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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:36
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
You are the guys who want to starve her to death. |
Nobody wants her to starve to death. I'd be all in favor of administering a lethal dose of sedatives. But Florida isn't progressive enough to have an assisted suicide law. So it's the only opition for ending her condition relatively quickly.
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You think that's not suffering? You think two weeks of increasing pain before you die isn't an extended period? |
What's worse--2 weeks of starving (that can be mitigated by painkillers, btw), or 15+ years being a vegetable?
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Jesus, I support a person's right to die if their wishes are clear. |
If someone hasn't had the chance to articulate such wishes clearly, I don't see why they should be "punished" for it thusly. I can't think of any sane person who would want to exist under such conditions. The fact that, overwhelmingly, nobody wants to be like that is evidence enough for me that her wishes were very likely to be allowed to die.
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I might even support it if the only thing keeping them alive is machines and there's no hope for recovery. |
I fail to see any qualitative difference between the machine that is a feeding tube and, say, an iron lung. And the overwhelming expert medical opinion is that there is no hope for her recovery. I guess you would only accept a unanimous opinion? Good luck finding that.
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It's a little scary how willing some of you are to starve a helpless woman to death based on the questionable judgement of her erstwhile husband... |
Ah, the smearing of Michaeil Schiavo continues. Of course, the judgement of her husband isn't all there is here, as you also have the judgement of many, many experts in medicine. But good way to attack her husband. 
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Drake Tungsten
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Knee deep in alien womyn...
Oct 2001
time: 14:36
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He is paying for it, but it is with lawsuit money... I was partially right. Still, he could have kept the malpractice 1 million then turned over care to the parents. But instead he used it to pay the hospital bills. |
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(3) Given that the jury awarded $750,000 to be used in part for Terri's therapy, why hasn't Schiavo provided any rehabilitation for her since 1991?
When asked by King about the issue of rehab, Schiavo described some early efforts to help Terri, such as an experimental surgery in 1990. But he never identified when this rehab took place.
Which is an important point. The only efforts ever undertaken to improve Terri's condition took place in 1990 and 1991. They had ceased by the time of the malpractice trial in 1992 because her insurance coverage had run out. Indeed, the pressing need to restart therapy was an urgent part of the malpractice case. It could have--and should have--paid to restart the rehabilitation that had been abandoned due to lack of funds.
Once Terri's $750,000 was in the bank, however, Schiavo would not approve a single cent of it to be spent on rehabilitation. Not only that, but once the money was in the bank, Schiavo ordered a "do not resuscitate" order placed on Terri's chart so that if she had a cardiac event, the doctors would not attempt to save her. And within a few months of the money being deposited, Schiavo also refused to permit curative treatments, such as antibiotics for infections. If Terri had died during the early or mid-1990s, as Schiavo's orders were designed, he would have inherited somewhere around $700,000. |
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conte...03/306hhsrh.asp
And you people trust this guy?
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Sava
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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:36
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
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He is paying for it, but it is with lawsuit money... I was partially right. Still, he could have kept the malpractice 1 million then turned over care to the parents. But instead he used it to pay the hospital bills. |
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(3) Given that the jury awarded $750,000 to be used in part for Terri's therapy, why hasn't Schiavo provided any rehabilitation for her since 1991?
When asked by King about the issue of rehab, Schiavo described some early efforts to help Terri, such as an experimental surgery in 1990. But he never identified when this rehab took place.
Which is an important point. The only efforts ever undertaken to improve Terri's condition took place in 1990 and 1991. They had ceased by the time of the malpractice trial in 1992 because her insurance coverage had run out. Indeed, the pressing need to restart therapy was an urgent part of the malpractice case. It could have--and should have--paid to restart the rehabilitation that had been abandoned due to lack of funds.
Once Terri's $750,000 was in the bank, however, Schiavo would not approve a single cent of it to be spent on rehabilitation. Not only that, but once the money was in the bank, Schiavo ordered a "do not resuscitate" order placed on Terri's chart so that if she had a cardiac event, the doctors would not attempt to save her. And within a few months of the money being deposited, Schiavo also refused to permit curative treatments, such as antibiotics for infections. If Terri had died during the early or mid-1990s, as Schiavo's orders were designed, he would have inherited somewhere around $700,000. |
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conte...03/306hhsrh.asp
And you people trust this guy? |
that source is wrong... according to wikipedia, he stopped therapy in 1992... after 2 years of intense therapy, there was no chance in her condition.
I like your strategy Drake. You have no facts to present, so you try to assassinate the character of her loving and devoted husband.
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