The Rev. Jonathan Law, Austin, Minn., is a retired pastor.
Well stated. Unfortunately for Terri, the Felos team of lobbyists, got the Florida State Legislature to change the law to allow that feeding tubes were considered life support.
Another diabolically shameful deed perpetrated on the disabled, handicapped and infirm and their unknowing families.
I am saddened by my good friends who did not take the time to study Terri's Plight but thought instead because the MSM said so, that she was PVS and did not feel any pain whatsoever and that it was the right thing to do.
I was shocked. How can these fine people be my friends. I asked them did they know she could swallow her own saliva? Didn't need suctioning?
Did they know that she could breath on her own, could communicate appropriately when asked questions, perhaps not in our way of doing so, but in her own way?
I asked did they know there were several doctors and nurses who said she was not PVS?
I asked did they know that Terri suffered a history of trauma, bone breakage, spinal cord injury, neck injuries not from sports or car accidents?
I asked if she couldn't feel pain why did they give her morphine?
At that they all said they needed a drink...they really didn't know and felt shamed that they were mislead and lied to by the MSM and their carefully manipulated capricious soundbites.
Are you saying they were not? It's now very clear that they were, or else she'd still be alive.
I asked if she couldn't feel pain why did they give her morphine?
She was given morphine 2 times, once on Thursday, 5 mg and Saterday, 5 mg. The normal dose for mophine for pain is 10 mg every 4 hrs. The reasons she was given morphine were to prevent a siezure she MAY have as a result of organs shutting down. Obviously they were protocol for people in that condition, and of a preventative nature. Cirtainly not for "pain". And as it turns out, unessasary, because Terri wasn't "normal". You need a brain and sense of awareness to feel pain.
Morphene, in normal conditions is given to people on their death beds to relax them; it slows their heart rate and respirations, lowers their blood preasure, and help them along a little. It's protocol.
I was shocked. How can these fine people be my friends. I asked them did they know she could swallow her own saliva? Didn't need suctioning?
Another uneducated speculation. Most people in her condition do not produce saliva and need 'sucktioning'. her mouth was constantly open an dry from her own breathing. The statement that she swallowed buckets of saliva a day is wrong.
Go visit some old people at a care home some day. Take note of the ones who sit tied in their chairs in a daze, with their mouths open. look for drool. Take note that there isn't any. Also take note that there aren't nurses running around 'suctioning' people.
Fanatic: You're starving Terri to death! Why can't you at least give her some morphine to relieve her pain? Please! This is inhumane!
Voice of reason: Because she cannot feel pain. Her cerebral cortex is gone, replaced by spinal fluid.
Fanatic: But, what can it hurt! Why not? Please give Terri morphine! Please!
Voice of reason: All right. Just to please you, we'll do it.
Fanatic: WHY ARE YOU GIVING HER MORPHINE IF SHE CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING??? YOU LIED !!!!