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Duh! You THINK?!?
One can't blame them. When there are pro-euthanasia rumblings even from "conservatives" these days, the time is not very far off.
No kidding. That was the whole point.
Remember, if you are physically challenged, the democrat party and the judicial tyrants want you dead. Come to think about it, the battle over judges in Washington directly effects your life (literally).
If you are "disabled" and you want to live, VOTE REPUBLICAN!!
Stupid article. Anyone...disabled or not, should simply fill out a form designating their wishes to be artificially kept alive or to be left alone after such and such a procedure. This can be placed in the care of someone
in the family, a lawyer if you have one, or the nursing
home/hospital where you are receiving care.
This is all just HOOPLA to instill fear in the elderly
or those not capable of putting together a logical
train of thought. Further, anyone, regardless of age,
who has NOT completed such a form is taking a great risk.
I won't add "an idiot" since I know many people are already
getting over the hype instigated in the Schiavo case.
Put it this way: If you have accumulated valuables along
life's journey and you haven't made a statement about what you want done with them upon your demise, then you probably don't give a hoot about what they do with your body once it is no longer useful to you!
Ya know,
10 years ago, I was a huge fan of hospice. It was wonderful when many family members became terminally ill.
But one day, in my facility, I heard nurses grumbling about how our hospice wing was 'killing' people. These were good, caring, veteran RN's and I was stopped in my tracks! I learned then that often an elderly resident was put on hospice without a terminal dx. just a 'failure to thrive' dx or 'declining' in the chart.
Often, these folks were relatively alert, oriented...just becoming more difficult to care for--- feeding/eating often being a major 'problem'.
Then on day, the Dr. would prescribe Roxanol for 'pain' and they were out the door in days. Our joke became "If you are lying in a hospital, and hear they are putting you on Roxanol, LEAVE!"
That was years ago. Terri brought a lot of memories back.
Anyhow, I just started consulting in another LTCF, and just this week, I was reviewing a chart and yep...
She is "declining", she is old, fragile and not eating well, but no terminal dx. And I'll be darned...she started on Roxanol that morning because she 'ached'. When I go back next week, I don't expect to see her.
I actually get physically ill on the "old people are evil" or "Gimmee geezers" threads because that mindset makes the above perfectly OK. These are our future caregivers. No amount of LTC insurance will make them care or see your life as having value....cuz it doesn't have value now.
"Yes, your honor, Granny told us if she ever was in Persistent Vegetative State, that we were to pull the feedin' tube! BTW, can we get the will read early? I've got reservations for a trip around the world."............
The Culture of Death is winning many key battles these days. They are making steady progress on the euthanasia front. Killing those in a PVS, the old, and those who are not "living". Now we are on to killing those who simply don't want to live anymore. So much for "Never Again". If Hitler had only known. We have killed more of our own children than he could have dreamed of killing. May God forgive us.
What a tremendous post.
Thank you.
I don't imagine we'll start gassing invalids like unwanted puppies until The Evil plants her ample posterior in the Oval office chair.
Yet, we are seeing the total destruction of the Constitution, not just the rights of certain citizens.
As well they should feel threatened. The above attitude exhibited by so many is utterly appalling and frightening! And yes, there is a test for personhood, and for many, Terri failed that test.
The author makes many other salient points. Well done!
It will.
They no longer have to worry about "if".
Now they only have to worry about "when".
Excellent article.
Good grief. You people are mostly against high taxes and socialized medicine. Yet you want to waste millions (per case!) sustaining vegetative persons who are beyond hope. You also claim to cherish and welcome a wonderful afterlife, yet you are deathly worried you'll have to leave this one 5 minutes early.
Fundie logic, indeed.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Gotta ping out a few more articles before I worm my way into bed...
Good discussion on this thread.
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This article is right on !!!!!!!! Thanks.
They'd have to get past me first!!
She's definitely become a bold instrument of the Lord.
You only put animals out of their misery. People suffer and are enobled by it. We do not presume to know the will of God or what is going on inside a persons mind. That is why we do not put people to sleep like dogs or horses.
Why is it different now? It has to do with the same mentality that thinks a man can't keep it in his pants or be expected to use birth control. That we're nothing but animals and good only as far as our animal urges take us. And if we're nothing but animals, why not put us out of our misery when there's nothing more medically that can be done?
I heard a lot of talk about Terri's brain. Very little about her Soul.