[justshutupandtakeit]

Thousands are allowed to die in the USA in this manner every week. There was nothing unusual about it. The only thing unusual about it was an organized political movement which made what was normally a private concern a public one.

And we are not speaking of "handicapped" people but people with nothing of life left but a semblence. No society can spend millions on such cases of which there are thousands at any given time. It simply isn't possible. Nor would it have even been an issue at any time but recently since individuals cannot afford to pay for this only socialized medicine can. Patients simply were allowed to die until recently.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

Murder is never a private family issue.

The cold blooded forced starvation death of an innocent person who is not terminal is never a private family issue and I never want it to be a private family matter in such circumstances.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

And we are not speaking of "handicapped" people but people with nothing of life left but a semblence.

You have no idea what you're talking about. She was not a vegetable and over 33 doctors swore to that. Mentally she was at the level of a severely retarded person.

And even if someone is deemed a "vegetable" there is no conclusive scientific evidence that states he or she can never come back to life. There are known cases where those classified as brain dead did in fact recover, with some today living normal lives.

It's not our duty to kill anyone because the justshutupandtakeits of the world think it's their time and what they would have wanted anyway.

[lula]

It became public when the family couldn't agree. I'm glad it did. We never would have known on what scale this had been going on.

If you were to have followed this case you would know she was not PVS. That is what ONE doctor diagnosed. This same doctor diagnosed another patient a policeman who is now walking and talking.

Who are you to decide the worth of anyone?

This WAS a case of JUDICIAL MURDER.

Tom Delay should have said the things he said. The GOP should have backed him 100%

[Graymatter]

No society can spend millions on such cases of which there are thousands at any given time. It simply isn't possible. Nor would it have even been an issue at any time but recently since individuals cannot afford to pay for this only socialized medicine can.

That's really twisted. Socialized medicine can not pay for this, and socialized medicine is what lets your economic argument in the door. "We" should kill these people because "we" can't afford them because "we" have to pay for the care of others more deserving.
It's about the sanctity of life, it's not about money until socialism reduces human life to the level of a commodity.