[TAdams8591]

TERRI IS NOT BRAINDEAD, PVS OR IN A COMA!

[TXBubba]

I was rather young when this happened. I remember hearing the name. It sounds like they did the right thing. Did the article say they ever thought about not feeding Karen?

[Borges]

Karen would have been 51 years old next week.

Karen would have been 51 today.

[Bluebird Singing]

A nasogastric feeding IS a tube that goes through a nostril of the nose, down the esophagus to the stomach. Terri's tube was inserted through the abdomen to the stomach. Different routes, same purpose. So Karen lived with a feeding tube for 10 years after being taken off life support until she died a natural death.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Karen was never on a feeding tube. She never had a feeding tube placed in her. She was fed through the nasogastric feeding."

Same thing as a feeding tube-only through her nose.
Terri has exhibited the ability to take liquids and soft food without aspiration, something Karen Ann Quinlan could not.
It will be a cold day in hell when the MSM understands and honestly reports the facts of this case.

[Lion in Winter]

I always thought how ironic it was that the Quinlans thought they did the right thing by taking their daughter off the respirator... fought hard to get it done... they thought it would kill her.... but low and behold.... SHE LIVED 10 more years.

Then, I read in this article that Mrs. Quinlan grieved during that entire 10 years while her child LIVED after the respirator was removed... she called it dying for 10 years.... and then, grieved after her child died.

It is a strange story.

And, just think Terri was upset at her friend who made a crass joke about Karen Quinlan AFTER she died.

The testimony of that friend, that said Terri stated about Quinlan," where there is life there is hope" was not allowed by Judge Greer because he thought Quinlan died when Terri was 11 not 21. A child of 11 would not have an opinion which could influence a court.

What a pity.. the opinion was from an adult Terri and it STILL did not matter.

[freekitty]

I am not sure anyone really knows what they want except, of course, to live, right up to the point of death. That's human nature. And we certainly don't want to be murdered.

Maybe that is why Terri is fighting so hard. She is a fighter and I think that is good.

[Former Military Chick]

PING

[GeekDejure]

I must admit that I am thoroughly and completely bamboozled
regarding Judge Greer's authority.

It appears that Greer is Probate Judge... which is to say, he has
authority to oversee the distribution of my late Gramma's china
and silverware, etc.


However... from where and how does he have the power and
uthority to prevent a poor dying woman from taking a sip of
water ???????????