Fair enough Sourdough...we'll just have to disagree. I just hope no one interferes with you and your wife's decisions with respect to your daughter's medical treatment. I also wish you all the best in that regard.
Hopefully, everyone will consider a living will after all this is said and done. Terri was in her mid-20s when this happened, and I doubt many kids that age think about these things. I know I didn't. If I wasn't so opposed to more government intervention and laws, I'd probably suggest that a living will should be a requirement upon reaching 18, or at the very least, when you get married. But that would probably create more problems...
I take it that you are against an investigation to make sure everything was properly done by everyone involved in this case. The legal aspect? 1 judge making "all" the decisions, if this judge had any character at all he would step aside and let someone come to a different, same conclusion that way everyone would be sure things were handled correctly. I think its time to elect judges, I think term limits is the way to go in any position in government. Should be better checks and balances or they just aren't working! I'm sure your comment about my family has to do something with another one of your hyperthetical situations. Hyperthetical situations are just that, a scenario that isn't true. What if? What if I'm scared to live anywhere because I'm scared of disasters. Are you a judge or lawyer, I bet a lawyer! I wouldn't have commented until you threw my daughter in the mix. I'm not perfect, I know there is a fine line here that I have to face. I don't understand the law that George Bush passed for instance in Texas. The story of that poor lady and her baby that died recently. I would have to know more about both sides of the issue to understand this. Its a fine line that everyone is facing here including doctors, nurses, lawyers. It just doesn't mean I agree with everything George Bush does cause I don't. What about the Democrats that voted along with the Republicans and support her chance to live. Go criticize them as well instead of going after just Republicans and people on the right. Just a little game people like to play
My comments were sincere. I want you to have complete say over your family's well-being. Sorry if you took them any other way. As for the rest, I'll just it let it go. I've made my opinions known on this subject.
No offense taken, best wishes I understood. Wasn't sure what this meant at the time..... Peace :thumb:
I'm not going to bother with a "Living Will" right now. I finally got my first regular "Will" ever about a year ago. Anyway, If anything happens to me, you guys have my permission to pull the plug or place a pillow on my face. However, don't remove my feeding tube and make me take 1-2 weeks to die. Kill me quickly.
Michael Shaivo's attorney looked at Terri and said she looks beautiful. He talked like she was doing really well. Does anyone really believe his statement earlier? Personnally I think that side is in a fantasy land. I don't understand some things, really wierd stuff going on in this case. The judge may be siding with the law for the most part but their are no morals when it comes to the law, there is the law and nothing else matters. Then again the hearsay issue used in a case muchless when the man has other interests. Doesn't look very good and none of it makes any sense. It seems to me if you can use hearsay in this case, you should be able to use it in any other? No common sense at all when it comes to strictly law! Its funny how much we know, How peaceful it is for someone to starve and dehydrate to death? We know everything don't we?
To whom it may concern: I'm angry that the religious right and their tools in Congress have tried to paint Michael Schiavo as a pariah, and refuse to admit that they are using her parents as their own personal pawns. I am angry that any family who has suffered through a personal and private pain such as this may find themselves judged and found lacking by their now wildly out of control extremist friends, neighbors and family. I'm angry that Tom DeLay is crouching behind Terri Schiavo, while preening about being her champion. I'm angry that he had the gall to say she was sent to the conservative movement by God to further their cause. I have no doubt God works in mysterious ways, but I've never read anywhere that devious ways are among them. I'm angry that Terri Schaivo got what was termed as the attempt at protection by our Congress, when in fact it appears she (and we) need protection FROM them instead. I'm angry that the true victims of the this adminstration cannot even rely on the impartiality of a twisted media who would rather play ratings than reporting. I'm angry that people like James Dobson, Ralph Reed, Jerry Falwell, Randall Terry and Pat Robertson have deluded people into thinking their brand of religion is going to save them or improve this country. And make that angrily disgusted that people continue to part with their hard earned money that has nothing to do with religion and has everything to do with power and bigotry. signed, an American citizen
Funny you should mention Tom Delay. DeLay's Own Tragic Crossroads Family of the lawmaker involved in the Schiavo case decided in '88 to let his comatose father die. Walter F. Roche Jr. and Sam Howe Verhovek, Los Angeles Times "...DeLay is among the strongest advocates of keeping the woman, who doctors say has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, connected to her feeding tube. DeLay has denounced Schiavo's husband, as well as judges, for committing what he calls "an act of barbarism" in removing the tube. In 1988, however, there was no such fiery rhetoric as the congressman quietly joined the sad family consensus to let his father die. "There was no point to even really talking about it," Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old widowed mother, recalled in an interview last week. "There was no way [Charles] wanted to live like that. Tom knew — we all knew — his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way." Doctors advised that he would "basically be a vegetable," said the congressman's aunt, JoAnne DeLay. When his father's kidneys failed, the DeLay family decided against connecting him to a dialysis machine. "Extraordinary measures to prolong life were not initiated," said his medical report, citing "agreement with the family's wishes." His bedside chart carried the instruction: "Do not resuscitate."... Read the Whole Story
