Schiavo Pt. Four

[Wezil]

DD - That is awful.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7293186/?GT1=6305

theres a link that said the parents were kicked out

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Solver
If it's called a vegetable state, doesn't mean she's no longer human.

As far as the important parts of being human it does.

For a conscious person, obviously, being starved to death would be very unpleasant.

Having starved for a month before, I can tell you it's not at all painful after the first day or so. Hunger goes away after than and you have to force yourself to eat. Note that starvation doesn't necessarily indicate a total lack of food. I had maybe one meal a day for a month, usually a small bowl of rice or noodles, sometimes just a glass of vodka.

[rah]

RIP, I hope it's what she truely wanted.

[Az]

I also hope that this what she truly wanted, however she's been dead for years now, it seems.



This is so sad, when the personality is almost gone, and nothing is left but an empty shell...

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7293186/?GT1=6305

theres a link that said the parents were kicked out

Indeed it does. According to the spokesperson for the family anyway....

[Ned]

I don't know so much about the starvation angle, but it is said that dying of dehydration is pure agony. To all of you who flippantly say you are going to exercise a living will authorizing the pulling of a feeding tube, imagine yourself lying there, unable to communicate, and slowly dying of thirst.

[chequita guevara]

It wouldn't surprise me. I'm sure there's a massive amount of bad blood, and I wouldn't want them in the room with me either.

[Gatekeeper]

I hope her soul finds peace, because I can *guarantee* you that there won't be any on this damnable planet anytime soon.

Gatekeeper

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
imagine yourself lying there, unable to communicate, and slowly dying of thirst.

If I had no cerebral cortex, what would be the point of imagining? It's the same as being dead.

[Ned]

The Schindlers have released an audiotape of Terri being asked, does this hurt, does that hurt. Terri responds with answers that are unmistakably "yes" and "no."

[Mrs. Tuberski]

You know I have read in these many threads about the husband being slandered but what of the parents were they not just as slandered. It was written they only wanted her alive to get some money of the settlement. I am sorry keepin the parents from her last breaths is just plain fuc**** wrong. I dont care bout bad blood somebody should have been man enough to let them say good bye the right way

[Admiral]

Terri may be dead, but the politics will be resurrected. Tom Delay came out with the following statement:

"Mrs. Schiavo's death is a moral poverty and a legal tragedy. This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change. The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Schindlers and with Terri Schiavo's friends in this time of deep sorrow."

(http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=45102)

Apparently, Delay feels that threatening people is a good way to distract people from his ethically dubious actions.

[Ned]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


If I had no cerebral cortex, what would be the point of imagining? It's the same as being dead.

If.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It wouldn't surprise me. I'm sure there's a massive amount of bad blood, and I wouldn't want them in the room with me either.

They wouldn't be in the room with him. They would be in the room with their daughter.

ACK!