If Michael Schiavo had met Yacov the Jerusalemite
By Jonathan Rosenblum
"My only question for Michael Schiavo is: Why insist on retaining the power to kill your wife while...? Why not simply divorce her?"Michael Schiavo promised to love Terri 'until death do us part' and that is exactly what he did. We all have the legal power to refuse medical treatment.
"But I would fear to live in a society that sets the procedural and evidentiary bar so low for the termination of life as the state of Florida has done in the case of Terry Schiavo."
I am a retired nurse and know that when the brain does not get enough oxygen the brain cells die - the last to die are the involuntary functions of the body, like reflexes and body organs. Nurses take notes and there are now 15 years worth. A good nurses also make good nurses notes that describe a patients condition - like 'non responsive' to such and such a testing, describes intake and out put, ability to swallow or not, verbal responsive or not etc etc.
"Indeed the killing by starvation of a sentient, responsive woman, who requires no more life support than an infant, is already well down the road."
The operative word here it "responsive".
Even Pope John refuses extreme treatments to keep him alive by refusing to go to the hospital (and it had nothing to do with it him not being moved because it would make his infection worse).
"That slippery slippery slope is rapidly traversed."
The fear of every conservative when ever change is contemplated.
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