Would You Want To Continue Living Like Terri Schiavo?

None | 10/20/03 | Self

[GOP_Thug_Mom]

ping--post #39

[Catspaw]

Fair enough. If you would not would rather die in such a condition than attempt therapy, that would be your decision to make for yourself. I see nothing to suggest it's the decision Terri would make for herself.

And I made that clear in my first post--that it was a decision I made for myself. I can't make decisions for Terri or anyone else.

[sisterjforteri]

What people are not understanding with Terri's case is there is alot of money at stake here, which was supposed to be used to care for Terri. Then, suddenly, her husband ( who has been living with another woman for the last 7 years and has children with this other woman ) decided to neglect Terri and not give her anymore therapy, etc.. Then, goes to court to have her feeding tube pulled. This guy will then inherit close to one million bucks once Terri passes away. I think if a coupl is married and still faithful to each other and something like this happens where one partner is sick and near death, etc... they should have a living will written up saying that they want to be disconnected from their life support. Terri never had that. It is a he said-she said thing, only Terri cannot voice her opinion. Her parents and siblings want her so-called husband to take the money and leave Terri alone so that they can take care of her, but Terri's husband has been so mean that he won't even allow her priest to visit and give her Communion. To me, it is not a matter of what one wants regarding their life support, etc... It has to do with allowing a royal a------ get away with murder and profit from it besides.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

We do not have a right to demand that others cut off our food and water.

Then write the check out of your own checkbook - don't require me to pay for your theology out of mine.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

No and neither would my husband. We've officially decided on 'no heroics' if something should happen to us. We went thru this with my Grandmother. Thank God she had a Doctor who insisted that she spoke to him on the matter. Half the family could not accept her dying, so she had to suffer for a year before she finally went into a coma and died. It was painful to watch her, and even more painful to hear her long to pass. Her time had come, but they wouldn't allow her to die with dignity.

[GirlyGirl2003]

Sure! Life is rare, and death is eternal. Hang on as long as you can.

[auggy]

"What people are not understanding with Terri's case is there is alot of money at stake here, which was supposed to be used to care for Terri. Then, suddenly, her husband ( who has been living with another woman for the last 7 years and has children with this other woman ) decided to neglect Terri and not give her anymore therapy, etc.. Then, goes to court to have her feeding tube pulled. This guy will then inherit close to one million bucks once Terri passes away. I think if a coupl is married and still faithful to each other and something like this happens where one partner is sick and near death, etc... they should have a living will written up saying that they want to be disconnected from their life support. Terri never had that. It is a he said-she said thing, only Terri cannot voice her opinion. Her parents and siblings want her so-called husband to take the money and leave Terri alone so that they can take care of her, but Terri's husband has been so mean that he won't even allow her priest to visit and give her Communion. To me, it is not a matter of what one wants regarding their life support, etc... It has to do with allowing a royal a------ get away with murder and profit from it besides."

If, all that you say here is true, I definitely agree with you.

[auggy]

" Half the family could not accept her dying, so she had to suffer for a year before she finally went into a coma and died. It was painful to watch her, and even more painful to hear her long to pass. Her time had come, but they wouldn't allow her to die with dignity."

The doctor would have been wise to have had your Grandmother sign a paper with her wishes on it.

Maybe, then she would have not had suffered for a year.

My brother died 9 years ago, with pancreatic cancer. The last 3 days of his life he was hospitalized. He was suffering, even though, he was being loaded down with morphine. Every breath he took the last 3 days, when he exhaled he would groan. This was loud. On the 3rd day of hearing him suffer & groaning, a nurse came in and gave him one last shot of morphine. Apparently, she gave him so much, it took her 20 minutes to inject it. Five minutes after the nurse walked out of the room, my brother died.

Did she overdose my brother on morphine? Probably. If ,she did give him an overdose, she did him and all of his family a favor.

[Moleman]

I would not ever want to live like this and I think my wife would feel the same. This is a very sad story any way you look at it.

[auggy]

Yes, It is very sad. I have watched the videos over and over. Seems to me, like she is aware of what is being said to her. The woman that came in the room and was talking to her , in baby talk, you could see a smile on her face, even in her eyes.

The next video was the man that kept asking her to open her eyes. You could see her, trying, and trying to open them. When, she finally did open them, she opened them as wide as possible, as if to tell the man, there, they are open.

If, what I saw was true, then she pretty much has her mental capacity. In other words she could possibly improve with therapy. She could at least, tell us whether she wanted to live or die.

[gracie1]

I think if I tried to keep my husband alive like this, when he would die, he would come back to haunt me. As for myself, I don't think I would want it.

I think the important lesson in all of this is to make your wishes known to all of your family, and get an advance directive, or living will, wantever applies in your state.

[tob2]

I would not like to live like her at all.