Feeding tube removed from comatose woman at center of long-running legal battle

Associated Press ^ | 10-15-03

[MarMema]

A recent writing in the New England Journal of Medicine says it is costing us between 1-7 billion yearly to support about 10,000 patients in PVS.

[don-o]

I'll talk about the one thing - And if I were as close to Terri as millions are, I would go to jail to try to save her.

In fact, my wife said that I shoud get on the road tonight, and do it. She is right. I should do it. But, then I would be in jail 700 miles from home.

If I were in jail in my home town, that is doable. But, 700 miles is a long way from home.

Looks like we have forgotten that silly rhetoric..."our lives, our fortunes,...etc.

Welcome to the end.

[shhrubbery!]

I am hoping for a miracle. What would happen if Terri screamed "feed me?" Would the hospice staff be required legally adn ethically to accomodate her?

Some of the videos on Terri's website show Terri trying to vocalize. (See section called "Audio Visual Files.")

But if she's been "sedated" in order to keep her "peaceful" as she dies, as I heard earlier today, she probably would not be able to say anything.

[MarMema]

America has become a nation of good Germans.

YOU are so very correct. Please read some of the stories on my FR page to see how far gone we are. Terri is far from the first and this is very routine.

Binding and Hoche have won the war.

[spectre]

Hi Bell.

The operative word is "within" 14 days. Maybe the 14 days makes it sound more natural? It will be sooner rather than later.

sw

[MarMema]

Rescue in works

Will be interesting to see if anything comes of this...

[Conservative til I die]

There are people of good will on both sides of this issue

No, there really aren't. Anyway you slice it, those supporting euthenasia, assisted suicide, and yanking the plug on anyone whose condition makes others feel uncomfortable is evil, no matter how you slice it.

[sarasmom]

Floriduh voter says hello.
I just returned from the vigil in Pinellas Park outside of the Hospice.
I would guess about twenty or so people were there when we arrived at 7:00.People came and went, the number seemed to remain about the same for the hour and a half that I was there.
All the media's remote vans were in attendance.
As were the local police, who now guard the entrance to the facility.

[GregoryFul]

Why? Our media is focused on whether or not the girl that Kobe had intercourse with had other relations as evidenced her "panties". These small minded, smarmy cruds! Investing "million$" in the pursuit of whether or not a discovered hair in her panties was Caucasian or Negroid. Fatuous creeps! All the while giving timid, passing, incidental, belated coverage to the obvious, official, government sanctioned murder of a powerless person.

[Conservative til I die]

I only know what I would want if I was laying comatos for 13 years. Her soul may already be in heaven, just maybe?

Please stop. Just stop. People who are alive, their souls are here, on earth, still in their living bodies. Stop trying to justify supporting murder.

[MarMema]

Keep posting info about the guards here. You never know, some Canadians might show...

[First Amendment]

Her primary neurologists calls her a miracle saying that if he didn't know for a fact that her MRI's were hers he would never believe that he was looking at the same child who came to him so ill as an infant.

Yet more evidence, if needed, that:

A) The body is a miracle designed by Supreme Intelligence

B) The actual self is a soul inhabiting the body, the brain is a tool of the soul, not the source of consciousness. So the soul can work wonders, even if the brain/tool isn't perfect.

[katnip]

20 people!!?!

That's all? Don't people down there realize what's happening? Oh my God.

[MarMema]

Someone called in to a local conservative talk show this afternoon, my husband said. Had a 5 year old whose head was kicked in by a horse. Was told the child would never awaken, etc.

Kid is in college now, second year.

[sweetliberty]

"and common sense to know when to draw the line"

Which seems to have gone dormant, doubtless due to lack of exercise, in a great number of people.

[Conservative til I die]

This is part of a larger question which is "How much effort and expense should be devoted to prolonging lives which without intervention would have ended naturally long before?"

Babies can't feed themselves. Cancer patients can't live without the intervention of doctors via surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Children with severe retardation can't take care of themselves and would most likely die if left to their own devices.

Is there some moral difference between these people?

I'm finding it funny that certain conservatives (not addressing you specifically here) call themselves pro-life and support giving children with severe disabilities (who might otherwise be aborted) a chance at life, yet once they become infirm want to usher them out as quickly as possible.

[don-o]

Feeding tubes are different.

Give that man a

Big Ceegar

It is a common trait in all socities I have read of, that hospality to travellers is a given.

That is before the sad 20th century.

[MarMema]

They need the official PVS dx to kill her, of course.
Without it they risk the losses the right-to-kill movement took with Michael Martin and Robert Wendland.

[MVV]

MURDER! I want this judge disbarred (sp)! He is a disgrace, and I am not too happy with Gov. Bush either. This is criminal, I wouldn't treat my labrador like this, a total disgrace.