NEWS ALERT! Brain-Injured Wife Goes Without Food or Water for Seven Weeks

Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network ^ | 9/17/10 | Bobby Schindler

[wagglebee]

 

NEWS ALERT! Brain-Injured Wife Goes Without Food or Water for Seven Weeks

September 17, 2010 (Statement from Terri's Life & Hope Network) - It has been 49 days since Trisha Duguay has gone without any food or water after her feeding tube was removed. Her husband made this decision shortly after Trisha had unsuccessful surgery for a brain tumor that was discovered just after the couple was married.

The family has started a Facebook page to lend support to Trisha and her family titled, "From Bride to Angel." So far, over 4,000 people have supported the family.

While what is happening to Mrs. Duguay is not receiving a lot of media attention, Terri's Life & Hope Network expresses concern with the manner in which some media outlets are portraying the situation, treating Trisha's prolonged death and going without food and hydration-for over 7 weeks now-as an act of compassion.

I think it is important to be reminded that dying this way is not compassionate, peaceful or pleasant. My family witnessed, first hand, something quite the opposite. Terri went through almost two weeks without food and water before she died, and it was heartbreaking. Her death was cruel and barbaric and she suffered horribly. We must continue to educate the general public that food and water is basic and ordinary care and despite ones intentions, it does not change the nature of the act.

Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network was established by the surviving family members of Terri Schiavo to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It has communicated and supported with more than 1,000 families, and has been involved in hundreds of cases since Terri's death-families who have loved one's living with brain injuries.

[SeeSac]

Take your anti-life message elsewhere. This is Free Republic, not democrat underground.

I made no message. You obviously don't like to look at facts thus instead of addressing my post you make a persoanl attack on me. I didn't think Free Republic sanctioned such vile attacks.

[SeeSac]

If you want to push a pro-death agenda, do it elsewhere.

Please don't distort my post. I only posted that she was dead. How is that pushing the pro-death agenda?

[SeeSac]

This is the Terri Dailies Thread.

I apologize. I thought that since the headline story was about Trisha Duguay, then it was ok to post facts about Trisha. You should state more clearly that facts about Trisha are not welcome on your thread.

[floriduh voter]

Free Republic is pro-life. In the past, the founders have perma-banned deathbots from FR.

[wagglebee]

Please don't distort my post. I only posted that she was dead. How is that pushing the pro-death agenda?

No, that IS NOT all you posted.

Saying that a person can be murdered based on an unwritten statement IS the pro-death agenda:

To: Eternal_Bear

“Trisha made Jim promise: If she were to end up in a vegetative state, with no hope of getting better, he would not let her languish.”

94 posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 1:53:05 PM by SeeSac

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“Trisha made Jim promise: If she were to end up in a vegetative state, with no hope of getting better, he would not let her languish.”

[Sun]

bmp for later read.

[Sun]

Post 96, later read.

[SeeSac]

No, that IS NOT all you posted. Saying that a person can be murdered based on an unwritten statement IS the pro-death agenda:

I never said a person can be murdered on an unwritten statement. You are twisting my post to mean something I didn't write. I you are going to twist it, please, at least quote my post.

[wagglebee]

I never said a person can be murdered on an unwritten statement.

So, you are saying that you agree that Trisha Duguay was murdered on nothing more than some purported oral statements.

You are twisting my post to mean something I didn't write.

Then tell us what you really mean.

I you are going to twist it, please, at least quote my post.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem?

I did post it, in it's entirety, but here it is again:

To: Eternal_Bear

“Trisha made Jim promise: If she were to end up in a vegetative state, with no hope of getting better, he would not let her languish.”

94 posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 1:53:05 PM by SeeSac

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“Trisha made Jim promise: If she were to end up in a vegetative state, with no hope of getting better, he would not let her languish.”

[wagglebee]

I got to thinking about it and since you seem to have wandered onto a pro-life thread by accident, perhaps you can answer a few questions:

1. Do you believe in the right to life from conception to natural death (execution of criminals do not count)? YES or NO

2. Do you believe euthanasia should be legal? YES or NO

3. Do you believe assisted suicide should be legal? YES or NO

4. Do you believe that food and water are "extraordinary" life support and can be withdrawn? YES or NO

Please note that I am only interested in yes or no answers to these questions. (And I'll give you a hint libertarians who try to bring up money are actually using a leftist ploy formulated by the Nazis.)

[little jeremiah]

Thank you for the ping, wagglebee. Please ping me again when/if there is a reply.

This is just like the Big Bureaucracy person who absolutely refused to answer simple questions, danced around pretending to be all over the place, while her statements revealed the real agenda, which was absolutely not conservative.

[little jeremiah]

One girl wrote in to the day of silence team, saying that when she arrived at school, a fellow student came up to her and said she was wasting her time and that no one would listen to her. “All I did was nod,” wrote the student, “and gave her the paper [flyer],” at which point she “threw it at me.”

But when the pro-life student walked away, she said that she saw the other girl pick up the flyer and put it in her pocket. Later that day, she said, “I saw her but her eyes were puffy, then she hugged me and said I was making a huge difference to a lot of girls, and that she was scheduled for an abortion later this week and that she will cancel it.”

Wonderful.

[RnMomof7]

if there is an answer please let me know (i do not expect one)

[LilAngel]

I’m afraid you’re right, but would you ping me if there is an answer?

[LilAngel]

You’re seriously mistaken. I do like to look at facts. I do not like to look at distortions put forth by death mongers in support of murder. Fear not, Free Republic does not support vile attacks that result in the death of innocents. You may have noticed you’re not getting a lot of support here for such vile attacks. Have you tried Daily Kos? They might be more receptive to your message, and more willing to accept your claim that it isn’t a message.

[LilAngel]

You’re seriously mistaken. I do like to look at facts. I do not like to look at distortions put forth by death mongers in support of murder. Fear not, Free Republic does not support vile attacks that result in the death of innocents. You may have noticed you’re not getting a lot of support here for such vile attacks. Have you tried Daily Kos? They might be more receptive to your message, and more willing to accept your claim that it isn’t a message.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[LilAngel]

Sorry about the double post. How I got them both at the same time, not even a second apart, I don’t know. Is there a prize for that?

[trisham]

This IS NOT compassion, it is slow and drawn out MURDER.

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Agreed.

[wagglebee]

I doubt that there will be an answer, but I'll keep a look out.

The death mongers are fairly predicatable and they can't contain their hatred very long, they invariably pop up on a different thread.