Terri Schiavo

[stillbjorn]

In October 1939, Hitler himself initiated a decree which empowered physicians to grant a "mercy death" to "patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health

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[checkrbrat]

it's really super sad that she will now have to wither away and die. but this woman never wanted to be on life support to begin with and someone should of respected her wishes. Personally Id rather be dead than trapped in my mind. You know what I think of when I think of being comatose. Johnny get your gun. The soilder being trapped in his mind knowing what was going on not being able to communicate and going crazy. Thats not a life for me. But thats me.

[pensivegargoyle]

It seems to me that if we can't reliably know what someone in that situation wanted to happen (and we can't here, it's the husband's words against the parents'), we have to err on the side of life and the possibility, however remote, of recovery. So I personally think the tube should stay in. It's just a profoundly sad story all around. I suppose the only good thing about it is that her condition is such that whichever way this goes, she won't be suffering. The political vultures on either side of the issue can just go fuck themselves.

[stillbjorn]

Amen, brother.

[moannamuppet]

I almost got into an argument with my brother tonight over this issue. Ignorant, arrogant jerk ticked me off. I can understand someone who doesn't know the facts thinking the tube should be removed. I felt the same way the first time I heard about her a couple of years ago. It's easy to put yourself in her shoes and think, "I wouldn't want to breathe and live if I were brain dead and at someone else's mercy." However, anyone who has taken the time to get the facts should know better. She never signed a legal document stating her wishes; she doesn't need life support, just a feeding tube; her supposedly caring husband refuses to dissolve their marriage despite the fact that he's got a live-in girlfriend who has given birth to two of his kids. I don't trust her husband's agenda. It's not his "wife's" best interest he's after. Beyound that though is the facts of the law. They shouldn't remove her feeding tube; well it's removed all the time; it's only attached when she feeds; so I guess it's more accurate to say they SHOULD

[stillbjorn]

Always good to hear from you derbinator =)

I'm so worn out by this whole thing i'm afraid i can't offer anything else than that. But i know exactly what you're talking about. Some jerk on another website went as far as to GLOAT to me about the fact that the Supreme Court turned down the case. Sick people.