Wasn't Gonna Touch This

[RednBlack]

Terri Schiavo, This is just another news glamor. People, if I ever get in this situation, DON'T STARVE ME! Give me a fucking shot! I don't know if it is her parents or her husband that that got the media so involved. I don't care! There are so many people in the same condition. I watch people die all day in Iraq, watched it in Afghanistan, watched it in Viet-Nam. Don't need it anymore. Starvation is so cruel. How can people be that sad, that they would let a person starve to death? Aren't we the highest up on the food chain? Doesn't seem so here. Sickens me. This whole story sickens me. Go home Terri. Sorry for the rant. Just really tired of this story. R&BC

[bszopi]

RE: Wasn

The parents (IMO) are the ones that brought it into the media so much. The husband wants it to be over because he feels her life is basically over. I agree with him. The parents feel that she still has a chance, that miracles can happen, that she should be allowed to live. The parents are trying to get as much attention as possible so that somewhere down the road, a court will go to their side and force the tube to be replaced. But it doesn't look like that is going to happen.

Not that I want to talk about it, because it sickens me as well, but I just wonder who people think has the right to decide? I feel it is the husband because once he marries her, as stated in the vows, he is to care for her for the rest of her life. The father, in most cases, gives up the daughter for marriage. With that said, I feel it also depends on who is paying the medical bills. If the husband is paying, and he feels that she will never recover, then he should have the right to remove the tube. If the parents are paying the bills, then they should have a say in it. This is one thing that I have never seen mentioned.

[geoffinbc]

Teri said in her will that she never wanted to be a vegitable. Her husband is the one honoring that. If it were me I would rather die. That is not a way to live. I agree that starving her is not right. But they could just give her an injection to quickly end any suffering.

My Grandpa had a stroke and was in the hospital. He was basically a vegitable. Once infection set in our whole family said "thats it let him go" He wouldn't want to live like that and we didn't want him to live that way either.

[Lyle's GTP]

Let her die. I think 99% of us would say we wouldn't want to live like that. God damn human rights activists, so fucking unrealistic.

I do agree that it is cruel to let her stave to death, they should choose a better way. But I think this is better than KEEPING her alive.

Lyle

[SappySE107]

I don't watch the news much but have heard about this. Im so sick of a lot of things, so just pile this on the fucking list. Starving her is the lamest fucking idea I have ever heard. I say let the killers starve in prison...they don't even deserve the time they are allowed to have on this earth.

[RednBlack]

I just hope it is over soon, for Kerris' sake.

[vsop4me3.1]

another example of the righties using an innocent victim for political gain. Jeb Bush has enough pull to get the laws changed to help Terri's parent win this case, His brother is the president, the GOP runs the house, the senate, the courts, and the white house.

[RednBlack]

another example of the righties using an innocent victim for political gain. Jeb Bush has enough pull to get the laws changed to help Terri's parent win this case, His brother is the president, the GOP runs the house, the senate, the courts, and the white house.

No "one" won here. One lost.

[firechiken]

I agree, this has gotten WAY out of hand. There was a little write-up in my local paper about a lady who's been in the same condition since 1982, going through the same thing. All I can recall about her story is that she had a stroke during child birth. I don't even remember her name, and I'm sure none of you have even heard her story. I have just one question. Where were Terri's parents when she was trying to starve herself to death? Isn't that how she wound up this way?

[vsop4me3.1]

another example of the righties using an innocent victim for political gain. Jeb Bush has enough pull to get the laws changed to help Terri's parent win this case, His brother is the president, the GOP runs the house, the senate, the courts, and the white house.

No "one" won here. One lost.

you know what I mean. the court would have ruled in her parents favor.

[Doubt_Incarnate]

i think the whole starving thing gets around the "assisted suicide" thing wich is, for some reason, illeagal in most states. I do feel that she shouldnt be made to suffer, i havent seen it on tv, just read about it. it almost seems she is braindead to the point where she doent seem to be suffering. but even so why would you prolong the inevitable, its just selfish of the parents, they dont want to lose her.

i've believed for the longest time if someone was born defunked, or became so, that they shouldnt be made to live. to be mentaly retarded and live for 30+ years, thats cruel. its putting someone through a living hell all for "love". if they still have a capacity to function mentaly without problems, let them live by all means, but i dont belive in the MRDD or "special" schools or classes. people are alive to "be fruitfull and multiply", tards shouldnt have kids.

[bszopi]

Although she has now passed, for some odd reason I don't think the issue is going to die...

[PlatinumZ34]

i think the whole starving thing gets around the "assisted suicide" thing wich is, for some reason, illeagal in most states. I do feel that she shouldnt be made to suffer, i havent seen it on tv, just read about it. it almost seems she is braindead to the point where she doent seem to be suffering. but even so why would you prolong the inevitable, its just selfish of the parents, they dont want to lose her.

i've believed for the longest time if someone was born defunked, or became so, that they shouldnt be made to live. to be mentaly retarded and live for 30+ years, thats cruel. its putting someone through a living hell all for "love". if they still have a capacity to function mentaly without problems, let them live by all means, but i dont belive in the MRDD or "special" schools or classes. people are alive to "be fruitfull and multiply", tards shouldnt have kids.

i dont wanna go here, but i completely disagree with you on that...
however, i do support assisted suicides in vegetable conditions with no hope... like when the brain stops functioning and its just a piece of meat the doctors are keeping alive...

[ikessky]

First and foremost, I am really scared right now. This all just goes to show how much power the judges in this country have and they are not even elected officials.

Second, I really don't know how I feel about what happened here. I would never want to be starved to death, but was it really good to let her keep "living"? I mean, she did react to things like her parents and she laughed and cried....... I guess thinking about it deep down inside, the parents should have been able to choose. The husband had his own reasons to not want her around, but the parents were willing to take custody of her. Why not let them? Regardless of all that, starving a person to death is not right. My son (9 months old) cannot feed himself. Does that mean starving him would be right? I just don't know what to say about the whole thing. I just hope and pray that I never have to be put into a situation where I decide if someone lives or die.

[RednBlack]

Although she has now passed, for some odd reason I don't think the issue is going to die...

Nope, now the Husband and Parents are arguing over where to bury her and over the cremation issue. I'm just glad she doesn't have too deal with it. I still believe the whole thing is another media show. Let's see what interesting news they dig up next to exploit. (vsop, I knew what you meant, wasn't a dig at you.) The whole thing did bring up a question though, between my wife and I. We will both fill out a living will next week. Not for our wealth, , but for our ending wishes. We both watched the whole story and agreed that families do disagree in these situations.