I've read more nonsensical BS about Terri Shievo the past few weeks on FR than any other issue in the nearly 6.5 years I've been aboard this venue. In fact it has become so grotesque it's almost laughable ... a few days ago one thread had her bleeding from her mouth and eyes. Give it up ... let this poor girl die in peace.
And I suppose you prefer to accept George Felos'statement that he has never seen Terri look more beautiful and more at peace than she is as she lies dehydrated and starving to death. Warped view you and he have.
Actually that is what happens when one starves to death as well as the nose. Have you ever seen starvation photos inside Africa?
Michael Schiavo's lawyer, George Felos, denied reports by the parents' lawyers that her tongue and eyes were bleeding.
"She is calm. She is peaceful. She is resting comfortably," Felos said Saturday as four sheriff's deputies stood by to protect him.(morphine besides making death come a little quicker is also for the pain she is suffering).
Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, called that "absurd" and challenged Felos to allow videos and photos to be released, so the public can see Terri's condition. "They're mischaracterizing the condition today, just as they have been...It's sick. It's heinous," he said.
If you have been abroad, perhaps you have not followed the case.
You might take some time to research the case by reading this story....perhaps you may change your mind, perhaps you may not. But this is not laughable. You need to know the history of those that are making these "murderous decisions". Something the foreign press does not!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1372471/posts
March 18, neurologist Dr. William Burke describes how one starves to death:
"A conscious person would feel it [dehydration] just as you and I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucous membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining ... death by dehydration takes 10 to 14 days. It is an extremely agonizing death."
(An important note about the column in the New York Post by Arnold Ahlert from which this is taken: Terri has not been in a comatose state for 15 years. While she has been incapacitated, she has reacted to loved ones around her by following their voices, smiling and moving. It certainly is not helpful for journalists who seem to be on side to get these elementary facts of the case wrong. Even a Fox "babe"(word used by the host not I) being interviewed on a radio/talk show the other day..used the word coma. Terri has not been in a coma. Her organs were functioning and should she had the rehabilitation that the settlement sought by M.Schiavo was to be paid with..well you need to know the history and no one can completely educate you here. You were just too late to class!