[Jim Noble]

Nurse Aignes admits Terri Schiavo had feelings!!!!!

So what?

If she didn't, then kill her?

This case has always been about whether or not it is OK to kill brain-damaged people, if their brain damage is severe enough.

The debate over whether or not Terri Schiavo had "PVS" or not has the killers licking their chops.

She had profound, severe brain damage. It was not going to improve.

What you call it, which degree of severity you apply to it, is of no significance-UNLESS YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIEW THAT ONCE IT IS BAD ENOUGH, HOWEVER DEFINED, THAT KILLING THE PERSON IS OK.

Do you think severely brain damaged humans who do not have feelings should be killed?

[Halls]

I don't think anyone with brain damage should be killed! It is God's decision when life ends, not man!

[Sterlis]

I think that the intention is to show that yet ANOTHER chit should have been added to the considerable list of evidence which should have been considered by the court - but never was.

The "who dies" question was never really on the table in the court case. That question was and is a major part of the subtext of all activities surrounding the case though.

[ducdriver]

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What you call it, which degree of severity you apply to it, is of no significance-UNLESS YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIEW THAT ONCE IT IS BAD ENOUGH, HOWEVER DEFINED, THAT KILLING THE PERSON IS OK.

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Thank you. This needs to be pointed out over and over! They want to define the "life not worth living". That must never be done again.

[tutstar]

Joni Earekson Tada pointed out that you always hear mention of "if the patient can recover" as if recovering to your previous 'normal' state should be the prerequisite for you living.

[bookworm100]

It looks like starving people to death is a common occurrence.

Fox News reports:

“In 2003, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the National Center for Health Statistics (search) reports that 146,000 procedures were performed to insert permanent feeding tubes into patients. According to the Brain Injury Association, there are between 35,000 and 40,000 people diagnosed with being in a persistent vegetative state — the same diagnosis that Terry Schiavo’s parents dispute.

“It’s not an uncommon occurrence,” said Jon Radulovic, vice president of communications for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (search). Radulovic said that anecdotal evidence culled from doctors, families and other health care professionals confirms that “thousands and thousands” of patients are removed from life support each year.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151862,00.html

[El Gato]

Do you think severely brain damaged humans who do not have feelings should be killed?

I think the point being made was that Terri did not fit the *legal* definition that was used to allow her to be starved to death, ie being in a "persistent vegetative state" and not the rightness or wrongness of that law.