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To: JDN who wrote (676959)	3/26/2005 9:10:18 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

JDN, are you suggesting it would be more humane to give Terri a lethal injection? That is what they would do in the Netherlands.

To: JDN who wrote (676959)	3/26/2005 11:14:30 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Agree 100%....Even if Terri's life is "meaningless" to her and all these good hearted folks that find this ending fitting, her life still has value to her parents and others. What passes for humane treatment at life's end needs much discussion in this country. Even vermin caught in a live trap deserve better treatment than to be starved to death.

To: JDN who wrote (676959)	3/27/2005 12:06:19 AM
From: SirVinny	Respond to of 769670

the evidence that THIS IS WHAT SHE WANTED is very slim in my view. When I was in my teens I remember telling friends that I didn't want to live past forty years old. I thought anyone older than forty was a dinosaur waiting to die. Now that I'm forty I'm scared to fall asleep thinking those old friends might pull the plug. The point being that during the course of a lifetime we saying many things which taken out of context don't really indicate our true intentions. How can a judge allow the taking of a life based on such statements?

To: JDN who wrote (676959)	3/27/2005 9:28:47 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

"My wife used to work in a Cancer ward and almost EVERY NIGHT she came home in TEARS." It's no fun in a pediatric ICU. The plug gets pulled on kids all the time, whether they want to die or not, so maybe we'll be seeing more of the christian right sticking their noses in other parents decisions soon because what happens in pediatric hospitals is way more dramatic than Schiavo's situation. I'll give you one example, and there are thousands... A six year old male child is admitted following a a car accident. The child can see through its eyes, but can't blink (the eyes have to propped open). Brain activity is such that doctors know the child is completely cognizant, in fact, yes and no signals can be deciphered. The child cannot breath on its own, needs to be tube fed, the parents decide they do not want their child to grow up under these conditions.... They pull the plug, but nobody asks the kid if he wants to live. The Shiavo situation is all political and religious right hay making, imo. There's more plug pulling going on than people realize.