Originally posted by lizbud

and if Bush is so concerned about the right to life, why didn't he give death-row inmate Carla Faye Tucker more than 10 minutes consideration and some cheap mockery? "
He was drunk???

Originally posted by Logan
Richard, I rarely disagree with you, but I do this time.......I only refer to my earlier post regarding ering on the side of life, since there are so many questions. The whole thing makes me sad, and yes, I feel it is murder.........
I understand, I have mixed emotions about this...
Part of me says that she should live, but starving her to death is criminal, the other part of me says that she deserves a fate far better than this.


Let me explain!

Back in Year One I used to be a file clerk.

I saw many cases where the volumes of patient charts (who were in our extended care facilities) grew to ENORMOUS proportions..

Take 350 sheets of paper, multiply that by 20 volumes and you get the picture.

In some of those volumes there were photos of bed sores (decubitis ulcers) where you could see the heel bone showing out the back of the poor patients foot from being on their backs for so long, also buttocks elbows and shoulders were open, raw holes in that person's body.

That really sucks because the image haunts you for years....I hadn't thought of them for that long....I'll have to pass on the meat section of the market for a while.....I know that sounds gross, but is something that you can never forget.

Factor in all the infections, germs and God knows what else is lurking in that room that may kill this woman before the courts, lawyers and our government get a grip on what THEY are going to do.

Even a well meaning visitor can touch or breathe something into the air that COULD make this whole case moot.

Plus there is the fact that if may be too late to try and rehabilitate
her. Years of her not using her limbs have made physical therapy
a tough job.

12 years is a long time to spend, trapped inside your body and mind. There is no way to tell if she hasn't had some sort of catastrophic breakdown!!

The one thing we will never know is what her feelings are-

Sometimes the sounds of a tempest in the teapot drown out the voices of the people stuck in the storm.



It's not easy.