At 10:35 PM 3/26/2005, Eric Cordian wrote:
That which we may do to ourselves, if we are functioning, exceeds that
which we may require others to do to us if we are not. I can deny myself
food, water, and air, for instance. I cannot instruct others to deny me
those things if I am rendered incapabl
"Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A vegetable Pope would basicly lock up the
> mechanisms of the Church.
Oh, come on... haven't you guys seen the Godfather III?
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Riad S. Wahby
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Major Variola (ret)
> It would be very cool karma if the Pope were to
> be vegetative but indefinately prolongable (thanks
> of course to the fruits of the scientific method
> which is the antiPope). One imagines this will
> eventually happen. Or are there rules to replace
> a useless Pope?
It would be interesting socially if the vegetable in question had fried
her brain with her choice of unlicensed
pharmaceuticals, instead of her choice of self-starvation (leading to
cardiac failure, leading to
joining the vegetable kingdom). Would Jeb be trying to adopt a
coke-stroke negro?
It wo
On 2005-03-26T22:35:23-0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
> Justin writes:
>
> > Artificially feeding her against her wishes and/or the wishes of her
> > husband (whose wishes have precedence over the wishes of her parents --
> > if you don't like that, get that law changed) is sick.
>
> I think we have
At 10:35 PM 3/26/2005, Eric Cordian wrote:
Justin writes:
> She is a corpse with a heartbeat.
They want her dead, but don't have the guts to just kill her,
so they're going to dehydrate her to death instead
and pretend it's "natural", because she can't feed herself.
It's a nasty way to go if you're
Justin writes:
> She is a corpse with a heartbeat.
According to a cast of characters which include a euthanasia proponent, a
lawyer at the forefront of dehydration advocacy for the brain-damaged, and
a doctor who thinks its morally acceptable to starve Alzheimer's patients
to death.
> Artific
On 2005-03-26T20:05:14-0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
> Justin writes:
>
> > If the judge's decision had been the opposite, there might be a bounty
> > on his head for that, too.
>
> Somehow letting someone who has lived 15 years with a significant brain
> injury live out the rest of their normal lif
Justin writes:
> If the judge's decision had been the opposite, there might be a bounty
> on his head for that, too.
Somehow letting someone who has lived 15 years with a significant brain
injury live out the rest of their normal life span just doesn't provoke
people the same way dehydrating an
On 2005-03-26T11:04:46-0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
> This just in from CNN:
>
> [FBI agents have arrested a North Carolina man on suspicion of soliciting
> offers over the Internet to kill Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer.
> Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview is accused of offering $250,000 for t
This just in from CNN:
[FBI agents have arrested a North Carolina man on suspicion of soliciting
offers over the Internet to kill Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer.
Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview is accused of offering $250,000 for the
killing of Schiavo and another $50,000 for the "the e
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