Re: Re: An honest question
Posted by: jackray2 <jackray2@...>
like my wife, she made her wishes know, to her husband, that she did
not want to be kept alive that way. Her parents, because of their
beleifs, couldn't accept that and fought it. The Living Will and
Durable POA are great, but you have to use them. Teri hadn't.
At least that is what I have read and heard, from the radio station in
Pinella Co., FL to the New York Times, and various international ones.
Jack
On Apr 2, 2005 11:00 PM, Joseph K Revesz <joerevesz@juno.com> wrote:
> Jack writes:
>
> > I asked, on another list, was the use of 'Advanced Medicine'
> > inspired
> > by the Lord, to keep Teri alive for whatever His reasons were, or
> > by
> > satan to put her and the family through the hell we have been
> > reading
> > about?
>
> The part Satan had in this situation was in getting people to believe
> that food and water are "advanced medicine". This lady could have lived
> for a long time if she had been given what we give all babies and the
> infirm. No electronic gadgets or wonders of science. Just a plastic
> tube into her stomach because her "husband" would not allow anything more
> to be done, like a baby bottle that was used to feed her some years
> before.
>
> The "quality of life" argument has a slippery slope. According to many,
> Terrie was reacting to her environment. After she was deemed a
> "vegetable" by people with questionable motives (have you heard how many
> doctors and even the lawyer in the case are or were connected to the
> local Hemlock Society?) she became something less than human, thus easier
> to dispose of.
>
> I worked in a nursing home for six years as kitchen help and an orderly
> and I saw a lot of people relying on these feeding tubes. Not feeding
> these people would have been deemed murder. I wonder when the definition
> changed?
>
> Joe
>
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