Dean 'Appalled' That Florida Lawmakers Saved Schiavo

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 11/07/03 | Jeff Johnson

[sport]

Why is it that you never see the individuals that advocate that it is,"A duty to Die" or it is, "Your Right to Die", never leading by example?

Or phrased another way, Why is it that they only want you to die and never them?

Could someone please answer those questions?

[archy]

Oh, yeah! This is really gonna get him a lot of fans!

Particularly in nursing homes and advanced age care facilities... It ought to make a dandy topic of conversation in the dining hall facilities....

[archy]

Why is it that you never see the individuals that advocate that it is,"A duty to Die" or it is, "Your Right to Die", never leading by example?

Or phrased another way, Why is it that they only want you to die and never them?

Could someone please answer those questions.

Don't be silly. They're not really like that, and they do have your best interests in mind, after all.

Now get back in line or I'll have to use the cattle prod again.

[sport]

I understand.

Silly me for doubting.

[The Other Harry]

And this Other Harry still doesn't have a clue.

I have a clue about this subject. You may not.

[Miss Marple]

Right you are about Dean's character and personna.

I hope he can keep his campaign together through the primaries. Even if he doesn't win the nomination, every day he makes comments sends some moderates into the Republican camp.

[The Other Harry]

I kept my father alive for years. You really need to know what that is like. It didn't help him.

[mac_truck]

Is this your premise: "Well, Mommy can't feed herself anymore due to her crippling arthritis, pull the plug?" Because Terri's case is a lot closer to that scenario than someone hooked up to a bunch of machines.

I really don't see how you can logically compare the Terri Schiavo situation to someone with crippling athritis. While both patients require someone else to care for them, only one is aware of their surroundings and has the ability to understand and communicate.

[The Other Harry]

This pisses me off more than any other subject I have ever encountered.

It is more than what I have said so far. That is just a dribble.

The hospital room and the resperator rightfully belong to someone who might live. Giving them to someone who can't live is morally wrong. It takes them away from those who can.

If we had unlimited resources, this would not be true. But as things stand, it is true.

And sometimes, it is just better to let someone go.

[kenth]

The culture of death has become so ingrained in our society and moral relativism so strong, that many do not see the line that divides "letting her go to God" and "sending her to God".

It's the same moral relativism that allows one to be so flippant in deeming food and water as being part of "respirators and the like". That makes it easier doesn't it? Referring to food and water as "the like". That's what PC and moral relativism is designed to do. It allows us to accept the unacceptable.

Killing a disabled person through starvation, against their will? No, we'll call it removing artificial life support and letting them go to God; their right-to-die.

[The Other Harry]

I don't really know.

We all do die. There is a time that comes. I do not think is right to allocate scarce resources to those whose time has come. I don't want it done for me.

[NonValueAdded]

You miss my point. Think "slippery slope."

[diamond6]

""embarrassed" for intervening to save the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo last month"

Well, this says it all about his character. I am embarrased that he is running for president... and "deeply saddened".

[tertiary01]

The Democrat Party never misses an opportunity to display the message that they are the party of death.

[tertiary01]

Remember, the symptoms of persistent vegetative state and lack of cognition are merely subjective. Terri's case proves this. Do you want to be killed because of someone's opinion?

[dead]

"I feel very strongly that we ought to honor life, and we ought not to create a system where people are being deprived of nutrition or hydration in a way that ends their lives," Lieberman said.

No wonder the liberals hate Lieberman so much.

[Campion]

Continuing to keep her alive with respirators and the like does no one any favors.

Why don't you at least make a weak effort to get the facts of the case right before spouting your ill-informed opinion that someone else deserves to die?

She's not on a respirator, never has been. She's on a feeding tube, and there's evidence that she could learn to eat from a spoon. (Her nurses say she's eaten Jellow before with no problem.) However, her husband and the evil judge in his pocket refuse to let that effort even be made.

[kenth]

There is a time that comes. I do not think is right to allocate scarce resources to those whose time has come. I don't want it done for me.

Scarce resources? Food and water are scarce resources? By what criteria do YOU decide when a person's "time has come"?

BTW, have you realized yet that Terri is not on a respirator?

[GeekDejure]

"As a medical doctor...," claims Florida Republicans should be "embarrassed" for intervening to save the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo last month. Earlier in the year, Dean publicly expressed his support for physician-assisted suicide.

Uckfay Ouyay, Owardhay Eanday !!!

And you have the nerve to call yourself a Doctor???

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[Redleg Duke]

The difference between God and a doctor?

God doesn't think he is a doctor.