Has the Schiavo case Become a Political Football?

Not only that, Foxy, but many sane people every day of the year put a dynamite stick in their mouths and blow themselves to kingdom come very peacefully. It's actually a very beautiful form of death. I find it abhorrent that you would stop these people from blowing their heads to the consistency of apple sauce. For shame.

Brandon9000 wrote:

Not only that, Foxy, but many sane people every day of the year put a dynamite stick in their mouths and blow themselves to kingdom come very peacefully. It's actually a very beautiful form of death. I find it abhorrent that you would stop these people from blowing their heads to the consistency of apple sauce. For shame.

Scoff if you like, but my point remains valid. Guess you couldn't come up with something better to refute it....

Terri did not choose to refuse nutrition and water. It was chosen for her. That's the difference.

DrewDad wrote:

Brandon9000 wrote:

Not only that, Foxy, but many sane people every day of the year put a dynamite stick in their mouths and blow themselves to kingdom come very peacefully. It's actually a very beautiful form of death. I find it abhorrent that you would stop these people from blowing their heads to the consistency of apple sauce. For shame.

Scoff if you like, but my point remains valid. Guess you couldn't come up with something better to refute it....

I think I'll scoff, thanks.

Drew, are we still in Kansas?

Not only that, Foxy, but many sane people every day of the year put a dynamite stick in their mouths and blow themselves to kingdom come very peacefully. It's actually a very beautiful form of death. I find it abhorrent that you would stop these people from blowing their heads to the consistency of apple sauce. For shame.

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Not only that, Foxy, but many sane people every day of the year put a dynamite stick in their mouths and blow themselves to kingdom come very peacefully. It's actually a very beautiful form of death. I find it abhorrent that you would stop these people from blowing their heads to the consistency of apple sauce. For shame.

Really? I haven't heard of anyone doing this. Can you provide a link, or are you just being facetious?

Though it would be a rather quick way to go. I assume that you have some sort of problem with people doing this?

Cycloptichorn

Drew, are we still in Kansas?

Gelisgesti wrote:

Foxfyre wrote:

So you won't answer the question Geli? You can't answer it so you resort back to insult instead of civil discourse?

Air is different from hydration or nutrition so far as being a life sustaining necessity or it isn't. If you can withhold nutrition and hydration, why not air which would be so much more humane?

Insult .... insult!!!! I try to help and you call it INSULT!!!
Your questions are insults. Why don't you read what you write if you won't read others.

You truly beleive that it would less painful ..... to die of suffocation ... struggling and gasping for breath than to slip into a coma from lack of nutrition.

Why do I try????

I missed something ... what would be struggling and gasping for breath? The shell?

Terri did not choose to refuse nutrition and water. It was chosen for her. That's the difference.

I'm not talking about Terri. I'm talking about your vow to work to see that no one is ever dehydrated to death again.

If you're saying now that you want to work on clarifying the law, then go for it. But that's different from what you said earlier in the thread.

Ticomaya wrote:

Gelisgesti wrote:

Foxfyre wrote:

So you won't answer the question Geli? You can't answer it so you resort back to insult instead of civil discourse?

Air is different from hydration or nutrition so far as being a life sustaining necessity or it isn't. If you can withhold nutrition and hydration, why not air which would be so much more humane?

Insult .... insult!!!! I try to help and you call it INSULT!!!
Your questions are insults. Why don't you read what you write if you won't read others.

You truly beleive that it would less painful ..... to die of suffocation ... struggling and gasping for breath than to slip into a coma from lack of nutrition.

Why do I try????

I missed something ... what would be struggling and gasping for breath? The shell?

You're a big boy now, go to the dictionary and look up three words; pons, medulla oblongata, and autonomic. Then come back and tell us what you learned

Not at all. This is clearly a very peaceful, beautiful, dignified form of death, especially when coupled with an electronic device that announces successful completion of the act with a recorded voice saying, "That's all, folks." It was really Foxy who found something unpalatable about it.

I do know people, some in my own family recently, who have refused nutrition and hydration when they were in the final stages of dying from other causes. They did not die of dehydration.

So yes, I will work to be sure nobody is ever dehydrated to death again, meaning it will be seen as the inhumane and unconscionably cruel treatment that it is and will be illegal and it will not be imposed on people helpless to stop it.