Brain dead people are sometimes kept "alive" artificially until their organs can be harvested for transplant.
At 03:47 PM 3/28/2005, Kate Hubin wrote:
Seriously, I think the "plant" comment referred to the fact that Teri is totally brain dead AND requires artificial support to keep her body alive, and not just that she requires artificial support to keep her body alive.
Lori did specify "I'm talking about those whose whole body and "mind" are dependent on umpteen hospital life-support machines."
I don't think Lori was saying, and I don't think anyone else would say, that you are like a plant in any way.
From: Jim Lubin [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:38 PM
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
Jim Lubin
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Bothell, WA, USA
http://makoa.org/jim
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