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There'll be some on here who will immediately vent their anti-American spleen on this or any other topic that has an American connection.
Clearly your self-interest and wealth come before Constitutionally-mandated civic duty to hold our leaders accountable.
Just keep on spewing the bs, Richey Rich, one day even your precious gated communities wont save you and those elitists like you from the backlash to come.
Since the woman is in a permanent vegetative state that most doctors agree is irreversible, and since the husband is the next of in, and since she had expressed her wishes to be allowed to die with dignity such scenario ever came up, I think she should just be allowed to do so.
I am sorry for all concerned including the parents. But keeping her alive is wrong.
The most disturbing issue of all is the disgusting political manipulation by the Christian Right in America and the political system. There is no end of things that are wrong with the chimp re-writing the law overnight to please the wishes of the pro-life scumbag lobbyists.
And shit-stirring fundies like Mel Gibson who have played a part in this disgraceful episode should be nailed to a cross at the earliest convenience.
You seriously think that? Nah, you must be joking.
Not all doctors, where's there's life there's hope. Since he's run off with another woman I don't think he's totally unbiased. He probably finds it "inconvenient" having his wife still around. You may think so but you're not God, or are you arrogant enough to think you are?
Her parents want to keep her alive, and who are you to question that? You've got no say in this matter, thank God!
Absolute rubbish. There is no "political manipulation" as you so inaccurately call it. You've been reading too many left-wing articles written by people who have no understanding of the world today.
In this case, as indeed many others, there isn't.
Right because you know what's going through his mind. Clearly he's not allowed to rebuild his life while looking after the interests and wishes of his dead wife.
What an insulting and patronising attitude... Heavens forbid you find yourself in a similar situation, but if you did you might see things in a different way.
What on earth has a god to do with anything in this case?
And her husband, her next of kin, and incidentally carrying out the wishes of his wife, wants to end such appalling situation. Who are you, the fundies and Republican politicians to question that?
A bit naive aren't you?
hmmm..... I think we'd get along well. :thumb:
And after fifteen years I would say the hope of her waking up is small (though I've heard of cases where people have woken up from long-term comas).
And from what I've read no-one is going to kill her, they are simply going to withold treatment - which is a different thing altogether.
I feel sorry for her parents, but there seems no real point in artificially keeping her alive, when there is no evidence that she is going to recover. At some point its better to just let go...
They've removed her feeding tube.
Er... I never lived there. You might be confusing me with Clandestine.
sorry, I guess I did.
Who are you to decide her quality of life? Who are you to end her life without her explicit consent? Who are you to overrule her family's wishes?
Whilst I completely agree that people in her position should be allowed to die if that is what they so wish, I cannot help but point out the irony of your position. Yes, Bush and Congress should have no say in this very personal circumstance, but your intolerance of opinions opposite to your own is astounding.
It is her next of kin's wish to allow her to die with dignity.
Therefore, and tragic as it is for the rest of the woman's family, she is entitled to and should be allowed to die.
I feel it is perhaps you and those who campaign to keep her body alive who are acting arrogantly and ignoring the wishes of her husband, and more importantly the woman herself.
My usual caveat is that we don't know any details of the case so cannot honestly comment, but I think people in her position who are only kept alive by artificial means should not be kept alive against their wishes. But we as outsiders cannot possibly make that decision for anybody. Your assumption that disabled people have terrible quality of life really irritates me.
Better tell that to the mega-powerful Christian Right in America, the ultra right wing Republican government of George W. Bush, the lovely Mel Gibson and countless more.
Because the courts had already decided she should be allowed to die, and she would have finally done so if it weren't for the snowballing campaign mounted by some very hateful and intruding outsiders that culminated in the chimp cutting short his holiday and re-writing US law to please the hate mobs.
I've said on several occasions since the US election that the fundamentalist right in America, having been directly responsible for Bush's victory, was going to make him (and indeed the American nation) pay them back for the favour.
Here's the first installment.
I believe laws are needed, because relatives and NoKs don't always have the patient's best interests at heart (believe it or not) and medicine is developing all the time to turn formally terminal conditions into treatable or even curable ones.
I know you already agree with me that in this particular case, political intervention and the re-writing of a law overnight was deeply wrong and that the patient's wishes have been ignored, mostly because of political pressure from the hard right.
You're right, being pro-life as such is not wrong. It becomes wrong when you impose your beliefs on others, as the organised pro-life lobby in the US has very efficiently done here.
Actually - there is NO documentation that SHE wanted to die, this is only what her husband says. Typically when there is nothing written by the person - the hospital will try very hard to keep them alive.
Terry is not being kept artificially alive, she is breathing on her own, her heart is beating on it's own...... she has (or should I say "had") a feeding tube, that does not mean she is artificially being kept alive.
Ahhh..... so you are in the medical profession? Some say yes, some say no. I guess that's part of what the debate is all about.
It is a PEG tube..
*PEG percutaneous endoscopic gastrotomy i.e. a tube that enters the stomach through the skin on the abdomen*
I think God wants this woman to die, it's man who is keeping her alive.