Bread then, water today...
Posted on 03/14/2006 11:28:51 AM PST by KevinNuPac
Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify
Kevin Fobbs
March 13, 2006
Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life honoring Terri Schiavo with a day of remembrance challenges each and every one of us to stop for a moment and ask ourselves a question, do we respect ourselves, our families, our lives?
And if we are faced with the question of the possible certainty of death, does anyone truly know, or even have the faintest clue about, our wishes? That is the greatest good, the greatest legacy that Terri Schiavo's death and an annual "Terri's Day" can bring to our lives and to the celebration of the Culture of Life.
On March 18th, we as a nation will begin to grieve again, to reach into our hearts and feel with our collective national spirit what the Schindler family felt last year at this time as each moment since Terri was disconnected from the feeding lifeline, the moments crept by like hours and hours like days.
All of us have felt in some way that pain — even if it were only in the privacy of our loved one's home, hospital room, hospice or perhaps talking with an attorney and doctor attempting to make sense out of some fleeting comments made in a conversation perhaps voiced ten, twelve or even two decades earlier — not necessarily an expression of her true feeling about an end-of-life decision but merely an incidental musing in a long-forgotten side conversation.
For at least one million Americans, and quite possibly a whole lot more, this is an opportunity to voice an opinion through a pledge supporting a resolution in each state called "Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life." Each and every person who cares that your family, your spouse, your mother, your father, your sister or brother understands with clarity what you wish the end of life for you to be, with dignity and certainty should sign the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com and take the additional step to sign a Living Will — or as they call it at www.terrisfight.org, the Will to Live.
Some have asked why Americans should care about an annual Terri's Day. It is quite simple, we tend to keep turning the page on the Culture of Life because we feel it does not affect us. We tend to believe that seemingly universal belief that those who are handicapped, those who are not quite living a "perfect" life or by contemporary notion "ideal" then those lives are possibly disposable, marginal, not relevant, and part of the Culture of Death which embraces a "disposable society."
But life and our values for the Culture of Life are not disposable. Think about the young people today who would rather hurt themselves or even take their own lives rather than feel "imperfect" or the elderly person whose family is told by an insensitive health care professional while the stricken person struggles to cling to life, "she would be better off in another place," — just let her die, disconnect her from life, because her quality of life is not up to "contemporary standards. "
Why does celebrating the Culture of Life in Michigan become so essential for all of us in America? It is important for several reasons. Dr. Jack Kervorkian, also known as "Doctor Death" helped launch first in Michigan and then the nation the notion of the death culture. Secondly, and equally as important, at the May 12 event — just two days before Mother's Day — there will also be a "Mary's Moms" celebration of those women and mothers who have met challenges in standing up for some aspect of the Culture of Life.
This past weekend I sat at my cousin's funeral — or going home celebration, which more accurately describes it — thinking about the dearly departed and how she packed so much caring for others into her life even as she struggled with illness and advancing age. She was a wonderful woman who had lived through many, many challenges in her life, but in her 73 years she had met these challenges with dignity and had conveyed to her family when would be the right time to allow her to pass away.
Her daughter, who is a minister, spoke to the packed church about the times when, with all of her pain and then a stroke, the doctors had informed them that perhaps it was better to let her go. Yet that was three years ago that that occurred, and if the family had listened to the doctors and refused to see how she fought back and not only recovered but went back to volunteering at the church to feed and clothe the homeless. The medical professionals didn't care about an elderly lady who was on dialysis, but the family did and they knew better. Patricia lived three more years — years her extensive extended family considered "a gift from God."
So isn't part of the lesson of Terri's legacy and Terri's Day for families and loved ones to have a meaningful conversation with their family and to have the written document on hand as well that conveys the wishes clearly and concisely? You betcha.
As I sat in the church I thought of all of the families across the nation and the world who were sitting at their loved one's bedsides — or even standing outside of a hospital emergency room — overwhelmed with emotion, torn by what may be days of conflicting anguished decisions. I thought again of how out of death we may have the certainty of life. Terri's death reminded the nation that yes a state can and will starve you to death, and your family may be rendered helpless as you watch your loved one's precious life forces drain slowly away.
By signing the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com or going to www.terrisfight.org, you can learn about how to encourage your state legislature to establish March 31st as an official Terri's Day. Hold a Culture of Life Home Party or meet-and-greet to sign pledges, share ideas and support The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation as well as Culture of Life activities and events in your community or around the nation. Between now and March 31st you can make a dramatic difference for yourself, your family and for the nation. Stand up for the Culture of Life because one person, one life, one family can and does make a difference in America. Make the difference and be the difference today. America...The countdown for the Culture of Life has begun.
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Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the daily host of The Kevin Fobbs Show on News Talk WDTK - 1400 AM in Detroit. Listen to The Kevin Fobbs Show online at www.wdtkam.com daily 2-3 p.m., and call in toll-free nationwide to make your opinion count at 800-923-WDTK(9385) © Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060313
This is what happens when Godless people run the country.
