Channel 2: Sharon a Vegetable, Will Move Home

Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews ^ | 4/21/6

[SmithL]

Channel 2 television reported Thursday evening that disabled Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is like a vegetable and soon will be moved to Tel HaShomer Hospital in Tel Aviv and then to his Negev Sycamore Ranch home.

The television news program also stated that doctors have admitted they gave Sharon an excessive does of blood thinner.

[SmithL]

A sad fate at the end of such a spectacular life.

[Zeroisanumber]

The television news program also stated that doctors have admitted they gave Sharon an excessive does of blood thinner.

Treating a massive stroke is tricky business, it's not surprising that the doctors screwed-up the dosage.

[justche]

doctors have admitted they gave Sharon an excessive does of blood thinner.
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There's not anyway that was done on purpose right?

[Jorge]

Sharon has achieved carrot-hood.

I hope this isn't supposed to be a joke.

[trubluolyguy]

Ok.

[pcottraux]

I'll bet liberals would want to pull the plug.

[Torie]

Is keeping Sharon alive at state expense at this juncture a wise use of taxpayer dollars?

[newzjunkey]

Had he been anyone else he would have been dead and buried months ago. He's been kept alive for political purposes. With the election over, he can now go home to die in peace.

[Iscool]

A sad fate at the end of such a spectacular life.

Only for the people that knew him...Worked out pretty good for Sharon...Lived a long life, died quickly with no pain, no suffering...We should all be so lucky...

[Alter Kaker]

Is keeping Sharon alive at state expense at this juncture a wise use of taxpayer dollars?

Oddly enough, in Israel we don't pay our taxes in dollars.

[Torie]

I stand corrected. :)

[newzjunkey]

If you're suggesting this was done to cause him further harm you're too much a conspiracy mind to be reached. The totality of efforts in treating Sharon well beyond those granted the average patient.

[stylin19a]

headline reads strange.
My first thought was ..."How is this possible ?"

[Last Dakotan]

Oddly enough, in Israel we don't pay our taxes in dollars.

According to the US Congress, they are accepted there however.

[justche]

It was a legitimate honest question...thanks for the polite answer.

[VeniVidiVici]

Oddly enough, in Israel we don't pay our taxes in dollars.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying it was *our* taxpayer dollars.

[sinkspur]

According to the US Congress, they are accepted there however.

We went to Israel for twelve days last month, and I never converted a single dollar to shekels.

Dollars and credit cards are taken everywhere.

[Slings and Arrows]

That's strange - when Olmert took over as acting PM I thought they said he was "temporarily disabled." Could that have been to avoid putting Netanyahu back in the PM's office? Just maybe?

[Lesforlife]

No human being is ever a vegetable.

We are made in the image of God and His glory is
reflected through us, despite our disabilities.

[Last Dakotan]

I was speaking in terms of US taxpayers dollars.

[sinkspur]

No human being is ever a vegetable.

The reference is to Sharon's physical body, not his soul. It is possible for our mortal coils to be completely non-responsive to stimuli.

[Cheburashka]

Is keeping Sharon alive at state expense at this juncture a wise use of taxpayer dollars?
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Short answer: yes.
When Sharon had his stroke and was hospitalized the Palestinians proclaimed that they would have a special celebratory missile shoot-off at Israeli targets when his death was announced.
No death, no shoot-off.
Wait six months, a year maybe the Palestinians lose interest and forget and Sharon can die quietly and in peace.
But for now the old general serves and protects his people even from his sick bed.

[nmh]

Atleast they won't be starving him to death like Terri S.

[M. Espinola]

After Olmert became Ariel's shadow everything changed and not for the better. It's such a shame after Ariel Sharon's many years of loyal service for Israel and her people.

TV Report: Doctors Admit Sharon Errors

('JERUSALEM - Doctors have admitted making a mistake when they treated then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with large doses of blood thinners after a mild stroke, according to a TV report broadcast Thursday. The hospital strongly denied the report.')

[SmithL]

As I understand it, he was declared "permanently disabled" on April 11th (100 days after being declared "temporarily disabled"). On that date, he was no longer PM.

[hershey]

Especially when Israel needs a strong leader.

[Constitution Day]

Atleast (sic) they won't be starving him to death like Terri S.

24 posts before someone brought up Terri Schiavo!

Y'all are slipping.

[MizRiz9]

I guess Terri Schiavo wasn't your "average" patient either.

[Rebelbase]

I think these folks would support a new cable/dish channel: Terri-24/7. Sort of a mix of court TV and the traditional religious stations along with a "Burn in Hell, Micheal" reality show.

[Constitution Day]

Yes! I love it.

And every new subscriber could get a Michael Schiavo voodoo doll.

[Rebelbase]

"Michael Schiavo voodoo doll"

With it's mouth sewn shut.

[Constitution Day]

That's a nice touch.

[MonroeDNA]

Keep him alive for 15 years!!!!!!