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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (75403)	12/3/2006 11:16:07 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Duh! If she was already dead, then what were you morons fighting for?!

To: steve harris who wrote (75403)	12/3/2006 5:14:59 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 93284

Now that she's died twice you keep propping her up for a third life. She's gone now. And in her wake we've seen some of the silliest behavior ever by Republicans...waking up in the middle of the night and heading to Washington like zombies to cast the votes. It's sad, because Teri was brain dead. Her body was still going through the motions, but she had nothing else. I understand her husband had the burden and cost of keeping her alive and postponing the inevitable by perhaps years and thousands of dollars. The law is the way it is because it honors the family and the wishes of the patient. Then I also see that the parents of Teri still held out hope for a miracle. I believe they would have been willing custodians of Teri. Now as I understand it, Teri made her wishes known to her husband that if she ever fell into a vegetative state that she wished to be let go. Her husband honored her wishes. But I also believe when you have willing custodians that the law should allow for the transfer of custodial care to that party when all parties agree. I believe that Teri's parents had the resources to continue the care. In this case, Teri's husband stated that he was following Teri's wishes. This is when the congress and the president stepped in. I believe that the husband should have transferred the custodial care to the parents, even if it went against what he believed Teri's wishes were. Teri was not suffering, and the suffering that the parents were going through deserved some consideration. A difficult case indeed. Whose wishes should be followed? We got our answer...the wishes of Frist, Delay and the republicans to make political hay won out over all the others. It's the first time we ever saw the republicans make their way to Washington in the middle of the night for a vote. They put politics ahead of the wishes of a family in deep private pain, and took advantage of their situation for perceived political gain. Shame on them.