I think most of them were slave labor. They determined the exact calorie consumption to make them last 6 months. All very professional and intellectual you know.
Excerpt from THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide © - by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton:
On 17 November 1942, the Bavarian Interior Ministry held a conference with directors from mental hospitals throughout that area. The state commissioner for health, Walter Schultze, asked the directors to provide a “special diet” (Sonderkost) for hopelessly ill patients. Because several doctors were hesitant about this idea it was suggested that a ministerial proclamation to that effect would be useful. Not at all hesitant was Dr. Pfannmüller, who “dramatically . . . told how he had once grabbed a slice of bread from a nurse who had wanted to give it to a patient.” (Pfannmüller had been involved in the decision to hold the 1942 conference.) Also involved was the director of the Kaufbeuren Asylum, Dr. Valentin Faltlhauser, who had directed the child “euthanasia” program there and had also served as a T4 expert since 1940. Faltlhauser passed around the Kaufbeuren menu: “totally fat-free,” it consisted of potatoes, yellow turnips and cabbage (usually green, occasionally red) cooked in water. 'The effect,” he claimed, “should be a slow death, which should ensue in about three months.”8
Bread then, water today...
What country was that photo taken in? I don't recognize that country. It's certainly the one I grew up in.
Michael outdid himself in that department by ordering doctors not to treat her for a urinary tract infection so that she could die in unspeakable pain.
Women love that, and he was determined to carry out her wishes, the big romantic lug.
I didn't know you were a Buddhist. ; )
Conservatives of an earlier era warned against socialized medicine in just those terms. What the government pays for, it controls. If you give it more power to do things for you, you are letting it do things to you. If we cut corners in life, if we won't pay our own way, if we put our burdens on other taxpayers, we inevitably end up slaves. Whoever pays our way owns us.
Likewise, conservatives once warned that government has no resources of its own. What it does for us, it must first take from us. When you file your income taxes, you are looking at freedom surrendered. We buy our own chains.
OF COURSE Medicare and Medicaid are a death sentence for those in greatest need for these patients are the greatest cost to the "system." Medical resources must be, and routinely are, rationed.
OF COURSE this system hardens most hearts to the plight of the elderly and the disabled and others with special needs. They are hogging resources meant for all of us. It's not fair. Pull their tubes. Make them die.
That is what socialized medicine really means.
Submit or die, slave.
ALBANY---Jay Wolfson, appointed guardian ad litem by the Florida Legislature in October 2003 in the guardianship case of brain injured Terri Schiavo, will speak at Albany Law School on April 19. He is scheduled to address the issues of using science, medicine and “good law” to decide "right to die" cases.
Wolfson, professor of Public Health and Medicine at the University of Southern Florida, will deliver the 2006 Edward Sobota Memorial Lecture, focusing on the alleged lessons learned from the Schiavo case.
Schiavo Guardian Ad Litem To Speak At Albany Law School
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One of the favorite terms of endearment employed by the left in pursuit of their return to power, is that their enemies constitute a "culture of corruption." You can hardly swing a cat around Democrats these days without getting an earful about Republican corruption. Indeed, if one navigates to the Democrats.org website, they can view a rather neat graphic of file folders tied together with string called "The Corruption Files."
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Press calls him mean, ruthless, abusive, divisive and, oh yes, a hypocrite because, "He attacked 'activist judges' while trying to force federal judges to take over the Terri Schiavo case." Will liberals never understand that activist judges are those who make law rather than adjudicate it. In the Schiavo case, those who are tasked with making law did just that, only to be rebuffed by precisely this sort of judiciary.
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Thread on bioethicks starring the ever so popular cast, posted by Jeremydmccan. Thanks Ohioan.
Terri Schiavo To, Again, Be Murdered At Upcoming U. Of Pennsylvania Symposium
Terri on the road to recovery before the malpractice case was won..
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But they were cruel in detail, didn't let a single mercy slip through, and stretched it long, thirteen days with not a single drop of water to touch her lips, not a drop. That takes resolve.
That sounds islamic
The trap was, Terri could have new neurological exams and swallowing tests IF they would agree to abide by the results and abandon all legal claims for her. Translation: we'll test her, she'll flunk, then you can just shut up when we kill her.
Does that seem cynical? But we have cold experience with "tests" for Terri. Dr. Ronald Cranford flunked her (and was the deciding vote for her death) even though, on camera, he was visibly surprised by her responsiveness and complimented her. Could she expect fair play this time? When did she ever get fair play?
And who went out on the lecture circuit soon after Terri's death with the same Dr. Cranford and the wife-killer himself? Why, it was Jay Wolfson.
They probably cursed every minute she hung on thinking how could she do such a callous thing to them. I mean they had lives to go on with you know.
That's standard leftist practice these days by juveniles of all ages. Amazon invites reviews. The kiddies think it's terribly clever to trash conservative books -- which, of course, they neither buy nor read.
A real review requires the reviewer both to read the book and to have more intelligence than the average brick.
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