Gary Coleman's Wife Mentions Terri Schiavo in Comments About Pulling Plug

Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Gary Coleman's ex-wife said in a new interview that she pulled the plug on the actor last week because she didn't want him ending up like Terri Schiavo. The comments have sparked an outcry from pro-life advocates, who are also upset by continued mainstream media misreporting on Terri.

Shannon Price told TMZ in a video interview the day after Coleman's death,
"[The doctors] said even if they did take a chunk out of his brain, he would not be the same. He would be basically like Muhammed Ali."

"Be in my situation. I mean, look what happened with Terri Schiavo. I always think of her case, always, when it comes to this. Gary was gone," Price added. "And he would have died sooner or later anyway from that."

She told TMZ, "I don't want people to be so hard on me, thinking I had to pull the plug too early. He wouldn't have made it anyway. His heart would have just given out. I don't want people to sit there and think I'm a b----, and that I didn't care about him."

After citing Price's quotes to TMZ, the New York Daily News "reported" that "Schiavo, of Florida, languished in a coma for years before her husband won a drawn-out court battle to pull the plug."

But pro-life blogger Jill Stanek says that's not true, because Terri was never on life support -- she merely had assistance eating and drinking.

"For the gazillionth time, Terri Schiavo was not brain dead when a FL judge ordered her dehydrated and starved to death in 2005," Stanek said.

She added, "Oxygen deprivation left Terri mentally disabled, but she was responsive, particularly to family. There was no correlation between Terri's condition and actor Gary Coleman's apparently unresponsive condition, although even that is unclear."

"In this story we have a ready example demonstrating how the media always has and continues to get Terri's condition wrong," Stanek responded, saying the Daily News story is "absolutely false."

"We also see demonstrated how one should be very careful about who one decides to hand over a power of attorney," Stanek adds about Price's decision.

Shannon Price told TMZ in a video interview the day after Coleman’s death,
“[The doctors] said even if they did take a chunk out of his brain, he would not be the same. He would be basically like Muhammed Ali.”

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Muhammed Ali is still breathing as far as I know. This woman practically committed murder.

Terri Schiavo’s death is the perfect example of evil in the world. After seeing the videos I remember being totally SHOCKED. I said to myself, “she's not in a vegetative state, SHE'S CONSCIOUS!!!!!!!”

I thought, “there is NO WAY they will just let her die.”

The church, the congress, the president, the governor, the law, the courts, the judges, public opinion, could not save Terri. Who has that kind of power here on earth?

“The god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4)(satan) does. It's the only explanation.

Terri Schiavo was a healthy woman who suffered a brain injury from a seizure.

Coleman had chronic kidney disease, and spent years on dialysis or medicines to stop rejection of a kidney transplant. Often this means high blood pressure that damaged the heart and other organs, and might have been behind the stroke.

Schivo had an injury that was impossible for docs to estimate if she’d recover or not. She was killed later, even though she had recovered and was probably not PVS.

I suspect Coleman’s MRI showed a major bleed in his brain; if he didn’t die he would have spent years disabled. Brain surgery in this case has a small chance of recovery, but often the person dies after a few days, from cerebral edema.

Finally, I suspect Coleman either had a “living will” or had talked to his wife and family on what to do if he had a major stroke or heart attack.

Removing machines from a person who has only a small chance of recovery, is a bit different than starving to death a helpless handicapped woman.

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