I was gonna guess it was you with the spoon. LOL
They starve her only because they haven't enough courage of their convictions nor respect for her to simply shoot her and end it.
I'm confused. Why did she take a spoon addressing Jeb to D.C.? She should have gone to Tallahassee.
It proves it is not the same at all as a do not resucitate request or "pulling the plug".
If they "pull the plug" in a case like this, the person may not die.
In this case pulling the plug is removing her feeding tube.
If she can eat with a spoon (she can) she would not die.
Yet the order is to not feed her in any manner.
That's murder straight out.
That's like taking someone off a respirator and then smothering them for good measure if they coninue to breathe.
There must be intellectual honesty in that this is overt euthanasia, not allowing nature to take its course in a terminal illness or machine assisted organ function.
If one still for it, then fine. Just say it honestly without the lies and euphemisms.
Like I always say, people can smell evil. They just know somethings not right.
I wonder if she had to buy a seat for the spoon. :)
Demonstrators Mary Porta, kneeling, and others pray for Terri Schiavo, Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005, outside the hospice, where Terri resides, in Pinellas Park, Fla. Under increased security and with fading hopes, Terri Schiavo's parents asked supporters to return home to spend Easter Sunday with their families as the couple's severely brain-damaged daughter went a ninth day without food or water. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)
When I was in school, there was a classmate who had a brain tumor and they did surgery and she ended up in a coma (worse than Terri sounds). They brought her home from the hospital, never calling her a vegetable, articles in the paper about her from time to time, and the family lived in a very humble little house.
Her father built her a special bed so they could take care of her more easily (no medical specialty companies here then or they couldn't afford it) and they finally moved to California where she died in Los Angeles in 1957, about six years later. When I think of that family and their devotion, I want to weep.
If anybody would ever have suggested not feeding her and letting her starve and dehydrate to death (somebody fed her somehow, they probably had feeding tubes in the 50's), people would have been shocked beyond belief. Nobody ever expected her to recover, and I don't ever remember any prayers because nobody I knew had any faith that prayer helped people although almost everybody went to church back in those days. She was such a sweet, quiet, pretty girl and had a dignity beyond her years.
Plus, I'm getting older and have mental health issues, my son's wife's whole family has Huntington's so that means my grandson may end up with it and his mother, the grandmother already has serious symptoms and they throw her out of bars because they think she is drunk, and my daughter was in a bad accident and can't keep a job but gets turned down for social security. She has trouble with her memory, and some brain damage along with hardware in her body still. She has to work at minimum wage jobs because the mental health people will not sign off so she can do what she was trained to do, and she has a Masters Degree.
I wonder which one of us will be next if 70 percent of the American people think some people aren't worthy to live now in March 2005. I think her memory and my family is what drives me in this case to fight as best I can for Terri. The best I can do now is have my own little silent vigil like some of the rest of you are doing, resigned to the inevitable.
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