The lady in Georgia was air lifted to a hospitol away from the Hospice that she was being tortured at . According to the blabber on Terri’s site …she had a living will & and the “Grandarling” was having her “Schiavoed” anyway. Took a hell of a fight to get the poor woman out of there….AND …I saw a conversation about six men that are being “Schiavoed”…begging to live. Gotta see if it’s for real or not … more reason to believe it than not .

I’m just not going to go to the friggin Dr. anymore. UNLESS the Dr. will enter into a liability contract …. People need to MAKE them have to be accountable . We need to stop letting cry those “crocodile malpractice ins. tears”.

Preston…If I remember correctly, these boys had seen their dad go through hell and had made it clear to their mom they didn’t want to live like that. They had even tried to commit suicide by each OD’ing on tranquilizers by their own hand. Years later they could no longer do it themselves…mom walked in the nursing home one night and tears were rolling down the cheeks of one of the boys (they were like in their 40′s then) and she just lost it. Bear in mind she had cared for them herself for years…diapering, the whole nine yards. This was an inherited disease. There is one son left who so far doesn’t have the disease and he relayed the story…he lives in fear every day that he will get the disease.

The courts found that based on the history, they could identify the crime as assisted suicide instead of 1st degree murder.

Such a sad story.

There is no doubt that whatever happens as far as laws needs to be carefully thought out. I don’t know if it’s possible to cover every situation..probably not.. I don’t really think the congressmen who tried to enact the Schiavo law were motivated solely by politics…maybe some were granted..but not most. As I said before, Delay was not the right man to spearhead this legislation and the repubicans should have known that it would backfire on them.

It’s going to be real interesting to see the autopsy results.

It’s clear that there’s needs to be a national debate on end-of-life issues. I only hope that the laws are passed with a fair amount of debate- not just rushed through Congress when the nation feels sympathy for the next terminal patient.

You never said what the will of the sons would have been- which is the crucial difference. It seems to me that if they had a chronic dibilitating disease they had the opportunity to write a living will. I don’t believe the mother was right to shoot her sons if they did not express the desire to not live out their lives regardless of their pain- though I’m sympathetic to the mother’s plight.

But if her sons did not wish to live that way but were prohibited from killing themselves by the law- it seems horribly cruel to send this woman to prison.

That’s the thing that mystifies me about DeLay and company. Do they want to shift control of life and death matters from the spouse to the parents? What if next time it’s the parents who wish to end the patient’s suffering (as in this case you mention)? Or else does Congress want to mercifully make all of these decisions themselves and relieve us of the burden of deciding how we will spend our last days.

Clearly everyone felt sympathy for Terri Schiavo, Michael Schiavo, and the Schindlers but only Tom DeLay and Congress wanted to use this sympathy to take away our rights to end our lives with some dignity.

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Last night not a good sleep. Watched a program about this woman who shot her two sons who were totally incapacitated by Huntington’s Disease, a horrible and progressively worse adult neurological disease that affects the mind and the body to the point personality becomes hostile and they physically deteriorate to the point that they end up dying but it takes years and years as they lose control of everything. Her husband died of the same thing. For half this poor woman’s life she took care of these loved ones. I don’t know how she did it. It would have killed most people. At one point she and her sons made a suicide pact and OD’d on tranquilizers but it didn’t work. One day she walked into the nursing home where she had finally put them after years of caring for them by herself and shot and killed her sons. They charged her with 1st degree murder even though everybody, including the prosecutor felt tremendously sorry for her because it was obvious she couldn’t stand to see them suffer anymore. Well,her lawyer found that there was a loophole in the Georgia law (based on Kevorkian) that allowed the prosecutor to change the charge to assisted suicide which the prosecutor agreed to) and she ended up with 5 years instead of life.

Sooo my point is the law can be merciful and it can be just and that’s what should have happened in the case of Schiavo and I hope that some day the laws will be changed in all states to be merciful both to people like the Georgia woman and to those like Terri Schiavo.

dianne

NOW, of course, would argue against the notion that a man has the sole determination of his wife’s fate- but I don’t believe that was an issue in these cases.