There is NO parallel between Germany in the 40's and Terry Shiavo.
I beg to differ, Germany didn't start outright killing the unfit just because they said so, they took baby steps first to condition the minds of the people that calling someone a brain damaged person who is obviously aware of her surroundings (if you had seen the videos of her like I have) who can communicate in her own way, although different than our own, she isn't entirely a "vegetable" as they would like you to believe.
Terry's life is still full of laughter and full of spirit, I hardly call her a vegetable. When she sees her parents, she smiles with joy that they are there seeing her. Which tells me she's still a human being and not a vegetable.
As I said, Germany took time to condition the minds that it is morally acceptable to "mercy" killing them because they are considered to be no longer productive in a civilized society. Which is what America is doing now. Baby steps, my friends.
The people in concentration camps were there against their will.
So is Terri. All they have is her husband's word. There is nothing is writing that Terri expressed her desire to die if she became what she is now. Basically she's is being put to death all because of "assumption", not on the basis of fact, such as a written word expressing her personal desire of what she wants, in which case, there is none. So when did society decided for us what it is that we want and what we don't want if we are unable to communicate it ourselves?
Terry told 3 people should wouldn't want to be hooked up to machines or tubes. Doctors keep stating this is a form of "life support" whether you are administering oxygen or food, it's still a tube put in during surgery to sustain the life you can't support on your own. I have stated I wouldn't want it, why can't everyone believe her husband and her 2 friends who remember she said she WOULDN'T WANT IT? It's about HER CHOICE, not ours.
A nurse testified that her husband wants her dead and often expressed "When is that bitch gonna die?", that tells me alot there. Plus Terri inherited a large sum of money from a settlement. So there's motive from the husband for wanting her dead. Now, tell me why didn't the husband mention her so call desires long before the monetary settlement took place??? There was none until after the fact. Which raises questions about his motive.
Having 3 people verbally say she doesn't want to be kept alive if she ever came to the condition that she is in. That's not sufficient enough means to have her killed. There was no written expression and signed by Terri that it is what she wants. So, in this case, a verbal word is far more important than what should be a written word by Terri herself. An assumption is more important than knowing what Terri really wants. Here lies the danger.
The doctor had an argument with my sister the morning before my mother died in Nov 28th, 1993, he argued about my mother's age (she was 67) and the blood transfusion that she was receiving was a waste of resource. When did a doctor decide (or when did doctors was given the right to decide) who lives and who dies? After the argument, my sister left, about a couple of hours later, my mother died. We'll never know for certain if the doctor actually allowed her to die or my mother died by natural causes. Which still leaves me in anger wondering what happened on that day.
The problem is, if Terri dies, this can pave the way for doctors to be given more rights, against the wishes of the patient, the parents or guardians, to pull the plug on those they personally deem "unfit" to live, or for economic reasons, if you have no insurance and cannot pay, they can pull the plug on you. The then Governor George Bush signed a bill in Texas allowing doctors to do just that if you have by no means to pay the medical bills long before he became President. His reason for signing a bill to save Terri held a double standard.
I am deaf and also I have no health insurance, if I were to have suffered an accident and upon discovery I have no means to pay the massive medical bill, should the doctor have the right to pull the plug on me? Or moreso, I want to live, no matter what state that I am in and yet have no written will expressing my desire to be kept alive, should the doctor have the right to assume I want to be dead and pull the plug on me? How about when I am old?
People are given more rights to decide my fate rather than my right to decide my own and that my friends is downright scary.
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