I am RSVPing for the LUSH thing next Saturday right now. I was on the fence about going, but I think I am convinced.

Their whole "Save Terri's Life" campaign is causing me to feel increasingly divided from the disability rights movement. Because they really believe if Terri doesn't "live", I could go in, have my tonsils out, and end up with a toe tag.Mouth has been all about "Godwin's Law" lo these many months, and they wouldn't print my piece on the issue because I wasn't on their side enough. But on this issue, I can't have a side. Not one I'll stick to No Matter What, anyway.

I think the thing about the Schiavo case that causes me the most frustration is the fact that the Republican party--the party that has billed itself as the "small government" party--has consistently proven itself NOT to be. It wants to insinuate itself into the most private aspects of our lives--our sex lives, our marriages, our medical decisions.

Here's a marriage between a man and a woman that models exactly what they want and now they're not even letting that be. What is the incentive to get married if the state is going to involve itself in every decision from having children to religion to death.

They are saying one thing and doing the opposite. And it's pissing me off.

I am still a Lush virgin. Every time I go on the site I'm consumed with wanting everything, and then I get overwhelmed and walk away.

the thing about the Schiavo case that causes me the most frustration

I've only been following this randomly over the years, and I admit I'm not informed about all the details, but what I don't understand is why her husband won't sign her care over to her parents. If they're willing to continue her care, and obviously want to, why does he feel the need to have the last (no horrible pun intended there) word?

There are cynical people who believe he wants the insurance money when she dies.

Yeah, this thing is ugly all around.

Wrod. And it can't be good for our movement to get in bed with Jeb. God, I so hoped she'd be dead before this. And they do too want to run all of our lives. Movement people think it makes a statement about the value of life with a disability not keeping Terri "alive". Personally, I can't see what difference it makes and I would rather die a thousand times than be Necro-Right-wingPoster Child.

I would totally date (or at least laugh at) any of these people:

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Amyliz, by now both sides are fiercely locked into their positions.

But when it all started, the husband faithfully nursed and tended the wife for years; eventually he came to the conclusion that she would never recover. He then went to court and stated that she had told him that she didn't want to live like that.

The court decided (and nobody has ever refuted these facts) that the wife had told the husband that she didn't want to live in a vegetative state.

So that's why he started the whole thing: he was carrying out his wife's last wishes.

AmyLiz, I wonder the same thing. Wasn't he, at some point, offered a billion dollars or something to sign her care over? My assumption is that he knows that Terri wouldn't have wanted all of this mess and is going to try and fulfill what she wanted. OTOH, if it were me in the situation, I'd have to give up and say, "Fine - here you go. I can't do this anymore."

There are cynical people who believe he wants the insurance money when she dies.

There isn't any left. It's run out.

There isn't any left. It's run out.

Oh.

Then...

I don't know.