[lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die

  • From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:10:31 -0500

Julie:<By Friday, dehydration was taking its toll. 
Terri Schiavo's tongue and eyes were bleeding and her skin was flaking off, 
said Barbara Weller, the Schindlers' attorney.>> 

This is in direct contradiction to what I heard two people say on
television.  One is a physician and the other is a hospice nurse.  I would
not be inclined to believe either side's lawyers as opposed to medical
opinion. One could not deal with anyone's death with any degree of aplomb. 
Like for example, the eleven children a day that are murdered in this
country.  Or the deaths in Iraq, Darfur, etc.  No aplomb here.

Veronica


> [Original Message]
> From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/26/2005 8:31:45 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die
>
> Aside from the rational, logical, philosophical issues, there is a more  
> atavistic aspect to all of this.  The news doesn't really describe what a
death 
> like this is like.  If you were her parents?  Even if you  believed she
didn't 
> experience sensation?  Could you deal with this with  any degree of
aplomb?  
> Or would you be clawing, screaming, begging everyone  to help.  
>  
> <<Doctors have said the 41-year-old woman would probably die within a 
week 
> or two of the tube being removed. By Friday, dehydration was taking its 
toll. 
> Terri Schiavo's tongue and eyes were bleeding and her skin was flaking 
off, 
> said Barbara Weller, the Schindlers' attorney.>>  
>  
> The pragmatics are not as nice and clean as all our hypothesizing about  
> right and wrong, or even rights.
>  
> Julie Krueger
>
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