Posted on 03/27/2005 2:35:40 PM PST by gopwinsin04
Ann Coulter
That's a red herring. Even if Terri had had a living will prior to her trauma, it could not have specified that she wanted to be starved and dehydrated to death because that was not even a legal option at the time. In fact, in the state of Florida, it was Felos and his death cult, which included members of the Florida House and Senate, that ramroded the legislation that would allow it, even as Terri was being denied rehabilitative therapy.
Isn't that the painful truth?
You know what?
I'm convinced that a lot of people don't give a rat's ass what Mike Schiavo and Judge Greer did.
It shows in the polling and general attitudes. A lot of people think "Hey, it didn't happen to me or anyone I know. Why the F*** should I care?"
My only hope is that a long and expensive wrongful death suit is filed against Mike Schiavo and hopefully Judge Greer if possible.
I wanna see both these clowns dragged thru the mud and have their reputations totally smeared beyond any hope of redemption.
Even if Mike Schiavo gets off on the wrongful death charge, I want it to be that he's ashamed to show his face in public no matter where he lives.
I'd love to see his co-workers shun him and people on the stareet call him a murdering thug.
Is she needs a morphine drip to ease her pain, wouldn't that mean, then, that she is not totally brain-dead? If she were truly vegetative, wouldn't she even feel or be aware of anything? That alone makes me question the right to remove the feeding tube.
(Sorry if this is naive, but I know zilch about physiology, let alone health care.)
Whoops. I thought a "patient in a PVS didn't feel pain." Or that "starvation and dehydration would bring about a euphoric state."
OK, which is it? I look to the NYT, La Times, ABC, etc. to provide me the correct answer...
LOL! I crack me up sometimes.
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For lack of having the exact mentality that you describe, I was criticized for my distress during 9/11, and the days following, at my job where I had worked for 12 years. (in NY, no less). It is also exactly part of why I no longer work there.
But what is the solution when it is your country with the attitude? How exactly do you "quit" or better your circumstances? Please advise.
"The Schindlers attorney said that Mrs. Schiavo is declining rapidly and a morphine drip has been administered by medical staff at her hospice to help her ease her pain"
I strongly doubt the morphine drip is being administered 'to help her ease Terri's pain'......no the morphine drip is being administered to help hasten Terri's death AND to help ease the discomfort of the hospice staff.
It MUST be uncomfortable for the hospice staff witnessing Terri's agonizingly painful death.
DAMN THEM ALL.
I am so sorry. Today must be a particularly hard day for you. I have lost both parents. They live on in my heart as your mother does in yours. And in quiet moments you will remember. You will teach and love and cherish with all she taught you to be.
I admire your optimism.
I don't like it that so many are dumping on Jeb and Dubya. Whether I believe they've done all they could do or not is irrelevant. I can't see the world through their eyes and with their responsibilities, so I don't feel qualified to make that judgement. At the same time, I can forgive a lot because this is such an intensely emotional and soul wrenching event, that it isn't so hard to understand that people are speaking out of their pain, and I won't judge that either.
I really do hope you're right about the criminal investigation. Perhaps I have become a bit cynical, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Except, the legislative can not enforce the law, however the Governor and the President have armies of prosecutors, in fact they even have armies.
He put on quite an act behaving as though he was grasping for words to express himself. Many, I'm sure, believed every word he said.
The judges hold themselves out as superior in knowledge and assert that the premise of the system is "justice." It's their baby, bad lawering notwithstanding. At some point, especially when life is in the balance, substance is supposed to triumph over form. Just because the mothpiece is an ass is no reason to kill the client.
I'll wait and see how the PR battle plays out. I predict there will be some judicial casualties, but the system will go on, flawed, and sanctity of life will be poo-poo'ed as an historic anacronism.
You on the other hand preach the gospel of Michael. Fair enough, I guess.
You can't blame the judges without laying some blame on the lawyers. I'm blaming both (and blaming the Schindler lawyers a bit more for being clueless what to do in Federal Court, even after Congress told them what to do).
The Schindlers taking advice from Randall Terry didn't help their cause in the court of public opinion, either.
Head in the sand makes so much more sense.
Drip, drip, drip.......You know of course that Euthanasia was approved by all the courts in Germany.
You really don't get it, do you? Sad...
Are you sure? The en banc decisions were heavily in favor of upholding the lower court, and avoided probing the judgement of the fact finder. I think that is a systematic "circle the wagons" behavior, rooted in form over substance. Pharisees if you will. At some point, the judges come off as defensive when they blame the lawyers. E.g., why blow off the motion that the patient said "I don't want to die" (I know, the patient isn't able to communicate clearly, and maybe didn't communicate at all), because it wasn't timely. How in God's creation that can be justified is beyond me.
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