Modification of Geneva Conventions

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I wasn't aware you were a neurologist, Rupert. Amazing the things you learn about people on this board! Senator Frist isn't, you know.

Did you read the results of the autopsy? Her brain was liquified. For that matter, did you watch all the hours and hours of tapes, or just the highlights the family cut together to make it look like she was responding? From what I read, the many hours of tape included lots of stuff they didn't show-- they only showed the moments that made it look like she was responding... you know, blind squirrel and all that.

I also do not oppose euthanasia, and would prefer someone being allowed to die be given drugs to let them die, but in Schivo's case, I sincerely doubt she felt anything.

If it were you, Rupert, would you want to be trapped in a body that couldn't think, couldn't move, couldn't do anything, or would you want to be let go?

In any event, sixteen (I think it was sixteen) judges, over half of them conservatives, had heard the case and found repeatedly in favor of the husband. But clearly the current man in the White House has no respect for separation of powers (see "torture" and "court finds against it"). Did you like how he spent our tax dollars on his special midnight flight back to Washington to sign that bill about her?

There were plenty of doctors and nurses that examined her that would disagree with you.

I have no idea what she felt or didn't feel.

That's a ridiculous thing to say that Bush has no respect for separations of power. I guess you could say the same thing when they use to try KKK guys in the south back in the 1960s on federal charges after they were acquitted by juries. The courts were obviously not doing their jobs back then when they let KKK members go free for lynching people so the federl government stepped in and acted.

With regard to the autopsy on Schiavo, did the doctor who did the autopsy have an agenda? I don't know the answer to that. I'm not saying he did, but I don't know that he didn't.