Posted on 03/20/2005 9:03:19 AM PST by XR7
A note to the news media: Stop lying about Terri Schiavo!
I have a message for the media: Stop, already! Just stop it!!Stop saying that Terri Schiavo is "a brain-dead woman being kept alive solely on life support." She is not. She's a disabled Florida woman, who is now being murdered by medical personnel who have removed her feeding tube.
Aaarghh!!! Tell the truth! Stop saying this is about her right to die. Watch closely at the words coming out of this keyboard: T-E-L-L T-H-E T-R-U-T-H.
Terri Schiavo is not at all comatose. She is not at all on life support. She does not have a breathing tube or a respirator. She simply has been receiving her food and water — something everyone in existence needs to survive — through a tube.
What's more, though she is disabled, she probably could eat by herself — it's just too much trouble for hospital personnel to try to feed her by hand.
That's the key element here: Terri is inconvenient. She's especially inconvenient to her husband, Michael, for several reasons — not the least of which is that he's living with another woman and has children by her. Can anyone seriously trust he is operating in her best interest?
Tell the truth. The case of Terri Schiavo doesn't represent the right to die. It represents the right to live.
When murderers are sentenced to death, it comes as a result of a jury or judge passing sentence on a defendant who is sitting before them. One who has had the right to make a defense, to call witnesses and to testify for themselves, if they so choose.
But Terri Schiavo, this woman who has been incapacitated for more than a decade, has never had the right to do any of that. What's more, Judge George W. Greer, the Florida judge who seems bent on ending her life — who has more than once ordered her food and water removed — has never even seen Terri Schiavo in person.
Never seen her in person! It is inconceivable that a judge would pass judgment on a felon without ever having seen the defendant.
But then, that's the point, isn't it? If I am to believe the mainstream media — either this is about Terri's "right to die" or she, in some sense, deserves to die. After all, she's got no "quality of life," right?
Wrong. Terri is not a criminal defendant. She committed no crime. She is innocent. Her sole "crime" — and I say that with all the irony I can muster — is that she is disabled.
If anything, this case is about the rights of the disabled.
Make no mistake, "quality of life" and comfort are not the prime considerations for living, any more than parenting is about spending "quality time" with kids. Forget quality time. If you don't spend "quantity time" with children, that's when they appear to suffer, if we are to believe the research. And if a disabled person is going to be killed because he or she is "inconvenient," let's stop talking about his or her quality of life. The quality of life while being starved and dehydrated to death is nonexistent.
Let's talk about the death process for Terri if her feeding tube is not reinserted. After three or four days, she will have lost weight and will have begun to lose normal body secretions. Her mouth will begin to look dry and her eyes will appear sunken. She will look thinner because her body tissues will have lost fluid. Her heart rate will gradually go up, and her blood pressure will gradually go down.
Five to 10 days from now, her alertness will decrease markedly. Breathing will become irregular with periods of very fast and then very slow breathing.
From day 10 until death — first coma, then kidney function will decline and toxins will begin accumulating in her body. Those toxins will cause her respiratory muscles to fail. Then multiple organ systems will begin to fail from lack of nutrition.
Then, and only then, she will die.
Sure. You're right, mainstream media. That's exactly what Terri has a "right" to. That's exactly what she would have wanted.
Excuse me while I vomit.
LINK to article: http://family.org/cforum/fnif/commentary/a0035918.cfm
ahok.
tell 'er we miss 'er.
I have.
She gave me the 'Gaz' stare.
tell 'er I give 'er the Gir leer.
I didn't see her in earlier.. guess where she was at way earlier this morning?
That is an "assumption"....not fact, because it can only be verified by having an MRI ......which Michael would not allow. If it were....."filled with spinal fluid", Terri would NOT have any awareness of her surroundings nor have any ablility to talk.
I don't know why you didn't have the guts to post this on the thread. I cleaned it up a little but I thought the whole forum should see your wonderful take on Terri and life.
It proves to me that I was right, your life isn't worth living. If I had to live it I would endure the pain of being you because life is precious. You obviously don't value life so I guess you are just too gutless a coward to end the horror of it.
Don't FReepmail me again.
No doubt, he was trying to get Michael out of their lives. Hoping that if he found some nice woman, he'd go ahead and divorce Terri and leave. Too bad Michael didn't do that.
C'mon, don't you think the world knows it already?
(I get it: he doesn't think anyone knows yet.)
Nobody would volunteer to live as Terri Schiavo does. I mean, duh.
But we don't kill people just because they are disabled.
Life yes!PVS no
You have to understand; to me your POV is the emotional bleeding heart POV.
It's based entirely on how you feel and completely lacks any grounding in reality.
If it was you wouldn't have falsely assumed that I was upset and you wouldn't
have gone off like a 4th of July rocket.
I don't know what makes you think that being in a PVS is horrible for the person in it but this isn't PVS.
agreed
Keep your rose colored glasses on. and everything in this world will be just so wonderful.19 judges and 3 supreme court judges must all be wrong about Terri including the one who sat in with her while they tried the balloon trick,and all the doctors and the MRI are all wrong too yep maybe another 15 years might help,time to let her go to a better place. - bikerman
You are one sorry excuse for a human being. Even a nutless wonder like you doesn't deserve to starve to death though. You just hang tight with the lies you've got about 19 judges and 3 Supreme Court judges and all that horse hockey. What else have you got?
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