Oh, don't worry. Terri will go Home soon, and then America will try her hardest to get back to a routine of some sort.
But deep down, in each of us, yes even you...there will a small nagging "thing", something we'll not be able to put our hands on. But it'll be there. An uncomfortable feeling...wondering if we've done all we could've.
Then....someone YOU, flaglady, or someone I know....will be next. This is far bigger than Terri. Oh yes..far bigger.
I pray for all of us.
Hi all,
I don't even know how this will all shake out but I agree with you, Brad's Gramma. It seems like anyone can sense a change in the whole country. We may've been divided before politically, but this is going to divide us philosophically in a very, very big way. It's like you can feel the country tipping or something - maybe the way the people on the Titanic felt right after they wondered "What was that big scraping sound"
"Then....someone YOU, flaglady, or someone I know....will be next."
We'll all be next, as everyone of us will die one day. Just make sure you have a living will, or a family that all think on the same wavelength about what to do if you end up in a similar situation as Terri Schiavo. Otherwise, you too, might have the pleasure of laying in a bed for the next 15 years, just laying there, and laying there, and laying there, year after year, until your body finally gives up the ghost. How delightful for your relatives to have to see to your upkeep for all those years (or would your shell of an existence be paid for by the taxpayers, via Medicaid?) Otherwise, you could always have your children run through any possible inheritance you may have set up for them, by keeping you hooked up to some artificial means of life.
Maybe it's you who should do some serious thinking, as it could happen to anyone of us; and your family, if it's you, may not like your idea of what the results should be. Hopefully, it won't happen to you, but now the Pope is on a feeding tube, and it's unknown what will happen with him, bless his soul. I'll bet he didn't expect this to be happening either. But, being a very smart man, I'm sure he has left exact instructions as to what to do in such a situation. I suggest you do the same if you haven't already.