Posted on 03/31/2005 5:25:20 AM PST by mal
Do you remember a fellow called Robert Wendland? No reason why you should. I wrote about him in this space in 1998, and had intended to return to the subject but something else always intervened — usually Bill Clinton’s penis, which loomed large, at least metaphorically, over the entire era. Mr Wendland lived in Stockton, California. He was injured in an automobile accident in 1993 and went into a coma. Under state law, he could have been starved to death at any time had his wife requested the removal of his feeding tube. But Rose Wendland was busy with this and that, as one is, and assumed there was no particular urgency.
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I'm sorry...why are you asking me?
If you have an opinion on a subject, share it.
BTW, make sure you read the next post I made before making any faulty conclusions.
AG, I agree with you that Felos saw the Holocaust as a positive thing. Not retrospectively, but at its inception for its value in "moving us forward." Forward to what??!
Forward to a culture of death.
I agree with you that we all are marked by our decision to be for life or for death in this case.
The end result of this path is gruesome to contemplate. It will see valuations placed on individuals based on their abilities. There is great danger in having an "abilities based culture" that is willing to enforce that value with the death penalty.
Ping to #103.
We are on the same side on this, nbdy.
In resolving the Schiavo controversy it is my judgment that, despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the legislative and executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers’ blueprint for the governance of a free people — our Constitution.
Since when is the action of passing a law an action demonstrably at odds with the Constitution?
We, the baby boomers, are at that age where many of us will get Alzheimer's and begin wasting mentally. Even at the middle stages, an Alzheimer's person can no longer function in society and must be cared for pretty much around the clock.
Many of us have already seen our parents or grandparents go through this. Worse, by the numbers we are become a huge financial burden (social security, medicare) on our children and grandchildren. Whatever estate we have built in life is quickly liquidated for nursing home care and yet how few young people can afford for one to stay at home to care for the Alzheimer's parent?
Couple that guilt with the fact that many of these would be our legal guardians and heirs and we are all at a crossroad.
The 'right to die' can easily become a ‘duty to die’ in the minds of the elderly. The value of life can diminish per se. Or families could take a stand and plan for what is coming, chosing life - even a mentally confused life.
The U.S. could become a stronger Christian nation or agnostic like Europe, but it cannot tread water.
The spiritual risks are high for all generations involved. And the answers are not going to be easy for anyone.
To me, it feels like the Spirit is moving these days, forcing us to decide, to prioritize, as if to prepare us for things to come.
They are some kind of immoral, unethical heartless conservatism that balances fincial gains and losses with power principles.
There is no true American conservatism that is not pro-life, anti-euthanasia, and pro-Judeo/Christian.
I'm done with the rest of them.
Bump to that, xzins.
Me, too.
To me, it feels like the Spirit is moving these days, forcing us to decide, to prioritize, as if to prepare us for things to come.
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We are witnessing a spiritual war for the survival of our nation.
I am sorry. I do not find a feeding tube to be less legitimate.
The Pope is having trouble swallowing. Should he be disallowed his feeding tube?
And Felos is a demon.
Here is part of the dissenting opinion on that decision I previously cited containing Justice Birch's arrogant opinion.
Justice Wilson in dissent ---
I know of no case barring Congress from so dictating, and Judge Birch does not cite any. Indeed, quite to the contrary, Judge Birch cites cases establishing that both our abstention and exhaustion doctrines are prudential. See ante, at 10. If none of these dictates by itself goes beyond Congress’s power to determine the jurisdiction of federal courts, I know of no doctrine that could convert their aggregation into a separation-of-powers violation.
ping to #116...thanks Andrew
The poster was being intensely sarcastic.
When the law itself is unconstitutional -- as happens occasionally.
Why are you apologizing? I'm not the one decreeing no difference of opinion can exist. Unless you're telling me that's your position. Agree with you are damnation awaits.
I also said I was not saying I was for removal of the tube but as usual, that gets ignored.
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