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So everybody knows about the Terri Schiavo case, and everybody is probably sick of hearing about it. I will say I haven't really been following it closely, but I've heard enough to keep up with what is going one

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[autumn_crimson]

i have to agree, and im glad you decided to write something about it. <3

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Thanks hun. <3

[sohoxchic]

I agree. I think the husband is greedy and selfish, and his actions are just disgusting. and the fact that he claims "she wouldn't want to live like this" is hearsay, because there was no written document stating that. he definitely should not be her guardian in this situation.

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The whole thing is disgusting. It makes me so mad.

[lizzi_barth]

It absolutely sickens me, and I *DO* support most right to die movements, am in favour of euthanasia, etc etc. Everyone kept talking about this woman being "brain dead" and "like a vegetable". then when i finally saw footage of her, I was so surprised to see a smiling, lauging woman who, while obviously brain damaged, was definitely aware of her surroundings and emotions. then there were all these doctors and neurologists saying how, given the opportunity, she could make a great deal of improvement

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Yea, I also don't understand what the deal with her husband is. He has a new life... and even if she is a financial burden, her parents have told him he can divorce her and place all financial obligation with them. He wouldn't have to worry about her anymore. So why does he care so much?

I myself don't support many right to die movements [I lean towards pro choice but am still on the fence about it]. It sickens me how they are handling the whole situation.

The US is supposed to be one of the most advanced countries in the world, and here we are starving a woman to death just because they consider her to be "a drain on society". I'm just so angry.

Long reply, thanks for the comment!

[dreamchaser016]

Well, not to stir up shit or anything, but this irked me: Who are we to say who lives and who dies?.

Doctors have been keeping her alive artificially for over ten years. So presumably, "god"--or whomever--would have had her die when this originally happened. At this point, in one case it is some judge's decision to keep her "alive" and in the other to have her die. She would not live on her own--no one is euthanizing her or any such thing.

Further, the husband said that she told him that she would not wish to live on in such a manner. If I were in an accident today, there is no fucking way I would want to live on in a horrible vegetative state.

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True that. They have been keeping her alive artificially and she would be dead if not for artificial technology. There are multiple sides to the ethics behind the live or die question.

BUT, they way they are killing her is what is really bothering me. Starving her to death. Brain-damaged or not, the body is most likely suffering. [Plus, I was under the impression that she was not in a completely vegetative, comatose state?]

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No shit stirred hun. Thanks for the comment.

[dreamchaser016]

The parents claim that--but they're the only ones saying so. Her frontal lobe is damaged, meaning that she has no cognitive faculties, and feels absolutely no pain. We discussed it in my AP Bio class.

[lesbianism]

you are so right.

& i didn't know about those kids.

i'm a little late, i suppose .. but wow.

your point was more powerful than a lot of those that i've seen about terri's case.

i didn't follow it either, but i felt it wrong .. & i just decided i'd say that your idea was well spoken.

& ( dreamchaser016 ) .. to be quite honest with you, & not to be rude by any means, i think that although she did not feel pain, the idea of what happened is morally incorrect & socially taboo in a humane aspect.

i don't think that the way our people dealt with it was entirely just.

& think about it .. even though she didn't feel that pain .. think of what her parents felt.

that's pain.