profoundly and permanently shaped my view of the medical system
I signed on here at Free Republic just as the Terri Schiavo threads were ending, and so I never joined in the fun.
But I know they were brutal. Vicious.
Lots of arguing back and forth.
Never forget.
Twenty years ago this summer, I was dealing with two sick cats, one of which had a serious digestive problem the vet said was an enlarged esophagus. He was born with it, although the symptoms didn’t get worse until he was about 11 years old. He couldn’t keep anything down and had lost a considerable amount of weight. My other cat at the same time was diagnosed with cancer of the nasal passage. I ended up putting them both down on the same day, because as the vet asked me, “Would you rather do them both together, or come back in another month, and go through it all again?” Before the decision to put my cat with the digestive problem down, the vet told me that the last thing they could try was putting a feeding tube in the cat. I immediately thought of Terri Schiavo, and how they had removed her tube so she could die, but now a vet was mentioning putting a feeding tube in my cat. I immediately rejected the idea. I never would have put my cat or myself through that procedure.
Medically Assisted Death the rage nowadays in New Zealand, Canada the UK.
But more is on the way in Keir Starmer’s UK medically assisted suicide...
I don’t recall who it was but there was a national, conservative radio host who argued that the husband just may be carrying out Teri’s wishes, which is a true statement but what I found hard to swallow is that starvation was the method of execution. You can bet every bleeding heart would have cried bloody murder had it been someone on death row.
If they wanted her to die, why the hell didn’t they inject her with chloroform? Dehydration is one of the most agonizing ways to die, and I pray that she was not conscious when they pulled the plug. I hold Jeb! responsible for letting this happen, and if Jeb! had gotten the presidential nomination, he would not have gotten my vote.
Thanks Morgana for posting this. I would have missed it. George Bush was the strongest man in the world,(sarc) but he was unable to save Terri./s Same with his loser brother Jeb, the Governor of Florida at the time.
It was sickening. God saw what happened. God saw.
This was the most abhorrent disturbing cases I can remember.
Her “husband” just wanted her dead, and horrifically would NOT allow her parents to take her, and care for her!
After this case, I truly saw the most base human beings imaginable!
Makes me wanna vomit !!!!!
Battle for the ages here back then
Whew!
bttt