Lob a Chunk o' Feedback at Blog d'Elisson
Let's see...ruin the economy, expand government, stick it further and further into our private lives, dramatically decrease our civil liberties, mix your religeon into the government, cut spending on science so that America will continue our current fall in technological superiority, become the laughing stock of the international community. Wow. And in only four years! That IS an impressive achievement. But hey...at least we invaded Iraq!
I happened to be watching the CBS Evening News, when the reporter said that hundreds of people are taken off life support or have feeding tubes removed every day in this country. Which confirmed how this was merely a politically opportunistic stunt by the Republicans, which got more press than the Italians pulling out of Iraq!
This 'nuclear option' overreach, is starting to look like the Right's Waterloo, or better, the waning days of the McCarthy Hearings (too much?).
They're charging headlong, fueled by the sting of defeat on Social Security, with as faulty an argument.
Amen, Elisson.
Well I disagree with my brother and brother in-law.
Terry is not on a ventelator. She is not in a coma. She is awake , she sees, she moves, she is brain damaged, not a vegetable.
This woman's parent's have asked the husband to divorce Terrie and let them take responsiblity. A man offered him mega bucks to divorce her.
He declined.
In an interview with Terrie's brother it was brought out that Terry arrived at the hospital with multiple broken bones and bruises. The husband moved in with a woman 3 weeks after Terry arrived at the hospital.He has since been living with another woman and has fathered 2 children with her.Why won't he divorce her? Why does he want to make sure this woman dies?
Perhaps if Terry were to ever be able to comunicate, the truth of what happened to her might get out.
Now that makes since why the husband wants to pull the tubes.
Terry needs to be given a quick, painless death after years of suffering. Michael needs to be given a slow painful death after years of exploiting her. Her family needs beat with baseball bats for their shame ridden role in this sad affair. And don't even start me on politicians!!!! They all need the crap beat out of them, every single one, both sides of the aisle. Every elected office in the country!! Hey TCF, always glad to see a familiar call sign out and about.
A heartbeat does not a life make. And all the "opinions" by all of us oh so well informed folks is irrelevent. Whether you lob your opionion from Texas or from Washingtonj or from Florida, it's none of mine or Jeb Bush's business. The point is, some freaking bureacrat should not be involved in making this decision. Hey, NeoCons...you want small government? Then get it the HELL out of our personal lives and go back to giving Bill Gates another tax cut.
This intrusion by the Congress is almost enough to make me switch to the Democratic Party. The decision to remove the feeding tube is a deeply personal one that should not ever be decided by the courts or congress. As a health care provider, I have often worked with families having to make the same sort of decision, to stop all treatment that would extend a life that has no quality because of the medical condition. Comfort care is provided in order that the individual has a "good death". This is the basis of Hospice.
Though I can't and won't speak to the motivations of Mr. Schiavo, he and he alone should be making the decision. Any encroachment at this point by the congress will allow further such actions by other families and we will then need the permission of government to stop treatment in medically hopeless cases. This is not a good thing.
Good post...thoughtful comments. I ended up responding over on my blog. Not an easy situation. Very strong points on both sides.
"Terry is not on a ventelator. She is not in a coma. She is awake , she sees, she moves, she is brain damaged, not a vegetable.
This woman's parent's have asked the husband to divorce Terrie and let them take responsiblity. A man offered him mega bucks to divorce her.
He declined.
In an interview with Terrie's brother it was brought out that Terry arrived at the hospital with multiple broken bones and bruises. The husband moved in with a woman 3 weeks after Terry arrived at the hospital.He has since been living with another woman and has fathered 2 children with her.Why won't he divorce her? Why does he want to make sure this woman dies?
Perhaps if Terry were to ever be able to comunicate, the truth of what happened to her might get out.
Now that makes since why the husband wants to pull the tubes."
the man speaks the truth.
this isn't a conservative thing or a liberal thing...this is a matter of a lying sack of shit of a husband who wants to finish off what he started...
I find it interesting that someone who signs a comment "go to hell" doesn't have the balls to leave his/her own email address. I pray I never have to deal with this issue. It is a complicated and private matter. As the wife of Elisson and the sister of Morris William and bro-in-law d'Elisson should I have to make decisions pertaining to feeding tubes for any of them, I know what their wishes would be. Those wishes are at opoosite ends of the spectrum, and it would be our right as family to carry out and make those decisions—not the government.
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