#40320 - 03/27/06 03:18 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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maggieodae
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Three months ago I stood beside the bed of my dying husband. No dumb nitwit was even going to suggest starving him to death. Michael is/was an idiot!How stupid and cowardly and evil does this world have to get?
Life isn't always perfect, but it is LIFE until God say's it is not!
Father Pavone is right on. Been there done that.
I also was in coma when I was a child. Yeah! Drooling brainless idiot to the likes of the killer crowd. Thank the good lord Michael and dumb ass company was NOT in charge.
You go girl. Make the real brainless idiots think about it.
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#40321 - 03/27/06 03:22 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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MerryA
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maggieodae - sorry for the loss of your husband 
But I personally would not want to live in a persistent, permenant vegatative state - and have said so in writing.
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#40322 - 03/27/06 03:25 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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SteveGIMP
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God is a myth.
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#40323 - 03/27/06 03:30 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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Wabi
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You better hope he is....
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#40324 - 03/27/06 03:34 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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maggieodae
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I personally was glad to be in a vegitative state and alive regardless of what the nincompoops thought.Just beacause it wasn't pretty nor according to the average persons ideals, didn't make it a life less worthy.
OH! And yeah! God does exist...but those who think they are their own creator don't get it. They will in the end.
Everyone dies, and everyone has a choice about Eternity. God sends no one to hell. There are more than enough self absorbed idiots who send themselves there.
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#40325 - 03/27/06 03:40 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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SteveGIMP
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Originally posted by maggieodae:
God sends no one to hell.
That's because hell is a myth too.
There are more than enough self absorbed idiots who send themselves there.
Sorry for your loss.
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#40326 - 03/27/06 03:55 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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maggieodae
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Well, after 44 years of fighting the good fight, the loss was not a loss.It was one grace after another, regardless of what the cowards of this world say.
God and heaven and hell do exit. My beloved had the good moral sense to keep on fighting until God said enough. Yes, I looked into his eye's, held him, loved him and watched him die in Gods good time... and it was a lot longer than one stinking hour.
No...death and suffering is not pretty. But the world must be painfree and perfect crowd, will never get it. Mores the pity for them. In the end they lose it all.
The nitwits of the world gave up on him when he was 19. God had other plans. We have 3 great kids, 3 grandchildren, and one G Grandchild. He was a better man by far than the Michael Schivos of this world.And he lived with dignity and purpose to the very end.
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#40327 - 03/27/06 04:07 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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MerryA
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OK, if the "loss was not a loss" then why the hostility? 
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#40328 - 03/27/06 07:07 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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maggieodae
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I do not consider it hostility...I consider it instructing the ignorant. If I had a nickle for all the yahoo's who said : "Oh, it's so sad, no quality of life...how terrible, how unfair"...I would be rich.
Did I mention my children inherited this rather dibilitating problem. I happen to love them and see their life as worth while too. I happen to like my crippled old body that I have been trapped in since age 8.
I do not like all the whiners who want to say life isn't worth living unless you are healthy and viable according to their standards. I happen to love my cousin who lived in a vegitative state for 20 years. She gave more to the world than all the "Pretty boy/girl" whiners ever have. Unless you have walked a mile in theose shoes and then some, I would suppose you might consider it hostility. Let me tell you...Ain't no one gonna take out my loved ones with their false compassion.
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#40329 - 03/27/06 07:26 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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maggieodae
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Even when not motivated by a selfish refusal to be burdened with the life of someone who is suffering, euthanasia must be called a false mercy, and indeed a disturbing "perversion" of mercy. True "compassion" leads to sharing another's pain; it does not kill the person whose suffering we cannot bear. Moreover, the act of euthanasia appears all the more perverse if it is carried out by those, like relatives, who are supposed to treat a family member with patience and love, or by those, such as doctors, who by virtue of their specific profession are supposed to care for the sick person even in the most painful terminal stages.
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#40330 - 03/27/06 07:27 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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Johnboy 64
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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#40331 - 03/27/06 09:22 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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candra
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I'm not likely to be presented with this decision in my lifetime. My parents both died quickly and were not on life support. My husband lost his father when he was 13 and his mother has a living will. My husband (and I) also have living wills.
But let's just assume for one minute that those living wills did not exist. We all have had discussions with one another about our wishes (not unlike Terry S). In the end we all do not want to be kept alive in a permanent veg state. I could live with any kind of physical dis, but take away any part of my brain function, and well I don't want to live. Coincidentally this also happens to be the wishes of my husband and mil. In any case, if the living will did not exist I would have no problem at all taking out a feeding tube if it was determined that either one of these relatives was brain dead or severely brain injured, because that is what they both want. I would hope they would do the same for me.
FWIW, if I was in Michael's shoes, I would have done the exact same thing.
As for the parents vs the hubby in the Schiavo case, I have to side with the hubby. Let's be honest, kids don't tell their parents *everything* (especially when they are in their 20s), but some parents think they do (and profess to know their 20-something child's wishes because of a comment offered after after Sunday school in the 6th grade). People change (especially kids and teens and 20-somethings). The parents may think they know what their daughter wanted, but it's only because they think hubby doesn't know. Daughter communicated with hubby. It's only natural. You share lots of stuff with your spouse that you wouldn't share with your parents.
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#40333 - 03/27/06 10:07 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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flicka
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Originally posted by maggieodae:
True "compassion" leads to sharing another's pain; it does not kill the person whose suffering we cannot bear.
Would true compassion ignore that request?
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#40334 - 03/27/06 10:14 PM
Re: An Open letter to Michael Sciavo on the one year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death
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SteveGIMP
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True compassion can also mean putting aside our selfish desire to hold onto loved ones, and to just let them go.
There are worse things than being dead.
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I don't think I was that non-hostile in my first 5 posts, and that is saying a lot 
