Read This And You're Going To Hell

[filkertom]

Courtesy of Grand Moff Texan, a commenter at Atrios...

Terry Schiavo's Blog.

Comments

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Tom, dammit, I was drinking! Laughing while trying to swallow = joining her in the need for a feeding tube from oxygen deprivation.

Man, I was going to Hell, anyway. I figure if I do enough stuff that will send me to Hell, I'll either get redeemable frequent flyer miles or end up being put so far down that they have to tell Satan to get out of my spot.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That was remarkably tasteless.

[gallian.livejournal.com]

that was 700 kinds of wrong.
but why am i not surprised that someone created it?

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

heheheheh. Evil!

[johno.livejournal.com]

There's her LJ version as well...

terrischiavo

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

</obvious>

The LJ version's not nearly as effective (or obnoxious).

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

I think it's highly unfortunate. Up to this point, I had only known one person to have interpreted the case as, "Because I don't want to live like that, no one should live like that."

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Really? I had the impression that was the general consensus...I'm probably just reading inattentively. I seem to have read so many posts urging that doctors should be given the power to terminate life at whim--sorry, er, I mean, when the circumstances truly justify such action. Of course, they may all have been from the same person...

The really funny part will be if the random noises this person is posting turn out to be a summoning incantation for an Elder God. I think we're about due....how does that song go again, Tom?

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

On the serious side, the issue of whether one should have the right to end medical intervention to save one's own life is different from euthanasia and yet still different from the question of what to do if those wishes are not sufficiently clear (i.e., with a written advanced directive on medical care). My father made it very clear that he did not want a feeding tube as his Parkinson's progressed. But I never heard him voice any sentiments in favor of euthanasia (which I think of as deciding when someone else's life is no longer worth living).

At least in the U.S. in my immediate circle, I've heard people's concerns phrased as matters of privacy, generally, where people have sided with Michael Schiavo and relieved at the lack of court intervention in the last few weeks. Maybe things are sounding different on the other side of the pond.

[armb.livejournal.com]

I've seen three different positions, none of which is the one you describe.
One is "she's been irreversibly brain dead for years, the courts have repeatedly found that her body should be allowed to die in accordance with the best available evidence for her wishes, let her die".
One is "there might be a miracle, we should keep her body working just in case God is prepared recreate her brain one day but not fix her if the rest of her body stops".
One is "it's ok to force poor black people to have treatment stopped against the wishes of their next of kin but this is different because there might be some votes in it for us".

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

Up to this point, I had only known one person to have interpreted the case as ...

I should note here that I was talking about the author(s) of the "Schiavo blog," not reading anything into Tom's mention of it. He and I don't see eye to eye on everything, but he's as good a human being as I am, flawed as we both are.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

sick but satisfying.

What little dignity that poor woman had went out the window when the politicians got their hands on the business.

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Oh come on...she's obviously plagiarizing Helen Keller! Someone should sue.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Some of the comments on there are a little frightening...