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To: w6ai5q37b
We're not lied to. We have decided that if we were in that condition we would not want to live.

Is that so hard to understand?

Is it the right of the Courts or a family member to undo that decision and do what THEY want.

13 posted on 03/31/2005 3:25:09 PM PST by OldFriend ( SAW MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ON CSPAN........AWESOME)
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To: OldFriend
Is it the right of the Courts or a family member to undo that decision and do what THEY want.

Never. But, it may be right to disregard the patient's wishes when what they ask for is unethical. I would not hasten my wife's death before what God chooses, even if my wife asks it. The precednece is GOD, then patient, then others.

22 posted on 03/31/2005 3:31:01 PM PST by Cboldt
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What is your evidence that Terri wanted to die? Hubby's say so, with no documentation?


24 posted on 03/31/2005 3:31:40 PM PST by Abcdefg
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To: OldFriend

Last time I checked it was Terri that was being starved to death, not you.

If you want to starve yourself to death, more power to you.

What you are saying is you knew full well the agony Terri would experience being starved to death and was still willing to inflict that fate on her.


40 posted on 03/31/2005 3:39:04 PM PST by sport
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To: OldFriend
We have decided that if we were in that condition we would not want to live. Is that so hard to understand?

Yes. It's hard to understand why you think that it was right to impose your decision about that, onto another person.

Who cares whether "you" would want to live in that condition? That was not the issue. Are you so solipsistic?

Is it the right of the Courts or a family member to undo that decision and do what THEY want.

Um, do you have some sort of mental block preventing you from seeing the obvious? It was the court and a family member (Michael Schiavo) who was imposing the decision onto Terri (who was unable to speak for herself) in the first place.

69 posted on 03/31/2005 3:53:55 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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