PRAY FOR TERRI SCHIAVO

POSTED BY: Conscience
UPDATED: Sunday, June 19, 2005 02:31
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CONSCIENCE

Monday, March 21, 2005 9:26 PM

Right now the adulterous/murderous monster that calls himself her husband is fighting to murder her by starvation.

Pray her family is able to save her life from this evil Michael Schiavo.

http://www.terrisfight.org

SIGNYM

Monday, March 21, 2005 9:38 PM

Your post hardly is worth a reply, but I'm going to anyway. When you have taken care of Terri for EIGHT YEARS- diapering her, feeding her, bathing her, amusing her- as her husband did- THEN you can come back and call him "evil". Until you've done that, shut the f*ck up.

SIGNYM

Monday, March 21, 2005 9:42 PM

gorram double post

KNIBBLET

Monday, March 21, 2005 10:00 PM

There's no evil in this. There are misguided intentions. Those misguided intentions belong to the parents who cannot accept that their daughter is now a shell.
Terri died 15 years ago. Her husband took her to every specialist there was. He took care of her 24/7 for 8 years.
Her parents cannot accept that their daughter is gone. If you believe in heaven, I'd think you'd want her soul to be free of a body and brain that doesn't work.
I pray that she dies peacefully so that she will once again 'live'.

"I'm gonna rip you a new puppet hole, bitch!"

JASONZZZ

Monday, March 21, 2005 11:30 PM

SIGNYM

Monday, March 21, 2005 11:46 PM

Even when the brain remains physically intact, this kind of case is rare. In Terri's case- where most of the cerebral cortex is gone- recovery is impossible.

JASONZZZ

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:18 AM

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DARKJESTER

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:38 AM

It seems to me that she is having life thrust upon her, against her wishes. We can keep a corpse "alive" nowadays, with machinery and drugs. But the person is in the consciousness, not the body.

I onced watched as doctors "threw the switch" on a friend of mine. He'd been in a coma for several days, his heart could no longer beat on its' own, his kidneys had shut down days before, and his liver was failing. But perhaps most importantly, in the previous days his heart had stopped several times, and the doctors were almost sure there was brain damage. Rick had an IQ in the MENSA range (around 140) and was the only guy I'd ever met who could ALWAYS beat me in punning battles. I for one knew that he wouldn't want to live if he was reduced to being in a "vegitative state".

Fortunately, I guess, his family, girlfriend and friends all came to realize that it was his time to go. When the head of cardiology in a major hospital uses the phrase "If by some miracle he should survive this...", it's usually a good indication it's time to say your good-byes. His family stood around his bed, his friends behind them. The doctor really did throw a switch on a piece of machinery, and 30 seconds later his heart stopped.

Yes, it's different than the current case - my friend needed machines or he would (and did) die naturally. But going through my friend's illness and death taught me that a beating heart doesn't prove someone is alive.

My parents and sisters have all been told, very directly, that under no circumstances do I want to be kept alive by machines when there is no real hope of recovery, and/or if I have brain damage to the point of not being able to care for myself.

Terri's gone. Her body is still here. And honestly, there is very little that frightens me more than imagining myself in her place, trapped in a non-responsive body, with my loved ones forcing me to live, preventing me from finding peace.

Edited to add: I don't think that there is a "person" in her body anymore. There is no consciousness there to percieve anything. That last statement about being "trapped" in her body is really irrelevant.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

JASONZZZ

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:01 AM

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HARDWARE

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:43 AM

Having had a close family member in a quality of life struggle with a doctor I think I have a little understanding of what is involved in these sort of decisions. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be so greatly impaired as Terri. And to live day in, day out, knowing you have most of your life in front of you to waste away in a hospital bed.

Like it or not Terri's parents have no legal grounding to stop Michael Schiavo from excercising his rights as Terri's next of kin. Just as Terri would have those same rights if Michael were the one in the vegetative state.

At some point you've got to cut the umbilical cord.

Of course you're got to wonder how ol' W reconciles signing the Terri Schiavo law considering the legislation he signed in to law in 1999 in Texas.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3073295

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