Terry Schiavo

i'm on the fence on one hand she is just laying there for the past 13 years with a feeding tube, on the other hand just taking it away so she starves to death is wrong.If they want her dead just shoot her instead of watching her die of hunger and thirst that is sick just fucking choke her put her out now not maybe two weeks!

 

I can understand your passion on this PR. But if it is true, and I don't know myself, that her doctors say she is nearly fully brain dead, and has been for 13 yrs, if it were someone I loved, I'd have to let her go.
As for the husband, whatever his motives are, he is her husband. She married him and in doing so she put her trust in him. If my wife had to decide to stop feeding me for the same reason, (yes, she would get alot of money) I hope nobody would be second guessing her motives. And after several years, I would hope she would have given up the dream that I would awaken and have found someone else to love too.
As for her parents, as a father, I would have a hard time letting go too. I understand how they must feel. But they must let go.

 

the thing i find really odd about this case is that she suffered severe brain damage in 1990 when a chemical imbalance apparently brought on by an eating disorder caused her heart to stop beating for a few minutes.....and now, she is essentially going to starve to death......

 

It is Ironic and quite sad.

 

i still think its fucked watching her starve just put the pillow over her face ,that IMO would be more humane

 

indeed it is....

 

I agree.
I watched my mother suffer enough through fighting and recovering from cancer. When her time comes and there clearly is no hope, if she is suffering, I will help her on her way.

 

It's what the bitch deserves for refusing to eat!

Take that, little Miss Ghandi with her food strike and her lame excuses.

"I'm mentally handicapped." "I can't eat because my tongue is too big and floppy." "Wah wah wah, feed me through a tube." I say starve her twice!

God, it's great being back.



But, seriously, if that's what she truly wants, then I agree with her husband.

 

I'm torn I think her families wishes should be respected but then on the other hand she had 0 monitored brain waves, no brain activity which essentially means she is brain dead-no chance of recovery. if there's no active brain neurons in the first place then how can they rehabilitate and re-train them?

 

or they could do what they did for my great gramma... she said she never wanted a feeding tube so every hour after she had her stroke, she got morphine

 

right i agree give her drugs so she feels no pain and then put her out quickly. I mean she may be brain damaged but i'm sure she feels pain.

 

yeah my gramma was 101 so i understand her wish but i hope they are giving her serious drugs because yes... she can still feel pain i am sure.

 

I was talking about this with my mom and it really bothered me because she said that she wouldn't want to see me alive that way that it would be easier if I were did. I said that if she were braindead I would keep her alive and she said i was selfish for wanting her more then her dignity. I agreed with her in the end though and I wouldn't want to live where people had to take care of me all the time. that's no life I'd rather see what's next.

 

Lynsey, if she was braindead she wouldn't be able to open her eyes and respond to her family. She is brain damaged, but not braindead.

 

they measure no brain activity those are natural muscle responses that aren't associted with her CNS rather just non responsive, non centered muscle contractions.

 

Thank god you said it first. There is a BIG difference between "brain damaged" and "brain dead." People, if this woman was brain dead she wouldn't be doing anything right now. She still breathes on her own, and she is still responding to her surroundings, she has a living brain, it's just not functioning properly.

Removing this woman's feeding tube is no better than taking another living human being off of kidney dialysis, and letting them die a slow horrible death due to their body being poisoned by the shit your kidneys usually take care of. It's not as if she'll gently slip into death once her tube has been removed, she's gonna starve to death.

I don't think anyone can say what her opinion on this issue would be. I'm sure that if she really ever did talk to her husband about it, she was probably thinking more along the lines of not wanting to be on life support, like if she was in a coma or honestly brain dead. It's not right for other people to make up her mind for her, especially not a husband who's moved on with his life and is probably just tired of the responsibility of caring for his brain-damaged wife.

 

call me niave

but I think life should be granted unless explictly requested otherwise ...by the person who's life that is being taken

her life is being taken.......she never gave it

 

Wow, that was deeper than I plan on dicking you.

 

*squints and tips head in confusion*

thanks?

 

You're totally welcome 'n stuff.

Goddammit, I need to get some sleep, but this forum is addicting.