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Michael DeBusk
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:29 pm
Post subject: Re: ride the niddle ? |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:42:52 +0200, Tedfriet <friet@quicknet.nl> wrote:
| Quote: | The other day a documentary was shown here on Dutch TV in which a
inmate's sentence was commuted after the first injection and they
had to resuscitate him. Later on he was put to death anyway.
Horrible and inhuman IMHO.
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Although I favor the death penalty in principle, I would not favor a
man being executed twice for the same crime, even if he'd committed it.
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Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place
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meirman
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:01 am
Post subject: Re: ride the niddle ? |
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In alt.english.usage on Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:51:11 GMT Michael DeBusk
<m_debusk@despammed.com> posted:
| Quote: | On 17 Sep 2004 10:58:44 -0700, Christopher Green
cj.green@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
In Texas, physicians and nurses do not perform lethal-injection
executions, although a physician is called in to pronounce death.
I was under the impression that a physician did it.
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If I were a physician, I don't think I'd want to do it. Not that
being a doctor makes one, or at least would make me, more opposed to
the death penalty. But that I'd want to keep a perfect record, that I
spent my life trying to safe people, not kill them. OTOH, now that I
started this post I remember that some say some physcians do help
their patients die when they're in pain and there's nothing more that
can be done to cure them. But if I were not one of those.
I went to a discussion once about "Physician assisted suicide" and
personally I think the whole notion is silly. Assisting suicides
doesn't require great skill and it's a waste of valuable time to have
a doctor do it. You could probably learn how in one semester at
DeVry Institute, or some place like that.
s/ meirman If you are emailing me please
say if you are posting the same response.
Born west of Pittsburgh Pa. 10 years
Indianapolis, 7 years
Chicago, 6 years
Brooklyn NY 12 years
Baltimore 20 years |
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Michael DeBusk
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:36 am
Post subject: Re: ride the niddle ? |
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:01:56 -0400, meirman <meirman@invalid.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I went to a discussion once about "Physician assisted suicide" and
personally I think the whole notion is silly. Assisting suicides
doesn't require great skill and it's a waste of valuable time to
have a doctor do it. You could probably learn how in one semester
at DeVry Institute, or some place like that.
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I used to be strongly against euthanasia. One day I was walking through
the medical unit and some of the staff were talking about a cancer
patient they'd had earlier in the day. They mentioned that he'd been
there for a few days and hadn't been very alert most of the time. That
day, though, he sat bolt upright in bed, looked around, and then
started projectile-vomiting blood. He died that way a few minutes
later... alert, and spewing blood out of his mouth and nose.
My immediate internal response was, "Why didn't someone help him die?"
Then I realized what I'd thought, and knew that I was not, after all,
against euthanasia. I thought it was a pretty good idea.
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Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place
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