Couldn't they have at least done the blessing part of it, perhaps a touching
to the lips?

Beth t.

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Subject: Re: Deny Last Rites TO Terri Schiavo??

i should hope not. maybe this is just more confusion.

--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> I'd read that she'd been denied communion while the feeding tube was
> still in place because of the risk that she'd choke, but denying her
> last rites is inhuman; even if she had a written advance directive in
> place, it wouldn't violate it.
>
> Kendall Corbett
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950