^ From today's Wash Post:

Michael and Terri Schiavo won a $700,000 malpractice lawsuit after her heart attack 15 years ago, but his lawyers say most of the money has been spent on health care and legal costs. Medicaid pays for her medication and Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., provides her care for free, the lawyers say.

CONTROVERSIAL CORNER!

 

It's truly amazing at all of the Executive and Legislator <hoopla> around this case. How can anyone maintain that it's not politically motivated and pandering to a certain religious element?

This is one of the few things in recent memory that moved me (over the weekend) to send an email to my two illustrious Senators.

 

Can you be more specific about these evil people who are starving our poor and taking their library books away?

Did you happen to see a demonstrator holding a sign that said "Feed Terry, NOT the poor!"?

 

I knew a lawyer a few years ago who was living with a constitutional law atty in tampa. She was working for Terri Schiavo's parents I believe.

There were lots of allegations being thrown around then including if she came out of it and talked he would go for attempted murder. This has been a vicious case before the courts for a long time.

I think the Republicans come out winners on this one. One can never say they don't care for the people. Talk about micro management. I also think the courts will agree with the Florida courts and it's all really a mute point.

The only comment I would like to make is that even though there is no mind there why kill the body by dehydration? Why not just a simple quick injection? It seems very strange.

fltsfshr

 

^ Because that is murder. The other isn't, according to what I have read.

 

^ But... what if I came upon a wounded person and stood there and did not call anyone or do anything and watched the person die (and it took a little while for that to happen)...Do you think I would be charged with something?? I think probably so.

 

So putting the metaphysical stuff aside. It's ok to let a body die by dehydration as the bodily functions shut down naturally as it can't feed itself?

Any other way would be murder? Thats kind of macabre isn't it?



fltsfshr

 

[QUOTE=uppitychick,Mar 21 2005, 05:42 PM] ^ But... what if I came upon a wounded person and stood there and did not call anyone or do anything and watched the person die (and it took a little while for that to happen)...Do you think I would be charged with something??

 

^ Yes, I have been involved in similar circumstances in my own family - fortunately, with the blessings, or at least not active opposition, of family members.

 

Those decisions are hard enough mentally, emotionally and morally without the active interference of others. That said, there is almost never a totally satisfying solution to these situations.