Posted on 06/16/2005 5:13:33 AM PDT by Teófilo
But, was a that a greenlight to kill her?
Folks, the results of Terri Schiavo's autopsy are out and they confirm the extent of Terri's brain damage following her still unexplained collapse in 1990. The autopsy's result is being bandied about as "proof" that her husband Michael was right in ordering her killing, and as "egg-on-the-face" of the different authorities in Congress and in the White House who added an extra layer of review in this life-and-death case.
The calculation that entered into Terri's process was brutal: her life, her very existence was ruled unproductive and a drain on valuable resources, and enough of a ethical fig leaf to cover the shame of her direct killing by refusing her food and water.
The Catholic Christian and humane moral stance remains unchanged: human life, even minimally functioning, is endowed with an intrinsic dignity and an inalienable right to life, that no "due process of law" can take away. Terri's life had value, at least to her parents and sibblings and that value should've been accorded a measure of respect by society and the courts.
Human life is too valuable to measure against its ability to produce a good or a service, or in terms of its lack of values to others, or of its need to consume resources better spent on others who have the advantage of a partial or full awareness. All laws, all procedures that violate human dignity at this most basic of levels are null and void by their very nature. They might be afforded the label of "legality" by those who hold the levers of power, but that only reflects an irresponsible use of power and not an objective sanction of the trampling of a basic human life.
Terri's autopsy's results change nothing of the original conditions that led to her fight for life. And the fight is not over. Remember Terri Schiavo.
I cannot believe anyone who is in with the kill now crowd in that Florida County.
Her husband said she was bulimic & that she told him she wouldn't want to live that way. This report says she was NOT bulimic...........why would her husband say that if it weren't true? Can we believe what else he says?
This report only opens more questions - what put her in that state to start with?
It amazing! So now we're prepared to equate brain damage to court ordered death?
The absolute perverted selfishness of society is really starting to prevade the very essence of goodness.
By who? Oh, and proof please?
We all know Dick Durbin has extensive brain damage, but I don't see anybody pulling his feeding tube.
Funny I read the cause of death WAS bulimia. But I guess some folks always want to skew it.
Is anyone really surprised by these autopsy 'results'?
After all, Governor Greer directed that an autopsy be performed, and it validates each and every one of his wise, compassionate and thoughtful (gag-choke-spew) decisions.
Anyone with a family member truly suffering from brain damage ought to be feeling the chill of the grim reaper right about now.
Notice they waited so long to release the report. That was to difuse the situation.
Psyops in action
No and as I agree what was done to Terri when she had a family willing to care for her, fear mongering that all of us with loved ones with severe brain damage should be afraid is irresponsible. JMO
Should have read what was done to Terri was wrong.
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I thought it interesting how they described the size of her brain.
Isn't there a treatment for severe siezures that one side of the brain is removed to stop the seizures?
Also saying she was blind may be true but she could hear to respond perhaps.
The brain is such an unknown area how anyone can say on way or another exactly how one is affected due to severe damage is guess work.
I have been around many severely brain damaged people/kids in the last 26yrs and rarely ever see the initial prognosis right.
Also know a couple of cases much worse than Terri who live in nursing homes and no one is out to kill them.
Her husband fought very hard to have her leave this earth, he should have just walked away.
It's between him and God now.
Been in that situation quite a few times and were still here.
Fear mongering.
Conservatives were on the wrong side of this debate. My wife has said during the Shiavo debate that she wouldn't want to be kept alive in a PVS. Suppose she were in a car accident or had a stroke and went into a PVS. Should I really ignore my wife's wish to be taken off the feeding tube? Just remarry and leave her be? She's my wife, I would want to honor her request and her memory.
"An unproductive life and a drain on society". There goes the Democrat Base but, that saves Social Security.
You know if anyone has gained/learned anything from this case is to get it in writing.
Living wills are imperfect solutions because it is difficult to anticipate every possible scenario weighed against possible breakthrough treatments and to draw a line through possible grey areas.
A much better solution is to tell your spouse what you generally want and then to trust that person to make the judgement call for you. Well, that was a better solution before some conservatives decided that what God joins together the state can separate.
Trust is the keyword there.
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