Text 10973, 57 rader
Skriven 2005-04-03 12:37:07 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
  Kommentar till text 10970 av Max Kohn (1:18/200)
Ärende: Re: Bo Gritz
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03 Apr 05 12:57, Max Kohn wrote to John Hull:

 MK> *** Quoting John Hull from a message to Max Kohn ***

 MK>> > Show me proof of her wishes.  I want to see it on a website or a 
 MK>> > scanned image.  I'm sure she never said "I want to be starved to 
 MK>> > death"

 JH>> > Before the Schiavo case, how many people knew that being allowed 
 JH>> > to die might entail just such a method?  I'd wager that 95 out 
 JH>> > of 100 would think it meant simply turning off a switch.

 MK>> That's a pretty flimsy answer.  The answer is that you don't have 
 MK>> such proof.  That's why I want to make changes to my living will.  
 MK>> I do not wish to be starved to death, regardless of my condition. 
 MK>>  I'd rather be euthanized.   I wonder if that could be done 
 MK>> legally.  :)  On a more serious note, the only heroic methods I 
 MK>> would refuse to allow is the removal of a respirator or heart-lung 
 MK>> machine.

 JH>> Gimme a break, Max.  I'm being practical.  Most people, average 
 JH>> citizens, don't think about this stuff until it rises to the top 
 JH>> of the pot on a good rolling boil.  And then they are pushed and 
 JH>> pulled by the media until they think the way they are told to 
 JH>> think.  There's a difference betweenhaving the switch turned off 
 JH>> and pulling the tube like in the Schiavo case.  Until that 
 JH>> difference sinks into the psyche of the average citizen, they 
 JH>> don't have any idea what's going on except what they hear on the 
 JH>> network news.  

 MK>  I've already told you that no matter my condition I never want a 
 MK> feeding tube removed and I refuse to be allowed to be starved to death.  
 MK> If my life is being saved by a respirator, turn it off and let me go 
 MK> but do NOT let me starve to death.  I swear I'll haunt anyone who starves 
 MK> me to death.
 MK>  That's all I have to say on this.

I doubt that.  But, keep in mind that you are already way beyond the average
person on this and other subjects of a political nature simply by participating
in this echo.

Your opinions are more informed as a result of the discussions you've
participated in here, even though you may disagree with everybody, or may not.
You've had the opportunity to hear both sides argued without the filter of some
talking head media flack, and people have posted verbatim much of what has been
said in court over the last 15 years.

And, despite all that, you still act as if someone is trying to force you to
change your mind.  

John 

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