Terry Schiavo Poll
 

let her die now or prolong her life?

So where's the poll?

who really cares?

look up!!!!

Let her die in peace

I do.......

Slow starvation and dehydration is not dying in peace. I wish there was a easier way around that. I wouldnt want anyone I loved dying like that. Then again, I wouldnt want her to live like that either
*sigh* :Oh crap

They should have let her die years ago instead of putting her through years of torture. Thanks to this whole fiasco, I now have a legal living will.

It cost me about $125 at a very well known and well respected local attorney. Everyone should check into getting one.

True...one good thing about all this is that this is setting precedence AND people are becoming more educated on the subject of living wills/directives.

i think she should live.... very sad story :(

Most of the people talking about her like she's still alive... She died the day her brain was damaged. They talk about her like she's their daughter, or sister, but she died along time ago.

At the risk of repeating myself she will not die of starvation or dehydration

She will, like most in this or a similar situation be given large amounts of morphine. This will keep her comfortable, and eventually it will be increased until she loses conciouness and eventually it will stop her breathing and she will die.

I prey that this is the way I end my life..........

Hire her ass out to parties I say.. Its still warm..

haha, oh man thats wrong :1orglaugh

did you guys hear that doctor say he could have her talking within 5 months... i think she could come out of it with the right therapy. the mother of my son was in a coma for 3 months and came out of it. you never know what could happen.

She isnt in a coma..... Its very different

The doctor you are talking about it is a notorious self publisist (I assume we are talking about the same one). His technique (vasodilation) is controversial to say the least.

interesting numbers

William Hammesfahr is a nutcase.

He promotes himself as a "Nobel Prize nominee" but how special is that? Just get your Republican congressman to send a form letter to the committee nominating you. Very impressive!

This so called doctor claims that she didn't have an eating disorder that caused her heart attack at all but was strangled by her husband.

In 2003 he tried to prove to the court that she was responsive.

For nearly an hour, her parents and the doctor tell her to open her eyes, close her eyes, look this way, look that way?with little apparent response.

Judge Greer counted.

"By the court's count, (Hammesfahr) gave 105 commands to Terri Schiavo and, at his direction, Mrs. Schindler gave an additional six commands," Greer wrote. "He asked her 61 questions and Mrs. Schindler asked her an additional 11 questions. The court saw few actions that could be considered responsive to either those commands or those questions."

Also,

In February 2003, the Florida Board of Medicine ruled that he violated state law by charging a patient for services that were not provided (Finding of Fact No. 71, PDF p. 32). The board fined Hammesfahr $2,000, placed him on probation for six months, and ordered him to pay approximately $52,000 in administrative costs and to perform 100 hours of community service.

not to be mean or anything she has been alive way too long like since 1990?

she is suffering. let he go. if i was in the hospital more than 2 months. i would wanna be unplugged. thats how i want it written.

I NEVER heard that as an option. The case is about the removal of the tube, not euthanasia.

personaly i think she should be dead... she has been in a bed for 15 years with no response.. even if she did come back she would be severly retarded and wouldnt have a good life anyway At least nothing like what she had.

Federal court just refused to overturn it.

You are correct. No drugs will be used or needed. Both of my Grandmothers basicly died this way. Their body shuts down and they stop drinking and eating. They go to sleep and don't wake up.

So thats IT? She just slowly wastes away...very harsh

Schiavo Appeal to Reconnected Tube Denied

7 minutes ago U.S. National - AP


By ELIOTT C. McLAUGHLIN, Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA - A federal appeals court refused early Wednesday to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, denying an emergency request by the severely brain-damaged woman's parents.
The three-judge panel ruled 2-1 to deny the request, a day after a federal judge in Florida also refused a similar appeal.
Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, vowed yet another appeal Wednesday.
"The Schindlers will be filing an appropriate appeal to save their daughter's life," said Rex Sparklin, an attorney with the law firm representing the parents.
The Schindlers said Tuesday that their daughter was "fading quickly" and might die at any moment. The feeding tube was disconnected on Friday, and doctors have said that Terri Schiavo, 41, could survive one to two weeks without water and nutrients.

Let this topic die in peace ...

Her family should've taken the same advice after selfishly spending years and countless taxpayer dollars to save a woman who, sadly, is basically in a "awake" coma, and will never recover.