Reply #95: Have youSEEN some of the posts today [View All]

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from people opening a hate fest on her parents? Then, when anyone posts in those threads that they feel bad for the parents (no, not just me; no I don't have a link but I've read them), or even express a view that we might not know the whole story or maybe we don't know what Terri's wishes were since they were not written down or any other glimmer of doubt, they are called freepers, fundies or worse. I'm not going to apologize for that statement. It was sarcastic. It was meant to be. I knew there would be flames, I just wanted people to know that there are always two sides. Only in DU would I be called a freeper/repub. because of expressing another side or compassion. For all of you wondering, yes I am a card-carrying Democrat working in a red office in a red state and going home to my red family every night proudly wearing my blue bracelet and driving my blue-bumper-stickered car. Yes, I'm for the right of every individual to choose to die naturally, I have a living will stating my intentions to not be kept alive in a PVS and I also support a woman's right to choose. Yes, I think that they probably should have allowed Terri the right to die a long time ago, assuming that was her wish and that she was really in a PVS. No, I don't think that because her parents fought for what they believed to be in the best interest of their daughter (and fought dirty), that they should be hated. Yes, I also believe that Michael is a good person, that he loved Terri and had her best interest in his heart. I believe that he, too, deserves love, empathy, compassion and support. Love, compassion and empathy is always more effective than hate and blind devotion to a cause with no regard to the emotions involved.