Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:01:20 -0500, HKrause
wrote:


It was her wish to die.


Not legally. There is no final legally binding document indicating
that was her wish. In fact, even if there was, she could have, at any
point, said to somebody that she wished for extraordinary measures and
you would have the same situation you have now.


It also is a matter of spousal perogative.


Sort of actually, but I won't argue the merits of that because it's
much to complicated for the sake of this argument..

More important though is that Ms. Schiavo has not, nor is, having her
interests protected by her own separate attorney. It would seem to me
that having her own attorney in this situation would speed things up
considerably.

I believe that at some point she had a court appointed attorney

Also, note that Ms. Schiavo's husband initiated all this long after
her initial treatment with a feeding tube. There is a rather large
settlement, he suddenly remembers about her wanting to die. It would
seem to me that if she had said to him about her desire to pass over,
he wouldn't have done the feeding tube bit to begin with.

She was sent to California for treatment, upon return several other
treatments were attempted. The husband gave up roughly 1 year after it
became apparent nothing else going to help. I SUSPECT that during that
year much agonized discussion between the husband and parents.

See
http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html
for a good unbiased summary of the case


I still am uncomfortable about the fact that she does not have her own
representation.

I believe that at some point she had a court appointed attorney



The right wing is, as usual, pandering to rile up its simple-minded masses.


No, Harry, they aren't. They are reacting to their constituencies
much like their Democrat brethren - like me in fact. I am represented
by Democrats and I made my thought known to them on this subject. Are
you going to call me simple?

I don't know if any of you have ever experienced something called
sleep paralysis, but it's a condition in which the mind wakes up, but
the body is still asleep. It's both fascinating, awesome and very
scary at the same time. You have no mouth and you must scream - if
only to wake yourself up.

I would hate to think that there is a mind in there trying to scream.

For me, I would error on the side of hope and life.

That's what bush SAID, but read the following

BUSH SIGNED LAW ALLOWING HOSPITALS TO DISCONTINUE LIFE SUPPORT: In a
statement released early this morning, President Bush said he will
"continue to stand on the side of those defending life for all
Americans
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20050321.html) ." But
the facts make it hard to believe that Bush is standing on principle. In
1999, then Gov. Bush signed a law that " allows hospitals [to]
discontinue life sustaining care
(http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/3084934) , even
if patient family members disagree." Just days ago the law permitted
Texas Children's Hospital to remove the breathing tube from a
6-month-old boy named Sun Hudson. The law may soon be used to remove
life support (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7201470/) from Spiro
Nikolouzos, a 68-year-old man. Bush has not commented on either case.

Later,

Tom