"Christian" doctors call Schiavo death "unnatural","deliberate", "painful"

[Bluebear]

Washington, DC, March 31, 2005— The head of the nation's largest faith-based association of physicians today lamented Terri Schiavo's death as a failure of medicine, law and culture.

David Stevens, M.D., Executive Director of the 17,000-member Christian Medical Association, (www.cmdahome.org) said, "Today we grieve, along with Terri's parents and siblings, for a life unnaturally cut short. Terri's death reflects a failure of a medical system that failed to insist on a definitive diagnosis consensus, a legal system that failed to deliver due process, and a culture that failed to distinguish between artificially prolonging life and deliberately ending life.

"Removing Terri's tube was done simply to remove a burdensome patient. Reliable neurologists determined that Terri was not in a persistent vegetative state, which means her starvation and dehydration led to a slow and painful death.

http://www.cmdahome.org/index.cgi?BISKIT=3435851238&CONTEXT=art&art=2982

[camitche]

1. not to be hateful, but let's be done with Schiavo

The whole nation has witnessed the lunacy of the RWers.

[Bluebear]

7. Re: "Let's be done with Schiavo"

Oh, I think the RW's attempt to dismantle the judiciary has longer implications than just this case. Just my opinion.

[wryter2000]

2. God hates liars, pal

You'd better atone before you meet your maker.

[democracyindanger]

3. That should be Christian "Doctors"

[Sandpiper]

4. I found a picture of this Doctor

Here he is:

[flakey_foont]

Dr. Hugo Z. Quackenbush

[Zenlitened]

5. Bullshit and lies, which is what I'd expect from a group like this.

Yeah, there was no due process in this case. :crazy:

[Zuni]

6. well, all you need to know is here:

nation's largest faith-based association of physicians

[Bluebear]

8. They have a "find a Christian doctor in your area" feature

I intend to search it whenever I need a doctor to see who I will NOT go to.

[Zenlitened]

10. Thanks, but I'd prefer a science-based physician!

[mmonk]

9. They shouldn't bear false witness

[SaveElmer]

11. If these whacks truly believe we are all judged after our death

They had better look out below!

These are hateful, cruel people who wouldn't know the real meaning of Jesus' teachings if it bit them on the ass!!!

[BuyingThyme]

12. Oxymoronic

morans.

[_TJ_]

13. An UNNATURAL death?

Keeping her alive for 15 years was sodding unnatural :eyes:

[ClintonTyree]

16. STOP MAKING SENSE................

you'll never get anywhere in this world making sense. :woohoo: Get nuts, get wacky, GET AWAY FROM ME! Making sense, you're weird!

[_TJ_]

21. Sorry I forgot that quote came from Bizarro World

Message ends!

[ghostsofgiants]

14. "A life unnaturally cut short"

So she needs an artificial means of being fed, and that is natural?

[Bluebear]

23. Every hospice patient must live as LONG AS POSSIBLE!

It's the "Christian physician" way!

[ghostsofgiants]

26. Haha, that's something I don't get...

Wouldn't you think that Christians would want her to be "with God"?

[sinkingfeeling]

15. I did a search on neurology and found Dr. William Cheshire of

Jacksonville, Fl was a member.

[jonnyblitz]

17. scary.

that is all I can say. :scared:

[oneighty]

18. Do these Doctors

do their doctoring for free?

How do they compare with oh, lets say; 'Doctors Without Borders'?

180

[Kinkistyle]

19. In other words: Who cares what Terri wanted?

So I am assuming that even if Terri specifically and directly laid out in writing to pull the plug, these doctors would have disapproved?

[Bluebear]

24. That's why it is imperative NOT to use a "Christian physician"

from their membership if you hope to die under your own terms.

[NC_Nurse]

20. Some docs just can't get enough of playing God

Never mind the facts, Ma'am...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Behind the Aegis]

22. I am sick of these people!

If they are so fired up, then why the Hell were they not in Florida giving her FREE treatment! Put your money (faith) where your fucking mouth is! When does this crap stop!?! I have NO problem with a doctor who is a Christian, I do take issue with a Christian doctor! The latter tells me where his/her priorities lie!

[onenote]

25. I wonder how many of the Faux News bozos would use one of these guys