Rush Shares Personal End Of Life Story (MUST READ!!!)

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 03/21/05 | Rush Limbaugh

[M Kehoe]

I had always thought a good and noble goal in life was to exit this planet without, directly or indirectly, killing someone.

Why doesn't everyone have that goal?

OK, so I'm naive, big deal.

Then again, I do carry a handcannon. Go figure.

5.56mm

[SerpentDove]

But either Rush is lying or he isn't. You believe he is.

[virgil]

I think that's right. Euthanizing someone, and that is what this is. No one wants to say it. But that's exactly what they want to do to Terri. Euthanize..cowards won't say it. That's whats at the heart of this culture of death. Saving money. 20 years ago, they didn't just shut people off like that. Now these spiders want us to believe that death is best.

[Zevonismymuse]

What's the point of replying to these people?

I know. I must be a glutton for punishment. I just like this site and think I am helping a few people think this through in a rational manner.

[Zevonismymuse]

Chances are better than average that the damage was sustained as a result of a beating by Michael Schiavo

Apparently every court and investigating agancy involved does not agree with you.

[Zevonismymuse]

If actually true, how does she sit upright in a chair?

Because balance is a function of the basil ganglia, not the cerebral cortex.

[Servant of the 9]

But either Rush is lying or he isn't. You believe he is.

I've been listening to Rush since he first went National, and yes, Rush lies.
He's a junkie for God's sake.
And don't tell me how he got that way, or that he stopped.
How he got that way is irrelevant to the effects and like an alcoholic, he may be 'dry' now, but he'll always be a junkie.

You don't think he lied to everyone about his habit?
Or were you too worshipful to notice?

Rush Limbaugh is a great man, and a conservative icon, but he is not a Saint.

SO9

[XR7]

"Euthanasia" Killings in Nazi Germany

(http://www.holocaust-trc.org/hndcp.htm)

Forced sterilization in Germany was the forerunner of the systematic killing of the mentally ill and the handicapped. In October 1939, Hitler himself initiated a decree which empowered physicians to grant a "mercy death" to "patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health." The intent of the so-called "euthanasia" program, however, was not to relieve the suffering...

[SweetCaroline]

If she is not aware then what difference does it make if her parents continued to take care of her?

....my daughter died some years ago, I would have loved to care for her if she would have survived, no matter what was wrong with her!

....my heart just breaks for this mother!

[zot]

Thanks for the ping.

The decision in this case should have been simple. Her husband wants her to die. Her parents want her to live. Nobody knows what she wants. Regardless of how disabled she is, it hurts no one to give her to her parents and let them take care of her.

[XR7]

[LibertarianInExile]

Not buggin' me at all. I'm glad at least one person agrees with me, instead of jumping on the "mess-with-federalism-like-liberals do" bandwagon.

[It's me]

How many of you on this site are divorced and left your wife/husband for a better one but are hammering Mike Sciavo for doing the same thing.

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HE'S STILL MARRIED!!!

He should divorce her if he wants another woman.

[It's me]

Quote: Food and water are not artificial.

A feeding tube IS artificial.

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Is an IV artificial?

[AlbionGirl]

It's not even just money Virgil, it's that when Mom becomes a problem she'd better only be a little problem because if she isn't then reconsideration is in order.

Part of that is because we've lost that connection and love for extended families being together for their lifetime. Grandma used to be taken in, not sent packing. When real, true love of family breaks down, this kind of stuff happens. Suffering is insufferable to the smooth palmed and well heeled. Life always meant something to those who understood the unfathomable profundity of the precariousness of it.

This is a historical watershed moment, IMO. Recapturing the culture is imperative, but that assumes that there lies somewhere, underpinnings worth recapturing. I do think they are there, but they can't be found in large measure, and for the most part, they can't be found among the upper middle class.

[conservative cat]

My mother was brain dead and never would of been able to survive on her own.

I had a friend who also had an aneurysm and was truly brain dead (no brain activitiy at all) and was taken off life support. You are absolutely right- there is a huge difference. He was dead with machines keeping him breathing.

[lodwick]

We all might live, if we stop jacking with the "terriers."

[agrace]

Is it always the desire for MONEY that causes mankind to do such horrible things to those we once loved?

Maybe.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

[RPTMS]

You mean cold hard falsehoods. You should try going a week without food, asshole.

[RPTMS]

The most important fact to me is that they are starving this woman to death. Many souls will go to hell for this.