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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:30 PM
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Does the Schaivo deal seem an exercise in futility to anybody?
First off, I look at Terri Schiavo as a human being who is really just living as a shell of what she was, for 15 years, she has not improved. I think they should let the poor lady go.

But I am thinking all these people protesting for her right to live can get something with a little more hope behind it to protest for. The lady's brain scan shows nothing. She is not improving, and she is not going to! Even if they were to get their wish, Terri Schiavo would still be living as a vegetable, and getting progressively worse in her condition.

I just think they are not being very opportunistic in their search for a cause. There is a young girl who was killed by a sex offender a couple of weeks ago, and there are laws that can be changed, children who could be protected by these laws changing. It just seems these protesters are having an exercise in futility.
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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:35 PM
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1. People die all the time...
often for bad reasons.

Often reasons that are more addressable than self inflicted brain death.

I find this case a great argument for physician assisted suicide.

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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:42 PM
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4. Yes they do!
It is just a bad fact of life, people die! It happens. They are trying to call the judges and Michael Sciavo a killer, but it was the heart attack that led to this, and if nature really took it's course, she would have passed a while ago.
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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:45 PM
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5. I agree completely.
Self inflicted and a long time ago at that.

Sad to see this fester and linger in America's living room.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:49 PM
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8. Sadly self inflicted, yes
Heck, it could happen from cigs, alcohol, obesity, whatever the poison is, sadly this shit happens.

Things in life go bad sometimes, and there isn't always some grand scheme behind it.
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not systems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:52 PM
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9. yep. n/t
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MrNiceGuyDied Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:36 PM
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2. I was going to start a new thread to reply but
I realized there was plenty of room left in this one to give you my opinion.

Terri wanted to die. George wants her to die. Jeb wants her to die. Karl wants her to die. Tom wants her to die. Bill wants her to die.

I could care less.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:46 PM
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6. Yep, she is a human who wanted to die
if she was in this situation. These folks should let her go, and not get all dramatic over it.

I guess it takes all kinds to make a world.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:39 PM
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3. It's about money, face time for failed wing-nuts, and bad advice.
Keep this in perspective. The soulless Con Jobs will try to twist the * judicial nominations into an example for 'activism' even though Judge Greer is a Conservative Baptist Republican.

They are like dogs, they will eat their own feces if the opportunity to pander presents itself.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 09:47 PM
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7. Yep, Delay was a perfect example of that last week
Mr. Ethics talking about Jesus and all.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:06 PM
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10. The RW leaders want to make a martyr out of her
That way, they keep their "base" fired up for midterm elections in 2006.
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