Terri Schiavo Case to be Decided soon...

Chris OConnor · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: Terri Schiavo Dies at 41

My real problem is not that she was allowed to die, but the manner in which it happened. A person can bomb a building in Oklahoma City and kill hundreds of innocent people, and we simply give them a lethal injection to terminate their life.

But not with Terri...we allowed her to die a painful horrible death by depriving her of food and water. And all to pretend as if we are facilitating a "natural" death. We ought to introduce lethal injections for humans so that terminally ill people can die quickly. I support the youth in Asia.

Chris

marti1900 · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:58 am Post subject: I Agree

You are right, Mr. P. Men have that same underlying fear. I believe this is what produced the ritualized taboos which even the most primitive societies have. It prevents the wholesale slaughter of our own (i.e. our own family, our own tribe, our own small community.) The THOU SHALT NOT KILL commandment did not arise out of thin air; it simply codified an ancient taboo that had pretty much always existed.

And yes, I agree, too, that many women felt that the husband's desire to move on with his life was unseemly. If he had agreed to let the parents care for their daughter, and gone for the divorce, there would have been no outcry. But because he wanted the wife DEAD...that was the deal killer. But again, I think this idea is simply a cover up for that basic fear.

I never got the impression from the many comments I read on the various MB's I visit, and articles I read, that it was a gender war kind of thing. It really was that he wanted her dead. I am sure if the situation were reversed, and it was the wife who wanted the husband dead, the outrage felt by women would have been the same. Just my opinion.

Marti in Mexico

Mr. Pessimistic · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: Re: I Agree

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It really was that he wanted her dead.

Why cannot people also understand that he may well have been carrying out her wishes!

Why?

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

marti1900 · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: I Agree

Because his underlying motives made a mockery of his statement that he was carrying out her wishes...wishes that no one else knew anything about. It certainly was coincidental that her wishes were not to be left on life support forever. Just a little too convenient.

You know the old saying: if it looks like an elephant, sounds like an elephant, and smells like an elephant, it's probably an elephant.

But since no one will ever know just what her wishes would have been, we have to give him the benefit of the doubt, don't we.

Marti in Mexico

tarav

I think that this would be a good topic to bring up to A. C. Grayling at the chat on Saturday(be there, or be square). It would be interesting to hear what he thinks about the Terri Schiavo controversy. On p 208 of What Is Good? Grayling discusses thanatology. Thanatology is the medical specialty of legal assisted suicide for sufferers who wish to die.


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