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- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -0/+5I can't argue with that. I believe if a choice is to be made, full disclosure of options must be available.
- blessedwith6, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4To those who have no faith, I can see where euthanasia would seem like a good idea. If there is no soul to worry about, no eternal destination, then lying in a bed without usefulness to others or without the ability to care for oneself would seem pointless.
Those with faith know that there is never an empty shell lying there when life is still in the body. We must allow for God to prepare in the quiet mystery of the disabled's soul the moment when they will meet Him and be judged for all eternity. There is much happening between that person and God that we will never know nor could ever fully understand. But to arbitrarily take a person's life before God decide's they are ready could have infinite affects on that soul. People with faith understand this (to some extent) and those without faith could never comprehend that such mysteries exist.
As I watched my sister lay dying from cancer, I saw her suffer and it caused me suffering too. But we respected the mystery of death and grace and allowed God to take her when she was ready to meet Him. I am certain that not one moment of her last days was lived in vain. - prolifemama, on 03/06/2008, -2/+6Thank God for the Schindler's faith, inspiration and perseverance. They stand in the breach, and Terri's helping them to save others from her unspeakable fate. God bless them!
- nancyu, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3I can't tell you how sorry I am for you. Just last night I attended the funeral of my 35 year old niece, Angela who died from cancer. When Angela was 2 years old she fell into a swimming pool and nearly drowned. The accident left her severely brain damaged and for some time she relied upon life support (an empty shell?) Some thought it would be better if she had died then. But 32 years later we see what a tragedy that would have been. Angela was permanently "disabled" but she recovered enough to thoroughly enjoy her life even more so than most people I know. Every time I saw her she was laughing and happy. She loved it when people would sing to her. I wish you could have met her for 5 minutes you would understand what I'm trying to tell you with inadequate words. Everyone who met Angela LOVED her immediately. I hope you wouldn't give up so easily on your own children. Every second of life is so precious, every single breath. Just because you see an empty shell doesn't mean that that's all there is.
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4How about I give you the finger and you can go about your merry ***** way.
- KCLorelei39, on 03/06/2008, -2/+5Glad to see they are still standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. I believe my brother-in-law was euthanized several years ago.... the doctors said he had little chance of recovery from a very sudden mystery illness, at age 46. He was in fine health one day, then he was in the hospital the next, on a respirator, though the drs never gave much of a diagnosis, and less than 2 weeks later, he agreed to be taken off of the respirator and they gave him injections to basically put him to sleep like a dog within minutes. I have long wondered if this teaching hospital, with a large percentage of welfare recipients as patients (and the same hospital that performed my abortion) viewed this black man as not worth saving. My sister-in-law was devastated, and I never had the heart to share my suspicions with her. I forget the name of the diagnosis they finally decided upon, but it was something that he had good odds of recovering from, with possibly a lung transplant (which I knew from information I researched while he was still alive). The fact that this hospital had no problem with taking life via abortion, made me wonder if they simply wrote off his life, as not worth saving.
- inactive, on 03/09/2008, -0/+2I'll just have to give you the written version of what I give in response to *the finger*. I sincerely hope God blesses you, and you can see the errors of the behavior you propose.
And thanks, I will be merry (or joyful) as I shake the dust from my feet. - KCLorelei39, on 03/07/2008, -2/+4they didn't give him all the available information, so that he could make a fully informed decision. They were surprised he came out of their medically induced coma, at all. You just had to have been there, I suppose.
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -2/+3Sorry for your loss, but if he agreed to euthanasia, that is his wish. You have the right to disagree with him, but no right to keep him alive beyond the hope of a cure.
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -2/+3If you can prove me wrong... go right ahead and try.
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -4/+4ElWizardo! Please give ME durable power of attorney over you. I'd be happy to pull your plug for you. (I'm just SO not selfish that way)
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -5/+4No good parent should wish their child to live that way. It is beyond selfish. My sister, myself and my wife have an agreement, which is in our Living Will, that we would not want to live like that and to keep our mother out of the decision making. My mother is so afraid of one of her children dying, and has made it more than clear, that she would keep us alive if we were just a charred head.
My wife and I love our children beyond scope, but there may come a time when what we see on a bed, is not our child, but an empty shell. I will not sully their image with a vague semblance.
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