Given the pro-Schindler slant of Fox’s treatment of this story, it’s striking that only 40 percent take their side.
Those folks really are the absolute bottom-feeders of a message board, aren’t they?
I rather liked this Pitting.
Particularly this paragraph…now I have images of the OP licking their grout clean, like a cat.
[Monty Python and the Holy Grail] She feels better, she feels better![/Monty Python]
Yes, the quotes SHOULD have gone around the word “poll” when used in association with Fox News.
Is anyone else reminded of the movie Dogma?
One thing I think Terri would agree with - people coming in for surgery now are mostly showing up with Advanced Directive/Living Will in hand. Strictly anecdotal, of course, but my mother’s observation (prep/post nurse in surgery) is that very few patients are going under the knife without something, anything in their chart. Even though you really need a notarized document (your state/type of document may vary this), people are making sure that someone knows exactly what their wishes are. Looks like around here, no one wants to be the next Terri Schiavo.
No, they should have gone around the Fox “News” part.
You believe incorrectly. The only Fox poll was done three weeks ago, and indicates just 24% would reinsert the feeding tube.
All I know is that I would hate to have all this media attention around my death. I would rather have it be somekind of private moment with my family and not a media circus. I would hate the fact that my death is making progress for the news stations and politicians. I, personally, would be outraged.
How would you be outraged? You’d be dead.
I think I could stand it.
Saint, world-saver, and baseball star This Year’s Model dies at 145.
Also invented gasoline replacement, non-fattening full-taste ice cream
You poor, poor victim of Right Wing Christian propaganda. You actually believe both sides have equal amount of evidence. :wally
I just find it disgustingly convenient that the recent media blitz around Terri Schiavo, Michael Jackson, Barry Bonds, and Robert Blake have conveniently managed to crowd out more interesting – but less flashy – news articles off the media radar.
With reports the minority could climb to 49.9999999999…%.
I know specifically that Texas does not require the Advanced Directive to be notarized. I know of no state that does.
Here’s a sample based on Texas’ legal codes:
Directive to Physicians
Directive made this __th day of ____ in the year ____.
I,_____, being of sound mind, willfully and voluntarily make known my desire that my life shall not be artificially prolonged under the circumstances set forth in this directive.
[ol]
[li]If at any time I should have an incurable or irreversible condition caused by injury, disease, or illness certified to be a terminal condition by two physicians, and if the application of life-sustaining procedures would serve only to artificially postpone the moment of my death, and if my attending physician determines that my death is imminent or will result within a relatively short time without the application of life-sustaining procedures. I direct that those procedures be withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die naturally. [/li][li]In the absence of my ability to give directions regarding the use of those life-sustaining procedures, it is my intention that this directive be honored by my family and physicians as the final expression of my legal right to refuse medical or surgical treatment and accept the consequences form that refusal. [/li][li]If I have been diagnosed as pregnant and that diagnosis is known to my physician, this directive has no effect during my pregnancy. [/li][li]This directive is in effect until it is revoked. [/li][li]I understand the full import of this directive and I am emotionally and mentally competent to make this directive. [/li][li]I understand that I may revoke this directive as any time. [/li][li]I request that only comfort care be provided to me, no antibiotics, no artificial nutrition, no mechanical ventilation, and no hydration. It is my strong preference to be allowed to die outside of a care facility if possible, even if that preference is determined by my physician to shorten my period of dying. The only condition under which I desire these preferences for end of life care to be altered is in the case of possible organ and tissue donation. I request that any and all organs and tissue that may be salvaged be provided for transplant. My remains may then be cremated.[/ol][/li]
Signed ______________ in the City of ____________etc.
I am not a person designated by the declarant to make a treatment decision. I am not related to the declarant by blood or marriage. I would not be entitled to any portion of the declarant’s estate on the declarant’s death. I am not the attending physician of the declarant or an employee of the attending physician. I have no claim in against any portion of the declarant’s estate on the declarant’s death. Furthermore, if I am an employee of the health care facility in which the declarant is a patient, I am not involved in providing direct patient care to the declarant and am not an officer, director, partner, or business office employee of the heath care facility or of any parent organization of the health care facility.
Witness ______________
Witness ______________
Note the statement before the witness signatures. Texas law specifies that the first Witness for such a written directive must meet those requirements.
Don’t know about elsewhere, but the hospitals in my area have for years been routinely asking everyone being admitted – even for hangnail removal – if they have or would like to fill out an advanced care directive.
These jokes are really getting old. In fact, I smell a new pit thread brewing. Stay tuned.
Jokes?
Rather than start another thread-my 2 cents worth is that the parents are selfish deluded people who have only slightly more brain function than their daughter. What are they going to do when she dies, have her stuffed? Speaking as the parent of a little girl whom I love very much, were I in their place, there’s no way I’d have caused this spectacle macabre to endure anywhere near this long.
Y’know, they’re not that far from Disney World. Little over a hundred miles. Can you say “Animatronics[sup]TM[/sup]?”