Terri Schiavo

[SmackinYaUp]

So if she really is brain dead like her husband claims, then why not let her pass on?

If she is aware as her parents contend, then why keep her alive as a prisoner of her own body? I cant imagine anyone wanting to live like that.

Can you imagine being able to think and reason but not able to move a single muscle in your body - not even to tell them that you're there? Id seriously go insane.

I would have let her go a long time ago and kept her alive in my memories instead of remembering her as a vegetable for the last 15 years...

Of course its not my place to force my opinions onto another family's private life and death decision. But still...

[sykotik489]

Agree all the way around.

I am actually in favor of euthenasia (sp?) I dont think anyone should have to live longer than they want. To poker-ize it it would be like being all in at the turn, you turn over your cards and you are drawing dead but the dealer refuses to drop the river and put you out of your misery.

[LeFou]

actually they won't usually show the river if you're truly drawing dead.

[72bluffer]

IMO, It should be the decison of the parents, because it is evident that the husband has moved on, but you never stop being parents.

That being said, I do not agree with the parents decison to try and keep her alive. There is a huge differnence between being alive and living.

[Miggo]

I think that the original ruling 12 or 13 years ago, is that she does not want to be kept alive by artificial means. This ruling came about by her husband and 2 or 3 of her friends who recalled her saying while talking about someone in a similar cicumstance that she wouldn't want to be kept alive if she got like that.

So because it was ruled that this is what she wanted based on those witnesses testimony, all of the parent's appeals through the 19 courts and 10 judges have been actually appealing to override her daughters wishes, not the husbands. Even if her husband wanted her to be kept alive, he would have to purger himself by saying that he lied about what he testified his wife said.

I think it's just a couple of parents that don't want to let their daughter go. The hardest thing for any parent is having a child die. Hopefully, after she does pass away, I hope the parents do come to believe that it is what her daughter wanted.

[Sed]

Makes me want to make a deposit here...

http://www.uslivingwillregistry.com/

-sed

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