Re: [QUAD-L] Playing God

[Lori Michaelson]

That was worded poorly (my email below) and I know your situation, Jim, and I like and respect you.  You're not like a plant in that you can think and communicate and we KNOW (not guessing) your thoughts and desires because of that.   Mentally, Terri is really not living at all .  And the media prey upon emotions.  Note that all the internet and newspaper photos use the SAME one ... as though she's fixed on communicating 24/7 for all of us to see.  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/ts/012405terrischiavo&tmpl=sl&e=1   Let the poor woman RIP.   Or, if the family and religious folk PRAY HARD enough ... she'll pull through because God does answer prayer!  Unless Jesus lied in Luke Chapter 11.   "Ask, and it shall be given you"     A teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. He continues, “Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”   1 ‡ This passage suggests that God will give whatever is needed to those who have the faith to ask for it.     There you have it ... if the bible is the word of God... God will give whatever is prayed for.  If you have ENOUGH faith.... no problemo!   Lori   -------Original Message-------   From: Jim Lubin Date: 03/28/05 16:41:38 To: Lori Michaelson; Quad Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Playing God   I need a life-support machine to keep me alive, not umpteen, just one. If that one machine stops someone else needs to push air into my lungs or I just sit here and die. Someone needs to feed me and give me water or I will die since I am unable to feed myself. If I wasn't given choices by those caring for me then I would have to eat whatever and how little they decided to give me. So you think I'm just like a plant also? You think we should live or die by the laws of nature? Now you're going to offend the homosexuals. After all a community of same sex humans can't reproduce so they will die off soon enough. At 10:57 AM 3/28/2005, Lori Michaelson wrote:  I'm talking about those whose whole body and "mind" are dependent on umpteen hospital life-support machines.  THEY tell her how much to eat, WHAT to eat .... no decisions made on her part.   She's very much like a plant (like I said in another email).  She's watered, fed and google-eyed over.  That's for the OWNER'S benefit .... not the plant.  In nature plants live and die according to the laws of nature (or God if ya like).   Go out and save as many plants  as you can IN THE WHOLE WORLD today .... they don't really "want" to die do they?   Lori