RE: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes

> Unless there is a whopping big insurance policy, which I have
> nowhere seen mentioned, his stand is penalizing him. There
> was recently an offer of $1,000,000 cash to turn her care
> over to the Schindlers.
>
> Have you noted that every arguer for feeding Terri tacitly
> assumes that she is alert enough to feel what they would feel
> if starving and dehydrated (or think they would feel)? Not
> one considers the nature of the PVS.

That is simply false, David. I have specifically given my wife
permission to pull a feeding tube out of me. So it is not fear of pain
on my part. My argument is about constitutional protections. Her
preferences are not in writing. The government has the duty to protect
life in the absence of that, IMO. The liberals used to have a saying
that a society would be judged by how they treated their most helpless
people. Today we abort babies by the millions and courts hold that
feeding tubes can be removed on the testimony basically of a husband.
If we or a court now holds that you are not mentally competent enough to
live, you get to die.

I know that there is a saying in the debate circles that if one has to
raise Hitler, you have lost. Well, I have already lost in the Schiavo
case so I am going to throw in the towel with a Hitler reference. It is
instructive that Germany in the eary 30s took a eugenics turn and
decided that killing imbeciles was a good thing to do. Scince a PVS is
clearly an imbecile, our society is doing something similar to what the
Germans thought OK in the early 30s. Hipp Hipp hooray for us. I, for
one, am saddened at the prospect

They all "know" that
> neurologists and judges are wrong. Indeed, I just heard
> someone asking why one of the Bushes doesn't break the law to
> rescue her. Also, I have seen none note that Terri was given
> aggressive therapy for five years without positive result? If
> immediate therapy was useless, why would therapy after
> fifteen years have a positive effect? Dave

I am also saddened that those who hold life as a precious gift are
mocked by you.
>
Received on Mon Mar 28 21:58:49 2005