[sinkspur]

This man is simply dying slowly, and, with those ulcers to the bone, very painfully. He should be allowed to go peacefully.

His family says "no." Why shouldn't they get the same consideration that the Schindlers got?

[GOP_Proud]

< His family says "no." Why shouldn't they get the same consideration that the Schindlers got? >

This issue is not about what the family wants. It's about killing someone who is clearly alive and functioning, but disabled. A person who is brain-dead and on a ventilator is not. Here is the distinction:

I am fighting for Terri because Terri is not PVS and can live "with a disbility"...NOT and I repeat, NOT because her family wants her to live.

A person who is brain-dead and on a ventilator is not the same thing no matter what the family issue is.

Bottom line is, I am not siding with ANY family here. I'm looking at the patient. These are 2 entirely different circumstances.

[From many - one.]

Because, ultimately, doctors do decide on appropriate treatment or we'd have hospitals filled with living corpses bacuse so may families just can't let go.

Flatline...just keep shocking
No breathing....ventilator

etc.

I know of a young intern who had seven people die on his first night... he wouldn't stop with procedures... finally taken aside by senior staff and was taught that there are times to let go... that no one could have saved these seven and that they shouldn't have the dying process delayed because of his pride.

It's a hard lesson, but there *are* times when we must let go. Forcing that decision on families is an unnecessary cruelty.

[From many - one.]

I can't say it any better than post 61 by GOP_PROUD

[jwalsh07]

His family says "no." Why shouldn't they get the same consideration that the Schindlers got?

Because in the Schiavo case the state has ordered the starvation death of a citizen. In this case, the family is free to remove their family member and take care of him as they see fit.