[GO65]

Just something for all of us to think about -- is this picture larger than we currently see it?

i have extremely mixed feelings about this subject, and frankly I don't know all the details so I probably ought not comment - but if there is truly no hope of her recovery, then what service are we doing to her soul by preventing her from entering the next phase of her journey?

[HELLRAISER II]

I agree, the only problem I had with it was the husband waiting 10 years before he mentioned that she wouldn't want to live like this and then starving her to death which I think is inhumane.

[Bluebird Singing]

Are we, as a country, ready to adopt the service of starving and dehydrating the disabled so that they die? She may be brain damaged, but she was not terminally ill and did not belong in hospice.

[najida]

There is a difference between allowing a terminal, dying person to die, and pushing an otherwise healthy person into the next life.

Terri, with care, can live a long time. And not even really heroic care either. Just basic nursing care and a tube feeding. No biggie.

[GovernmentShrinker]

One thing we may accomplish is to get her thoroughly examined by independent doctors, to establish whether there is serious evidence of physical abuse by her husband (there are reports that some now missing records from shortly after her heart attack/brain injury showed numerous broken bones which a doctor believed were consistent with battering). Mr. Schiavo's eagerness to have Terri cremated immediately upon her death, without any autopsy, is suspicious under the circumstances. If this guy is complicit in his wife's brain damage and/or death, he belongs behind bars.

[ClancyJ]

but if there is truly no hope of her recovery, then what service are we doing to her soul by preventing her from entering the next phase of her journey?

Several reasons.

We don't know the condition of her soul - maybe she had not accepted Jesus and would not be on the way to a better place.

We are not God - God determines when it is time for one to leave earth.

There are medical advances all the time - no hope today does not mean no hope next year.

It is her life and we are not the ones to take it away from her - nor is a husband who wants her insurance or medical funds and possibly to keep her condition from being investigated.

She is at the mercy of one who desperately wants her dead. Are we to assist him when his actions have shown that he has never given her therapy to improve her condition.

[LADY J]

" then what service are we doing to her soul by preventing her from entering the next phase of her journey?"

When the Lord is ready for her to come home - nothing we do can change that. In the meantime - we must be merciful to another human being.

[Salvation]

**but if there is truly no hope of her recovery,**

But only God knows the answer to this. There is always hope!