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1. If I'm ever in the state she's in, unplug me. I'll make it possible by signing the right stuff in advance. Would that she had done so. But, if my family would somehow derive strength, or hope, or joy by keeping me plugged in, fine. Like I'd know about it, anyway.
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She isn't "brain dead" as I would consider it. Which makes this the hard case. And making it harder is that this isn't the simple matter of taking her off life support. It's starving her to death.
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2. In the absence of that step, I am amazed - befuddled - by learning, once again, that the fastest way to be demonized here and in our society is to interfere with people's perception of their right (right?) to kill those whom they deem it correct to kill. Nothing divides our society as violently. The people here who come out stridently in defense of their moral certainty of the correctness of killing certain groups of other people - people who are, in other respects, generally thoughtful, gentle-seeming people - well, their resoluteness and drive on the issue are scary.
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And the inconsistency of everyone involved is quite interesting. Some of the most vehemently ant-death penalty people I know see nothing wrong with the slow, agonizing death of Terry. I, on the other hand, see the exact opposite.
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3. If TS truly is an amoeba
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I've met Tyrone. Despite his leanings, he's really not all that bad.
Oh...you meant...nevermind
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- if there's nothing there - and this is a necessary precondition to those calling stridently for her death - what's the harm in humoring her parents, and just handing her over to them, at their expense? Someone here said "dignity", but I suspect they meant their own, as I can't see how killing a life can give that life dignity, while I can see how it might make it easier to argue that such a life is undeserving. Once they're dead, how much defense can they deserve, after all?
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If the parties that be really believed in letting her die with dignity, they wouldn't torture her by starving her for 2 weeks. Give her the needle
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4. A strong urge to fight allowing her parents to simply take her away is morbid, and bespeaks either an intensely strong ego that cannot let someone else have their way, or an intensely weak ego that couldn't stand for not getting their own. Why not just stay out of it, and let a parent who is concerned and maybe hopeful do what they can? In the face of a choice of "let her live, on our dime", and "kill her now - I'm sure that's what she wants", why would we ever not simply err on the side of not killing someone? And why do otherwise reasonable people feel so strongly the other way?
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All the more so when the husband and his GF have a potential financial benefit from seeing her dead.
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I truly don't get this one. Not Bob wants her dead. Ty wants her dead. RT wants her dead. They ridicule people who don't. From where do they derive a moral sanction to make and impose this judgment? Is it merely consistent with their longstanding fight in favor of capital punishment?
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This one has everyone on the odd side of the aisle.
Except for Democrats up for re-election. I'm guessing not a one will want to say they voted against Terri's right to live - if in fact they let her die.
