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To: NebraskaTrailrider
**Who the *ell says it's your right to 'mercy kill' ANYONE??? Coma or NOT????

With all respect, from what I've read about this case Terri's condition now resulted from a heart attack several years ago. While I'm certainly not saying that doctors ought not do whatever is possible to help someone who has had a heart attack, I am saying that whatever they did was the first intervention in the natural course of events.

None of us knows the mind of the Creator. It's possible that Terri was being called home those many years ago.

I do think that someone ought to try feeding her by mouth, if that's possible. Unless her doctors know that her swallowing reflexes are gone, it seems strange that no one has tried to do that.

13 posted on 10/23/2003 12:37:51 PM PDT by SmokyGeo
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To: SmokyGeo
Unless her doctors know that her swallowing reflexes are gone, it seems strange that no one has tried to do that.

It does seem strange, doesn't it. It's very interesting that Michael has not ALLOWED it to be tried.

22 posted on 10/23/2003 1:10:32 PM PDT by nina0113
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To: SmokyGeo
None of us knows the mind of the Creator. It's possible that Terri was being called home those many years ago.

Perhaps He's changed His mind. :-)

After all, even if Terri ever said, "No tubes for me," she might have changed her mind, once she actually found herself disabled. Many other people have decided they wanted to live, once they were disabled. (Sometimes they've been killed, even though they expressed a desire to live on as a disabled person, but that's another story.)

Even if Terri once heard the Creator's call to join Him and she ignored it, He sure is mightily supporting her will to live.

I think our Creator is glad we are holding this discussion, and He knows we wouldn't bother holding it if Terri weren't here.

25 posted on 10/23/2003 5:29:15 PM PDT by syriacus (D. Bushnell (Schiavo's lawyer) Priest's visit to Terri would disturb medical procedures going on.)
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To: SmokyGeo
Unless her doctors know that her swallowing reflexes are gone, it seems strange that no one has tried to do that.

With all due respect, it sounds as though you are a little late to the party. There have been literally dozens of threads about Terri, with mountains of information. I have spent literally hours in the last ten days or so reading voluminous amounts of information. I suggest that if you want to know the background of this situation you do the same.

Her so-called husband, and legal guardian, has FORBIDDEN *ANY* rehabilitative therapy for years, up to and including *ANY* tests to see if she can swallow. It is shameful, horrible, inhumane, cruel, and I have no idea why it is legal.

29 posted on 10/23/2003 10:31:43 PM PDT by First Amendment
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