Posted on 04/11/2005 3:54:53 PM PDT by CHARLITE
So nobody on a feeding tube should go on living?
Would you like to "live" like Terri Schiavo was?
No. I wouldn't like to have Downs Syndrome, either -- let's start starving all of those people.
It doesn't sound like you have any quarrel with the opinions here, except for some of us not "moving on." Well we're still mourning really, so if you think that's unseemly, it would make sense for you to find another thread.
Ping to self.
Wrong, she stopped eating and drinking and we did nothing about it. She lasted for about a week, and I don't think my family needed your approval.
"she was a cabbage at best."
how unbelievably disrespectful. tch
it's the whole forum. daily.
life goes on.
no, i'm not in disagreement.
however, i do resent the misinformation posted by some. the truth was enough itself.
Ping
****Last week was one of the most painful times of my life. I have never been on such a roller coaster of emotion and I can't seem to get beyond it. That's an admission I'm not proud to proclaim, but it's the truth. For a person who's always ready for "NEXT, one-two-three, GO," . . . I was stricken with a paralysis. My country was in great distress over a situation that caused everyone to lose. The visuals still play clearly in my mind and are more painful than I can express.
This is exactly how I felt.
Yes, it's utterly chilling to see the complete and total blindness to cold blooded murder...it's horrifying. There are actually people who cannot see the evil in this...and I wouldn't want to have a single one of them in any way, shape, or form responsible for my well being. My dear God.
(((((((((((((HUG))))))))))))))))))
Well, I have twice. My stepfather was in a nursing home for 12 years with a feeding tube. Not once did we ever think of pulling it.
My mother had just passed away and my husband's sister (57) went into the hospital and never came out. She was on a respirator and they had to decide "to pull it."
Still, I fought and cried for Terri. She was disabled, not dead.
There is a big difference between a feeding tube and a respirator AND someone who is disabled and someone who has machines doing everything for them.
"There are actually people who cannot see the evil in this...and I wouldn't want to have a single one of them in any way, shape, or form responsible for my well being."
So true.
My husband has my instructions that if I'm only dependent on food/water, he'd dam well better not consider taking it away. This after a "discussion" wherein he was under some misinformation about Terri (brain dead, life support, the whole MSM thing). I reubtted everything he thought was correct. I said that all of us are dependent on food/water so what change would that entail? I think he gets it now, albeit with a ways to go.
Thank You! And bless you. I think there are a lot of us that can use that right now.
Terri could have lived happily for many years. She was healthy..not terminal.
So many keep confusing their decisions to let their terminal relatives go with Terri.
It's sad.
Not so much sad as terrifying.
Amen.
I think you should change your screen name to "disgusting"!. It's people like you who make me fear for my own future safety. Surely you wouldn't want to live like me, either. My legs are paralyzed, which means I can't ambulate the same way you do... but you can certainly solve my problem by simply pulling my wheelchair plug. Right???
Terri Schiavo died only because she was denied food and water, as anyone would. In my view that does not qualify as "life support." Unlike elderly people on respirators after their third heart attack, she was not at the end of her life. She had lived for 15 years, she might have lived another fifteen.
My one year old would die if I don't feed her everyday.
http://hail.he.net/~danger/schiavo.mp3
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