I think the people who keep posting these 450,000 posts about Schiavvo have already tried and convicted her husband without giving him any benefot of the doubt.
Some day many of them will face the torture of taking away feeding tubes or shutting down artificial means of sustaining life to their relatives. This woman is young so they wish to save her . How many Comatose elderly or cancer victims are starved every day when feeding tubes are removed? When you face this with your mother or father how will you feel if your sister or brother accuses you of murder.
He pretty well convicts himself if one reads everything he's said and done. Some day many of them will face the torture of taking away feeding tubes or shutting down artificial means of sustaining life to their relatives. This woman is young so they wish to save her . How many Comatose elderly or cancer victims are starved every day when feeding tubes are removed? When you face this with your mother or father how will you feel if your sister or brother accuses you of murder.
Deliberate starvation and dehydration of someone is murder. Removing food or water from someone who dies of something else before they starve or dehydrate is not murder.
And yes, there are a lot of unacknowledged murderers out there. But it would be better for them to admit that they were conned into doing a very bad thing and seek forgiveness, than for them to pretend that what they did is really "okay".
My Dad died nine months ago of sepsis. It was not only horrific for him, but for those of us who stayed at his side. The infection ravaged every system in his body.
He was dying, and when his liver, and kidneys totally shut down, the doctors, with our agreement, stopped giving him TPN (total parenteral nutriton) through his central line.
Basically, when the calories were spent, so was he.
His cause of death was listed as sepsis.
Terri Schiavo is not dying. She is not in physical pain. If they remove her feeding tube, the cause of her death will not be sepsis, cancer, or some other disease. The cause of her death will be starvation.
I just haven't crossed that line where I think that we should starve, or euthanize those who some my deem inconvenient or undesirable.
Do you mean that we have tried and convicted Schiavo like he and the judge have tried and convicted Terri? I would think that any judge would err on the side of life barring any written evidence to the contrary. Perhaps we are giving Schiavo exactly the same "benefit of the doubt" that he and the judge are giving Terri for the obvious reasons. Since Terri is not dying of cancer or any other terminal disease, your suggestion that any of us who face the situation of making a determination with a dying loved one on life support is NOT comparable. It is NOT Terri's age that bothers us. She is NOT terminal, perhaps could be returned to eating and drinking on her own without the tube IF the judge or her husband would permit any kind of rehab for her. That is what bothers us. This is judicial murder in a manner that would draw a jail sentence for someone who did this to an animal.