“Terri Schindler was killed through starvation and dehydration. This is one of the most painful and unpleasant ways to die”
I am not arguing that the methodology used to do this was absolutely wrong and horrific. I never understood the way the the anti death penalty people who work so hard to get rid of drug concoctions that kill in minutes because they are “inhumane, and maybe painful”, were silent during this. Yes I was horrified that they went about this using starvation and dehydration, and that should have never ever been allowed. My main point though, was that the decision to do it in first place would have been a welcome relief to me (and I think anybody)...imagine yourself completely bandaged head to toe so that you could not move, speak, or communicate in any way. After just a few days you would be going batty, now imagine multiple years in that state. Yes, absolutely, they should have used a method that was quick, and painless, and in that part of the story, that was beyond a tragedy.
If that ever happened, then would someone hook me up permanently to Free Republic so I may watch you guys be yourselves and just have a good laugh daily!!
What moral relativism!
Who are you to judge someone’s quality of life? That’s no different than the eugenicists at the Nazimdeath camps. What’s more is your depiction of Terri’s situation isn’t even close to reality. Get your facts straight.
So lets get this straight: Your problem is with the methodology, not the fact that an American citizen, not guilty or convicted of any crime, was executed by the state? So death by lethal injection would’ve been A-ok with you?
Ok gotcha. By the way, you’re on the wrong forum. FreeRepublic is pro-life.
So you think helpless people who cannot speak for themselves should be executed.
Just so it’s clear to eveyrone what you are saying.
I understand your thinking, I used to think that way too. I talked to my mother about it because my mother was in a accident and in a coma not expected to live or to ever wake up for 28 days.
My mother told me she was aware on some level; she knew when her mother was with her, she got to “know” certain nurses that were kind spoken. The thing she told me that I will never forget is that she had no awareness of the passage of time, she was in a fog like state and said the things like not being able to get up and do things, all the things you are concerned about- the awareness of that wasn’t there, she just didn’t even think about that type of thing. When my mother woke up she said she had no idea how long she had been in a coma, hours, days, weeks- no idea.
Three years ago my grandson was in a coma for almost 3 days and I asked him what it was like, he told me pretty much the same thing my mother said. He knew on some level that his mom and aunt were with him all the time, and knew hubby and I were there but were not there all the time. He is the most active boy ever, he is not a couch potato at all- he said he never thought about not being able to do anything- just never occurred to him.
My hubby was blown up by a landmine in Vietnam and told me he remembered floating up in the air, thought that was weird, didn’t know what was happening- then pretty much nothing for days. He did remember some awareness that things were going on around him but he said he never thought of what he couldn’t do, how bad he was hurt or anything like that until he was fully awake days later.
There was a woman in my state that was comatose and declared in a vegetative state for somewhere around 20 years and woke up- it was in the news for a while. She said she had no idea how much time had passed, to her it was like going to sleep and waking up the next morning. She did have some awareness of her family and music they played for her. In fact what she had a hard time with when she did wake up was that her kids had grown up and her mother, sister, etc. had aged.
It is a different state of mind, it seems it is not what we can relate to, people that are unconscious or in a coma don’t seem to experience the things that most of us think it would be like.