living swill

SCHIAVO ('slave' in italian)
* being single is cool - but to whom do u bequeath your living will?

* "In 1992, Schiavo had filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors who had been treating his wife before she was stricken. Late that year came a settlement: Schiavo received $300,000 for loss of consortium — his wife's companionship. Another $700,000 was ordered for Terri's care." LINK
theres a $1m lawsuit involved and this is the first ive heard of it? JUNK i say JUNK!

* " Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, author of the award winning book "Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America" call upon the Florida Courts, Governor Jeb Bush and concerned citizens to take any legal action available to let Terri Schiavo live." LINK
say it isnt so. please say it isnt so.

* "You point out how hypocritical the Republicans are being without thinking about WHY. Stop arguing details, getting all caught up and pinned down. Start arguing the larger narrative.
Tune in to Limbaugh. Go read the Right's press. They are escalating this. Ask yourself why." LINK

* theres been a few calls for jeb to use the military to save schiavo. if by 'save' u mean 'keep her from her maker against her wishes'. maker? make her live.

* "Two prominent neurologists who have asked to remain anonymous have examined CNN behind closed doors and determined that the network is irreversibly brain-dead, as flooded with cerebral fluid as the hull of the S.S. Poseidon. It still retains some primitive reflexes and signs of animation, but a brain-scan revealed the sort of minimal activity usually associated with punch-drunk prizefighters condemned to a flophouse cot, or a broken toaster." LINK

* today is a good day to be a living-will lawyer.

* i mentioned christopher reeves the other day wrt schiavo. heres frist on reeves, 6 months ago:
"Frist responded on a conference call with reporters arranged by the Bush-Cheney campaign: "I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people… We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype.
“It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope."" LINK

* "A letter in the Des Moines Register today sez that the repubs have just
defined marriage as “one man, one woman, her parents, and the US Congress."" LINK

* "Frist wrote a book in 1989 called Transplant where he advocated changing the definition of "brain dead" to include anencephalic babies. Anencephalic babies are in the same state as Terri Schiavo except that she suffered a physical trauma that put her into a vegetative state while the anencephalic babies are born that way." LINK

* "Anyway, the thing about this stupid "culture of life" phrase is not just the hypocrisy. I have also noticed that two values that BushCo likes to fling around are "life" and "freedom", but I have also noticed that the two are opposite values in their rhetoric. You can have freedom or life, but not both. They are pretty consistent in this viewpoint, and if they evoke freedom, you can be sure they are covering up for someone's death, and if they evoke "life", you can be sure they are trying to take away your freedoms. "

* itd be funny if schiavo dies and jeb gets blamed. much funny.