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[vicarz]

I just hung up from a woman who wanted to appeal the denial of her hardship transfer application. Her reason for the request: her 15 year old daughter is going to need (insert surgery here) for (insert serious medical problem here). It also turns out the 15 year old kid is about to have a baby...and after talking to her, I'm not sure if it is her first or not. My emotional reaction is to be disgusted with the mother, and that the child might as well be dead. A kid at 15? Not the first? I mean medical problems might just be an attempt by the gene pool to reclaim her to the drain at this point. I'm sure the mother is in great pain, and it's unclear how complacent she was in her daughter's mistakes in life...but...

and congress is trying to pass an act to keep that 13 year vegetable alive in Florida. Oi.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/---corvus/]

jeez.

oh, and i think they should pull the plug. just doesn't seem right. she's dead.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Yeah and the republican congress doesn't give a damn about human life as they are trying to get her wired back to her machine. Her family is disgusting - I wonder if they actually hate her or if they genuinely don't understand the difference between a relative and a corpse.

[tehcas.livejournal.com]

I wish I lived there, so I could wave a sign that says "Kill her now".


Or something else that would poke fun at those who want to keep this prisoner alive in a tortured vegatative state. Euthenasia is a wonderfun thing. Hope is too, but when the odds of winning the lotto exceed that of a miracle cure for some brain dead victim, and playing the lotto is "morally wrong" or whatever...


Think of the people on the waiting list who could use that bed shes taking. People who have a chance at recovery. Is it fair to them?

(boy I sound cold and heartless don't I)

[http://users.livejournal.com/---corvus/]

not at all. you're just being blunt.
it's the cold hard truth, but it IS the truth.