Re: Great True Crime Book - Panzram

In article <mVbzf.3885$so1.599@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tinydancer357
@hotmail.com says...
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> "Phoenix" <avianatrix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > In article <kD8zf.6513$Ea3.6257@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tinydancer357
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> > > "Nancy Rudins" <nrudins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > > Bo Raxo wrote:
> > > > > "Cliff and Linda Griffith" <grifftex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > > > news:15%yf.133$Eh5.69@xxxxxxxxxxx

> > > What's amazing to me is hearing this from those who supported the death
> of
> > > Terri Schiavo. I find it a far easier *slide* to this sort of scenario
> from
> > > Terri's side of the *mountain* rather than that of the multiple times
> > > convicted murderers'.
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> >
> > I've been waiting for someone to bring this up! :) Yes, there is an
> > apparent contradiction, isn't there!
> >
> > The sticking point would be that Terri wasn't killed so much as allowed
> > to die through the withdrawing of extreme heroic measures to keep her on
> > the barest edge of Living.
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> I guess that would depend upon what one describes as *extreme heroic
> measures*. My description of those would be 'life support' type machines,
> ventilators, etc., not simple sustenance, food and water. Especially in the
> event that Schiavo left no written instructions that this was her wish. No
> living will, nothing in her hand that these were her wishes.


Then we have to enact something like unassailable living wills for
everyone. There has to be a specific form that is used throughout all
jurisdictions, and I'm not entirely comfortable with this option.

For myself, the word of the next of kin is enough until we legally call
a halt to the practise in order to implement a different, better,
standard. And the decision is better handled privately without the
interference of government regulation.


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> I find a situation such as hers to be a far greater *threat* to a situation
> described by bo, nancy and the others who responded to this thread, rather
> than the example of 'carrying out a death sentence, handed down by a judge
> and jury, to a multiple murderer.

I disagree. The DP isn't debated near enough to make me comfortable
with it. But these right to die cases go through a ton of public
censure when any question of their validity is noticed by the media.

My feelings on the DP is that no government should have the right to
kill citizens under any conditions, no matter how guilty. Do I think
some people deserve to be eliminated? Oh yeah. But I'm not about to
give my government the power to carry out a hit based on my desires or
anyone else's. Once we give away that power, it can be used on anyone.

bel


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