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Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:34
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Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Feeding Tube
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I find euthanasia
disturbing...period. Even more so, when it's cases like this where the experts
"appear" to disagree.....
Euthanasia and abortion go hand in
hand.....I think anytime humans try to "play God" we're getting on very
dangerous moral ground. Granted emotions cloud the issue......understandably
so....but IMO both are very dangerous paths for us as a nation to
take....
Not wanting any heroic mesaures is
one thing, actively trying to starve someone to death or something is awhole
nother story..... terminal
or not. If their terminal, they'll die when it's their time...if they don't,
God has a reason. I can't help but think of all the cases of folks who woke up
years, and years after doctors said they would be a vegatible for the rest of
their lives. Thank God in those cases someone didn't decide it was more
merciful to kill them. Some of the same arguements against abortion, fit
euthanasia to a t....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:37
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Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Feeding Tube
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Some of the items in this article have been flatly
called untrue by his attorneys, some of it (such as him receiving the
medical trust) is not legal in FL. So you see part of the problem,
both sides have an axe to grind and the poor woman is caught right in the
middle.
I doubt very seriously after 13 years there is a
single penny of the medical money left, insurance quite assuredly ran out a
long time ago.
Further inconsistencies...Michael Schiavo has confined Terri to a nursing home
(currently, Terri is in a Hospice facility) where she is
'maintained.'
He did this all on his own? Without a
doctor's order or supervision? What about all of the doctors she has
had? Are they *all* forgetting their Hippocratic oath to collude with
the husband to get her money?
Then you have a parade of doctors that have studied
the case and testified under oath in several FL courts. Are all of
these doctors risking perjury to help him kill his wife?
I still don't like the idea of them removing the
feeding tube, and if the courts had ruled against him on *medical reasons
alone* I would not mind one bit. However, it weakens the next of kin
laws which are there for some very good reasons.
Are all the courts hoodwinked as well? If
they are this Michael guy must be one good salesman. FL's law says the
next of kin is the spouse. Feeding tubes are legally considered
"heroic measures" *ONLY* in a terminal case. What that means is
if the physicians didn't consider her terminal then the feeding tube would
not be considered life support.
I'm not saying he's the good guy in this, but I am
saying that the article here plays a little fast and loose with the
facts.
Charles
Mims
I find it very disturbing that
it could be called anything else, just reading those two articles. One by a
doctor, and the other talking about a person that smiles, laughs, and
cries..just to name a few. Unreal....
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