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Hannity says it's "unimaginable" for vets to get anything but "all the treatment to end of life" -- what if they disagree?

August 24, 2009 9:48 pm ET

From the August 24 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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Fox News, NRO, Limbaugh run with "death book" smears

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    • Author by WhatImlost (August 24, 2009 9:56 pm ET)
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      Ah now I understand why Hannity appolgized for his lie in the other clip from tonight....so he could start another lie with a clear mind. (the book he's referring to WAS NOT suspended by the Bush admin)
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    • Author by knowlies (August 24, 2009 10:04 pm ET)
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      what if they disagree?


      They can't. We'll shove that breathing tube and feeding tube and any other tube we can think of, right down their throats so we can feel morally superior to those death worshipping lib's.
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    • Author by tbone (August 24, 2009 11:08 pm ET)
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      We protect you before you were you (born); we protect you to your last gasping choking breath. This lastest cause celebre of the far right is the ultimate hypocricy. These lovers of Christ, these true believers in the death/resurrection/afterlife, these revelers in apocalyptic visions and the Rapture, these penultimate Zionists (to support their vision of the End of Days) are The most CHICKEN SH*T hypocrites I can imagine when it comes to their own mortality.

      Christ on a stick, let someone suggest a Living Will (which deals with incurable and intractable conditions anyway) and it's Soylent Green and Logan's Run time.

      You're a bunch of PANSIES. For me, I'll be grateful if I make it to 78 (avg. male life expectancy) - if I do, every day after that is gravy.
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      • Author by magnolialover (August 25, 2009 8:18 am ET)
           
        Same here. Also considering that heart disease runs in my family, I might not even make it that far.

        I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm 36, and my wife is 34, we have a legally binding living will already between us. Why? Just in case. It's nice to be prepared (and it was easy for us to do since her dad is a lawyer).

        They are trying to make this relevant and what I would consider, necessary step, into some sort of euthanasia paradise. Which just ain't even close to the truth.
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        • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 25, 2009 9:53 am ET)
             
          35 and 37, and we also have living wills. Everyone should, and you have to be an idiot to mock them, or think they're some kind of evil librul plot.

          The debate has gone awry. It needs to come back to reality.
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    • Author by dmhack (August 24, 2009 11:21 pm ET)
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      Do you think if we monitored Sean's brain activity we'd find any?
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      • Author by magnolialover (August 25, 2009 8:18 am ET)
           
        I'm shaking my Magic 8-Ball, and it says...

        "Signs point to no."

        The Magic 8-Ball HAS SPOKEN!
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (August 24, 2009 11:34 pm ET)
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      This is coming from a rich kid making millions and who recently volunteered to be waterboarded for military families charity and refused to do so when given the chance.
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    • Author by RKAllen (August 24, 2009 11:55 pm ET)
         
      I knew it!
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      • Author by RKAllen (August 25, 2009 12:40 am ET)
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        To make an example of how absurd the notion of what Sean Hannity is suggesting:

        I am a dying veteran of the United States Military. I am approached by a dairy farmer who claims that he can cure my disease with the milk from a magic cow. The cost is one hundred thousand dollars per fluid ounce and I am going to need to drink my body weight in the stuff to be fully cured. I can even get doctors that say, "couldn't hurt as a treatment so it is worth a try." I ask that the V.A. pay for these treatments.

        I am going to guess that Mr hannity would consider this an expense that SHOULD be spared.

        If no expense is to be spared then these approaches should also be considered and covered by the V.A.

        - Holistic Medicine
        - Shamans
        - Leaches (No, not you Sean)
        - Drilling holes in peoples heads to let out the evil spirits
        - Religous ceremonies like exorcisms
        - searches for the real Fountain of Youth
        - research into the medicinal properties of unicorn horn and dragon scale
        - stasis pods to keep the body preserved until they CAN find a cure

        (seriously though... I want my DAMN stasis pod!!! Where is my stasis pod, Obama!?!)
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        • Author by ex-punk (August 25, 2009 1:40 am ET)
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          You got an idea there. How about letting the Ron Paul supporters give Sean a chase down the street with a black and decker cordless and see if they can get those evil spirits out of his head? I'm sure Sean will be thankful if he recovers.
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    • Author by naip (August 24, 2009 11:58 pm ET)
         
      You are all SHEEPLE who will soon be led to the gas chambers with promises that you are helping others with your death. And when you stand before what ever god you may have, be it the diety of big screen TVs and free cable or the gathering of dictators for camp fire fun. You all come to relize that your trust that you put in the goverment to run your life was as misguided as the dribble that you post.
      North Amercian Indian Power thoes who won't stand for themselves should sit with the weak.
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    • Author by mi5terpurple (August 25, 2009 1:37 am ET)
         
      God Forbid as a Veteran (which I am) I would want someone other than myself to know exactly what I want in the end! I just don't get it...These stupid government Health Care debates get more and ignorant as time goes on.
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (August 25, 2009 7:22 am ET)
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      These are the same people who just KNEW that Terry Schiavo wanted to be kept alive even though her brain had shrunken to the size of a strawberry and was getting her meals through a tube. Because if she were just allowed to DIE, she'd have to leave her nice hospital bed and be with Jesus, and what could be worse than THAT?
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      • Author by magnolialover (August 25, 2009 8:22 am ET)
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        Not to mention, the members of Congress who subpoened here to come to the Hill, and TESTIFY in her own behalf. Never mind that, as you said, the poor woman's brain had shrunken down to nothing, and that she was in a complete and total vegetative state.

        Turns out, a lot of the talk about Schiavo abusing his wife was just concocted as well. Same as how Terry was getting poor care in her hospice (she wasn't). There were a few people who tried to break into the hospital to "break her out" and to "save her", never mind that if they had tried to move her, she most certainly would have died shortly after.

        Also, the "life loving" Christians who were surrounding the hospice she was at, phoned in bomb and terrorist threats to a local school not even connected with the hospice. They said that if they didn't release Terry, they would take kids hostage, and kill one for every hour that Terry Schiavo was "kept prisoner".

        Good to see how "pro life" these folks were.
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