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Work today was busy in a cerebral way. But I came out the better for it. I hit the gym, making it three times this week. Rejoice.

I caught that Terri Shiavo had her feeding tube removed today. It's a shame they just can't put her out quickly so she doesn't physically suffer. Then again, if she's a vegetable, she shouldn't really care. In theory.

However, I think it's pretty horrible that she's been forced to keep her alive all this time. There's something here that doesn't make sense. First of all, it seems that a number of court appeals have gone down that keep siding with her husband. Second, if her husband really didn't care about her, he would just give her up to her parents so they can care for her and "live the dream" of waiting for a severely brain damaged woman to "bounce back" after 15 years of...not bouncing back.

All these religious people are coming to her aid in prayer. I thought heaven was a wonderful place. Instead of letting her go there, they would much rather her live out "God's plan" by sitting in her own filth, which must regularly be cleansed by others, and lay there with a feeding tube in her. Yeah. That's good living. She has no free will, except for blinking. Yeah. She can get her blink on. I'm fairly sure that the Operation Rescue folks coming to her aid are either sadists or equally as brain dead as she is.

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Now her family wants to drag her to Washington to put her in front of the politicians so they can see how "alive" she is...after all she functions like a 6 month old!

May we all learn from this woman's suffering to make sure our wishes are clear to our family and our doctors.

yeah my dad just insisted i check to make sure i have a copy of his living will. perhaps i need to make one. then again none of my family is religious nuts, so that's a plus, they should be able to kill me with much less opposition if need be.

Or just using her to appear compassionate. This whole situation makes me determined to draft a will and a living will ASAP, so I don't end up in a similar situation. J knows I wouldn't want to live like that, but my parents won't accept that. I know they'd fight him on it, so I have to make it easy for all. Not that I'm planning to be reduced to just getting my blink on.

the bush mentality has ushered in a new age where if you don't like what the courts decide, you just pass more legislation and amendments to change that. and it's a shame that because people who "value life" only value the physical part of it, where quality is irrelevant, more humane forms of euthanasia are not available. they actually made it worse than it needs to be, murderers who die by lethal injection have it better. sad world we live in eh?

this is just so heinous. Ugh. These weasels are ripping apart our constitution. I've not seen anything so brazen. Now there's a big fight going on between the judicial and legislative branch.

yep. this is the first administration i have lived thru and been aware of where they have tried to do that, specifically thwart the 3 branches and checks and balances, to override the judicial branch and the decisions they don't liek by passing laws and amendments. to me, that is the scariest thing about his presidency.