If TS is in pain then TS must be alive. Administering morphine then implies that TS is alive.
You have to assume that only Living Things feel pain. I don't want to be crass, but Flatworms feel pain. Insects feel pain.
You don't have to be a living human to suffer.
TS has a brainstem, a brainstem+body can feel pain. Just like a brainstem+body is capable of writhing and moaning.
Given that the law forbids acts of compassionate termination, complements of Bush and Ashcroft (US vs. Oregon), doesn't mean that we can't treat the remains of Ts with dignity and treat what ever it is left behind that might suffer.
Why don't you set aside ignorance and pay attention to the facts of the case. TS is cortically dead. There is nothing human left behind. If you can argue otherwise convincingly, I'd love to hear it.
Thats what I thought....
Davin L.
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Thats not even an argument, its an case of analogies and ignoring scientifically established fact.
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- re: 1) That they followed along with the political current... - I thought the majority of Americans wanted the plug pulled/sided with the husband? So the polls say. (n/t)
- So they [the Polls] say NOW, when the bill was up for debate....
- re: No real scientific fact has been done...
- So they [the Polls] say NOW, when the bill was up for debate....
- re: 1) That they followed along with the political current... - I thought the majority of Americans wanted the plug pulled/sided with the husband? So the polls say. (n/t)
- 1) That they followed along with the political current does not mean that they are right
- Yoiiks...........
- So, Jesse Jackson, Joe Liebermann, and Ralph Nader are now part of the Christian Right?
- So...
- re: So...
- Joseph Brosz? Yipes. Far as I know, no relation. (n/t)
- Try reading
- Tell that to the handicapped
- The premise that TS is 'merely disabled' is flawed and a fabrication/distortion
- Wonder why they're giving her morphine... (n/t)
- Thats not even an argument, its an case of analogies and ignoring scientifically established fact.
- re: argument
- Question for ya
- Because it is the right of the Spouse to make care decisions, including end of life decisions.
- re: argument
- Thats not even an argument, its an case of analogies and ignoring scientifically established fact.
- Wonder why they're giving her morphine... (n/t)
- The premise that TS is 'merely disabled' is flawed and a fabrication/distortion
- Tell that to the handicapped
- re: So...
- Assuming what you say is true
- re: So...
- Being brain-dead is, indeed, a severe disability.......