woman out of suicide with that humor and compassion.

You tell him that he's "life not fit for life" because G-d saw fit to "tweak" his immune system.

If people *choose* to give their lives to save another, that's fine. But it's IMMORAL to allow someone to die just because they're weak or disabled.

Sorry that I can't be "rational" about my only son being put on a eugenics culling list.

(My daughter might make it. Her problem is correctable with surgery. How *grateful* I should be that "they" might give her a chance to continue breathing. /s)

And YES, I believed that life is precious and worth fighting for *before* my son was diagnosed. "Compassionate" Conservatives, my ass!

40 posted on 04/26/2009 2:09:54 AM PDT by Marie ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Most decent people would “self choose” treatment or not.

If my grandchildren or children or sons in law were seriously ill as I was I and there was a shortage of available treatment, I would without reservation say “treat them first” out of love. I think all of us would do such.


51 posted on 04/26/2009 3:30:48 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Prayers for you!


124 posted on 04/26/2009 1:58:20 PM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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