I'm in for $100. The guy is a turd - I just wish he'd take the money and go.
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Thank you for sharing this experience. I tried reading though the thread. The first several posts were compassionate rational responses. Somewhere around 30 posts down it got to be too hateful. I've been exposed to enough evil today to last me a lifetime, so I'm not going to read the rest of the thread. I know that means I'll miss some really good posts, but it also means I won't have to look evil in the eye. Until the next thread.
Thanks for a great post.
--Boot Hill
Thank you very much for posting this story. I don't know what Terri is going through, but I feel very strongly that it isn't my place, or anyone else's, to decide whether her life is worth living, even if she never makes any further medical progress. If she had left written instructions that she wanted to be starved to death, and there was evidence that she understood what that entails, then I could support Mr. Schiavo's position. However, in the light of his considerable conflicts of interest and the lack of any evidence that Terri wanted to die this way, I think it is outrageous that the courts have been willing to accept his recollection as evidence of her wishes. As an attorney, I know that a convicted death row inmate can't give up his appeals and let his sentence be carried out until a court first determines that he is mentally competent to make that decision. There has to be evidence that the inmate understands that he is going to die, that the state is going to kill him, and the reason he is being punished. Surely our courts should require some similar guarantees of trustworthiness before we allow those who are unable to speak for themselves to be denied life-sustaining food and water.
Thank you to Expatguy for allowing you to post his Incredible Story. He clearly states the horrible experience he went thru and how he could hear everything and how he wanted to live and in his case treasures every second of his life. If we could all pass this story onto Our Elected and Judicial Officials. Terri is stuck in a corrupt system and we don't know how many other people are stuck in that same fate.Its not only Michael Schiavo that wants her dead,there are many others it appears. Terri wants to live as Expat points out so clearly. God Bless Terri and save her from her killers.
God bless you for sharing this with all of us.
Dog & Expatguy:
Thank you so much for acting on my request to post this on a thread of it's own.
I see that it has been viewed by over 1,500 people. This has to be a real eye-opener and blessing for many of them.
I note that Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, and many others have had similar stories come to them, and I religiously believe that all these stories of truth are having an effect on the consciousness of our nation. Terri's outrageous ordeal may well be the type of horror which has to take place for our country to come back to a respect for life, but it is extremely important for stories like this to become widely known. It is critical that the "alleged" reaction of Terri when Weller told her she had to cry out to be saved be known, even if there might be some doubt - clearly it is important that doubt be honored.
There have been many stories moving through this land during the past several years that are giving America a chance to respond with a renewed respect for life, at just the time we have a Congress and President who could effectively express this country's attitude about this forevermore.
I pray that the courts uphold their attempts to do so.
Thanks for sharing this.
What an amazing story!
i was pretty much neutral in all this until i say terri's eyes... they are not the eyes of a vegetable. i think she may be in a state similar to yours, which many stroke victims also experience...