[Vision2020] Both faces of Tom Delay

[Donovan Arnold]

Pat and Scott,

I do agree that there is a very BIG difference between pulling the plug on a 
machine that functions as an organ in the body versus denying someone food 
and water. Every person would die without food and water.

I could see myself on either side of fence of wanting to let her die because 
of her poor quality of life. However, I think starving someone to death is a 
slow and painful way to go and it is cruel to end her life in this manner.

But on the other hand, Jeb Bush, George Bush,  and Tom Delay are hypocrites 
for doing nothing if they truly believe this is murder. They are the most 
powerful men in the country. If they really did want to save her life, they 
could have found a way, even if it was by questionable means.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold

>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Both faces of Tom Delay
>Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:05:27 -0800
>
>I am trying to understand why you posted this with the title. Did you write
>the title or did you get it off CNN who will go to any lengths to be 
>stupid.
>If you cannot see the differences in an old person with no hope and a young
>woman whose only life support is a feeding tube I have a suggestion for 
>your
>family. They should all make out living wills and make sure your not
>anywhere near the premises at the end. Terri only has a feeding tube, no
>breathing help, no dialysis for her kidneys, no heart help...just a feeding
>tube. A very different set of circumstances.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Dredge" <sdredge at yahoo.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:20 PM
>Subject: [Vision2020] Both faces of Tom Delay
>
>
>LOS ANGELES - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who has
>helped lead a congressional effort to keep Terri
>Schiavo alive, joined members of his own family nearly
>17 years ago in allowing doctors not to take
>extraordinary measures to extend his father's life, a
>newspaper reported Sunday.
>
>DeLay had just been re-elected to his third term in
>Congress in 1988 when his father, Charles DeLay, was
>severely injured in an accident. As the elder DeLay's
>vital organs began failing, the family chose not to
>connect him to a dialysis machine or take other
>measures to prolong his life, the Los Angeles Times
>reported Sunday, citing court documents, medical
>records and interviews with family members.
>
>"There was no point to even really talking about it,"
>Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old mother,
>told the Times. "Tom knew, we all knew, his father
>wouldn't have wanted to live that way."
>
>DeLay helped push through Congress a special law
>allowing Terri Schiavo's parents to ask federal courts
>to order their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube
>reinserted after state courts allowed it to be
>removed. However, after hearing their pleas, federal
>judges refused to intervene.
>
>The Texas Republican also accused Schiavo's husband
>and the courts of "an act of barbarism" against
>Schiavo, who doctors say is in a persistent vegetative
>state.
>
>The congressman declined to be interviewed about his
>father's case, but a press aide said it was "entirely
>different than Terri Schiavo's."
>
>"The only thing keeping her alive is the food and
>water we all need to survive. His father was on a
>ventilator and other machines to sustain him," said
>DeLay spokesman Dan Allen.
>
>Charles DeLay, 65, and his brother and their wives
>were trying out a tram the brothers had built to carry
>their families up and down a slope from their Texas
>home to the shore of a lake when the tram jumped the
>tracks on Nov. 17, 1988.
>
>Charles DeLay was pitched headfirst into a tree.
>Hospital admission records showed he suffered multiple
>injuries, including a brain hemorrhage.
>
>Doctors advised that he would "basically be a
>vegetable," said the congressman's aunt, JoAnne DeLay,
>who suffered broken bones in the crash.
>
>Like Schiavo, Charles DeLay had no living will, but he
>had reportedly expressed to others his wish not to be
>kept alive by artificial means.
>
>He died on Dec. 14, 1988. He hadn't shown any signs of
>being conscious, except that his pulse rate would rise
>slightly when younger son Randall entered the room,
>Maxine DeLay said.
>
>"There was no chance he was ever coming back," she
>said of her husband.
>
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