Posted on 10/16/2003 12:12:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 04/21/2004 9:00:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - The parents of a severely brain-damaged woman and others fighting to keep her alive stepped up the pressure on Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene in the case Thursday.
The feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive was removed Wednesday, culminating a decade-long legal fight between her parents and her husband. Doctors say she will live as long as two weeks without it.
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Only one point of view is acceptable to most of the flaming posters.
If you disagree, you are "evil."
LOL, this has to be the funniest post I've seen here in quite awhile. Check up on the facts of this case before you throw any sympathy toward this monster. My God, he won't even allow Terri's mother in the room as her daughter is dying, the SOB.
Why doesn't someone go in and put a pillow over her face, and suffocate her to death?
After all, she is supposedly just a vegetable right now, wasting money, taking up a hospital bed.
Why not save the money and free up the bed, as soon as possible?
Something stops us. Something tied to our humanity.
And how it gets lost in the transition between smothering her and starving her to death befuddles, saddens, and nauseates me.
We even made Timothy McVeigh's execution as fast and humane as possible. She doesn't get that, though, in order to somehow protect us from the fact that society is basically doing the same thing, for the same reasons, as if we went into her room and smothered her. By changing it to passively 'allowing' her to starve herself, we delude ourselves to think we are not actively killing her.
How tragic.
I hope and pray that YOU don't ever end up like Terri! But if YOU do I hope that people show more compassion for YOU than YOU seem to have for other people!!!
This is a perfect example. After having watched some close relatives go through this, I asked my family (and they asked me) to not allow them to be artificially kept alive, if any of us got to a vegetative state, beyond any hope of recovery. I know first-hand what such measures do, and what the ultimate conclusion will still be. None of us (in my family) want to be brought so low...
The husband likely put her in this condition.
That is for a court of law to decide. You are making assumptions.
He is now obstructing justice. Do you think it's a good presidence to have on the books to allow a criminal to be in charge of the evidence.
If he is responsible, then it's very unlikely that anything new will be found at an autopsy, that hasn't already been determined by CAT scans, MRIs and the like. Again, you're making assumptions.
You obviously have not read ONE of the threads and links about Terri. I suggest you get to it; you're embarassing yourself here.
Nope. NOT embarrassed in the slightest. I ask an honest question, and I'm attacked for asking it??? And for the record, no, I haven't bothered to read the previous threads, since (as I already explained) I don't get the disconnect from reality that seems to have befallen all of the breathless, emotional participants on this subject.
I ask again, why???
Are you referring to people who don't understand the reality of the situation - LIKE YOU??
LOL... Yes, of course!!! The emotionalism I inadvertantly tapped into, almost makes it seem as if I were on the DU website, instead of FR. Ironic, how emotions and facts are sometimes diametric opposites... I ask why, and I'm blasted with outrage. (((smirk))) Methinks this thread is long on "feeling her pain," and short on much else.
For example, all the judges who have seen this case have sided with the husband.
A columnist explains why:There is a another point of view:
"I don't think it is widely appreciated just how damaged her brain is," said Walker, an internist, who has followed the case closely by reading the public record.Schiavo's cerebral cortex, he said, is mostly gone. It was destroyed by the loss of oxygen she suffered when she had a heart attack 13 years ago. Once gone, the cortex cannot grow back, Walker said. The space it once occupied in Schiavo's skull is now filled with spinal fluid.
"The cortex does all our thinking," he said. "Some people argue that it's responsible for personhood. Without a cortex, you can't think, feel, have consciousness."
Schiavo is "awake but not aware," Walker said. Parts of her brain that control reflexes and other basic bodily functions still work. So she can sleep, breathe, blink and make the other moves that fuel the faith of those who seek to save her.
Her lack of consciousness is so complete that, according to Walker, if her feeding tube were to be removed from her stomach, Schiavo would not suffer. His language is chilling; the picture he leaves, almost unimaginable.
"She cannot perceive thirst or hunger. She doesn't have the brain structures necessary for that kind of perception."
Are you going to answer the question???
Instead of ranting on this thread, why don't you go and read the links which would easily educate you. The answer to the above statement will be found there as well, but I'll give you a clue. The courts have never investigated him. And yes, we WOULD like the courts to decide. But if they kill Terri, he has demanded her body be cremated immediately. Whoops.....no victim, no evidence. Ya know, I'm TIRED of trying to explain this to you. GO EDUCATE YOURSELF AND QUITE WASTING OUR TIME.
VIKING KITTIES, AHOY! Where are the VIKING KITTIES? Help help help, I can't bear to read such a horrible post, dear Lord in heaven.
So what we're looking at, is a case where the physical body simply doesn't know the brain is dead, and it's operating on a strictly autonomic level...
So, again, why the outrage???
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