back peddler...now your back peddling on the back peddling...See the process you started? When will the insanity end!

if only;;; sometimes it seems more like a roll of TP!!! -- j

You're like a kitty with a ball of yarn.

Bahaha

I agree.

What? Well, if that's the case then I demand someone murder me if I'm in that condition. How do you equate that to murder... ten years of feeding tubes and shriveling. KILL ME!! Have some mercy.

Gah! Nooooo. Omg. :(

I didn't allow that thing in my house... and my kids are better for it.

Lol

I never back peddle.

I was psychologically trapped in love with that young
atheist friend for 23 years -- wrote the "we each
need only say yes" poem to her --- and part of me
is still back there with her conscience in my mind
as a consult when I make decisions. . she was
my Rand's daughter and is still a friend. . such is
life -- it unravels as fast as I can ravel ... !!! -- j

That begs the question...can he evan pass on his gene pool?? AJ kicked him pretty hard.

don't back peddle now...:)

I was making a joke... of course I know you better. Sigh... wait you're being a smart ass now. Whatever ... kicking him was funny.

I think it was her parents who made it a circus show by fighting his decision. He claimed it was her wishes.

To each his/her own, no?

I believe you are right about that, but the mainscream media couldn't resist making it a News and Public "Decision" too... I hated all of that....

I can sympathize with him to a tiny degree -- I was
an objectivist trapped in a young firstborn male's
body, and no one could begin to understand me
except one friend -- an atheist -- whom my family
could not accept. . they kept playing baptist in front
of me, year after year, and could not see that my
consciousness was awake.

I am sooooooo glad that this man made it!!! -- j

If memory serves, I believe she placed her trust in her husband and it was his call to make on her behalf. Anything more than that, related to her specific instance, is meaningless.

Write your DNR clause carefully. Mine says No Cerebral Electrical Activity ==> Pull the Plug.

While the mainscream press portrayed Terry Schiavo as a Sleeping Beauty resting on a bed of roses, other reports claimed that the reality was far from that.

What is or was your 'take' on the Schiavo situation?

If you believe she did NOT have any cerebral activity, we need to discuss the definition (or your definition) of "murder." If you believe that she DID demonstrate cerebral activity, we'd need to have some good proof of that, too, before making a worthwhile discussion of this.

I know that feeling, Mike :(

People need to remember that he was in a "vegetative" state and not "brain dead". These are totally different states and one that some have trouble coming to grips over.

Like the 12 year old girl, who was declared brain dead, following a tonsillectomy, I believe. Her parents refused to give up, even though there was NO way she was ever going to come back.

As long as this man's body was properly functioning, without the need for life support, I believe his parent's choice to continue to care for him was the right choice (for them). Unfortunately, the story will probably get turned into a lesson of "hope" for any number of hopeless cases out there. Then, only the medical community will benefit.

My father-in-law died of ALS. It's pretty much the same. He was trapped in a non-functioning body while still conscious. I imagined I saw his eyes plead for death as his body deteriorated into a skeletal shell, and had only machines keeping his heart and breathing going. My mother-in-law stayed with him night and day until she was ready to collapse. She was finally convinced to go home and rest. When she did, he died. I think the nurses at the Hospice took pity on him and turned him off.

Thanks for sharing this interesting story. I was inspired reading it. Despite hating Barney, maybe the Barney song "I love you, you love me" gave him something to hold on to. I wonder what his perceptions are on how the world has changed. Sometimes when I think of how far our country has regressed I feel like I am in a coma. I am hoping to wake up realizing that Obama was just a bad dream, then I quickly realize this nightmare is real.

Reminds me of Anne McCaffery's "The Ship Who Sang".