I was thinking it sounds a little like the adults always did in the Charlie Brown TV specials.
It keeps making me think of Lassie.
“What’s that Terri, you want to live? And a boy’s fallen down the old well?”
We had a very lively Easter-Dinner conversation at my mother’s house yesterday (my siblings, our spouses, and assorted grandchildren) about this very subject. It ended with a rousing game of, “Who’s Going to Pull Whose Plug?”
Sick, maybe, but at least we all know that NONE of us want to be in Terri Schiavo’s condition.
Then my husband and I came home, and his father and sister came over with Easter treats for our kids. My FIL (uneducated, and willfully ignorant) was appalled that they’re letting that poor woman just “starve to death” when she’s clearly been saying all along that she wants to live. Of course it’s the fault of her “cheating husband,” who “beat her into the coma in the first place,” and stands to inherit “millions and millions” when she dies. :rolleyes:
God save me from the morons. It wasn’t even worth arguing about.
Did everyone catch Terry’s brother trying to calm the crowd down, asking them not to get themselves arrested, and the protesters started arguing with him?
He seemed genuinely confused that they did not just accept what he was asking of them. Duh! These are people who feel they should get involved in Terry’s personal request to die, why would they honor your request to shut up?
Looks like the nuts have been replaced by the super-nuts on the picket lines
My god, this is almost the same conversation I had in my class on Saturday. This is supposed to be a class full of grad students, but the ingnorance was astounding!
One tearful, middle-aged woman said “Oh they’re killing her! It’s like an execution! When they took the tube out, she screamed, cried, and begged them not to kill her, but they did it anyway.”
Christ on melba toast.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, because the courts have decided it’s okay to off people who have speech impediments…
It’th dethpicable.
These are the same kind of people who lap up glurge like it’s sweet cream. This whole Schiavo thing has been a near-orgasmic experience for them…glurge in real life!! “She screamed and cried and told them she wanted to live!” Because there were so many camcorders in the room when they did it and they saw documentation of this, right?
Vegetable season!
Coma season!
Vegetable season!
Coma season!
Coma season!
Vegetable season!
pause
yoink
die
The trickiest part of the Sorceror’s Apprentice spell is always getting them to stop.
Exactly. As they say in umpty-billion medieval grimoires, “Do not summon what you cannot put down”.
Or, as they say in one of the umpty-billion Garfield collections, “Never eat anything bigger than your head”.
Either one, really…
This is the best argument so far - the fact that Terri isn’t dead yet proves that she wants to be kept alive!
Enjoy!
Heck, that’s nothing. Mahoney says it’s proof she wants to testify to congress. I myself think she’s holding out to see if Anthony Fedorov becomes her next American Idol.
Ooh…dubiquotes! Funny how these are the same people who cheerfully use that construction to refer to gay men married to their partners in Massachusetts. Good defense of marriage there, guys!
And can someone explain to me how a husband whose wife has been unresponsive and basically brain-dead for 15 years can NOT be “estranged”? They throw it in their just to delegitimize his interest in her wishes.
I see the Religious Right has all the nutjobs mobilized now, including AMBASSADOR Alan Keyes.
He’s not estranged at all; he’s not indifferent to her. They are using the word completely incorrectly. Big surprise there.
Hey, we’ve finally learned what will get CNN off Schiavo. A massive earthquake. Guess the whole last week was just a slow news week because enough people weren’t dying.
There’s nothing that says Catholics cannot be cremated. It doesn’t preclude her from having a Catholic funeral-or even a Catholic burial, for that matter.
BTW, anyone else thinks that Terri’s brother looks like Jerry Seinfeld?
B. Kliban said it, actually, though the artist is also well known for cat cartoons.
Matt Conigliaro, a Florida attorney, has an excellent blog named abstract appeal. He has been following this case for several years and contained in his blog is perhaps the most complete and unbiased accounting of the whole Terri Schiavo ordeal.
I worked as a Hospice nurse for over 10 years and can tell you that withwolding food and water is common practice and considered a comfort measure.
I am appalled by the actions of the Schindler’s and sincerely think thing they need substantial psychiatric help. I don’t think I have ever seen a more deep seated case of denial.
I agree completely with Michael Schiavo’s actions.