To: sodpoodle
I think Mr. Schiavo turned down an even larger offer also.
He might not want Terri to recover for fear she will testify against him for attempted murder.
A lot of evidence points to that possibility.
To: unlearner
I think your spot on. IF her P.O.S. husband had any respect for her, he would let the world see her through the press. Till I see Terri actually make some indicative action before the camera, or expressed opinion from her parents, I will believe that it is this woman's will to live. As a U.S Citizen, I should always hope that she too has the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
I watched my parents die difficult deaths from emphasis and leukemia, and I did everything I could to comfort them to their last breath. They left this world when they were called home, part of the living trust called out that there would be no advanced life saving procedures used to extend their lives ( it's sickening when you learn some of the politics of the living dead for the purpose of paying unscrupulous doctors).
If a feeding tube is an advanced life saving support, it should be Terri's decision as to when it time for it to come out.
123 posted on
03/11/2005 7:15:25 PM PST by
Issaquahking
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