The Town Hall Archives

Eugene Kendall™ · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject:

the topic location is kind of a toss up its a preyer request but its up for political and ive heard it said that all people are entitled to three basic rights wherever they are "which is life,liberty,and the pursuit of hapiness

dawningoftime · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:

But it's not that easy. Because there was no living will/no notorized statement the debate is centered around whether or not Terry wanted to live like this. When you get to the heart of the matter this is the main issue. Personally if I was in a vegitative state and there was no hope of me recovering...I wouldn't want to live like that.

Disco Dan · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject:

The majority of this thread is "debate" type.

Londoner · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:03 am Post subject:

Jonathan · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:22 am Post subject:

StupendousMan · Junior Member Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 105

Seems that the judge again denied the feeding tube. This is sad, if they're so intent on killing her have the judge go in and leathly inject her himself, don't let her starve to death.

Londoner · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

StupendousMan · Junior Member Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 105

Of course, she shouldn't be killed at all but if the "law" says she has to die do it in a more humane way, though I'll continue to pray that that dosen't happen.

Tianlet · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

I was told that they are required to tell the person that they are going to remove the feeding tube, and that when they told Terry that that was what they were going to do, she cried. That doesn't sound like a vegetative state to me at all. I also heard that she can smile and even chuckle. Quite frankly, I don't know what to think about the morality of letting her die, but I don't think that the courts should have anything to say about it. At this point it's almost as if they have taken over. If Michael Shiavo decides to stop arguing will they let it drop? Or will they continue to insist that she die?

I also don't think she should have to starve to death of all things. The media is appealing to people: "You wouldn't want to be kept alive artificially, would you?" But they're making it sound like life support and that's not what it is at all. If you remove someone's breathing support, they will die within a few minutes, but this could take as much as two weeks! That's completely inhumane.

Edit: Media--i.e. msn.com

GusDeHaan · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject:

Uh, "I heard" etc. Please, for the sake of promoting correct discussion based on facts, substanciate your claims with a third party source. Only in the best intrests of this discussion.