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Federal Appeals Court Says RIP Terri Schiavo
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centurion beat you.
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Hopefully this time she will be able to rest in peace, instead of being kept alive.
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Sad news. :(
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please dont keep me plugged in
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so her parents want her plugged in?
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What bothers me most about this, is that it's a cruel way to let someone die. If she wasn't breathing on her own, that's one thing... it would be quick and painless then. But now they have to wait for her to die of dehydration. I couldn't live with myself being responsible for someone dying like that. Not even convicted murderers on death row will die like that. She will suffer and she can't even communicate her pain to anyone. Breaks my heart. :(
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This topic is really boring, it doesn't deserve to be main news on major news agencies ... (btw, schiavo in Italian means slave)
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I didnīt know she can laughs and moves her eyes.
This is sad! :Oh crap |
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Check out http://terrisfight.org |
This is sad :Oh crap
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The family is completely willing and are fighting to take her home but it's not going to happen. |
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Read the "Myths about Terri" from http://terrisfight.org
Also check out the very extensive timeline. |
This will lead to a rash of husbands and wifes killing each other!!
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Actually it seems as though the husband is a complete wanker who just wants to keep $600k. I change my mind. If I was the judge I would rule that he hands over the $600k and grants a divorce.
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http://www.apfn.org/apfn/terri_michael.htm - Looks as though her husband may have something to hide
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I can't wait to see the taxpayer bill for all this .. that's the real shame.
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Schiavo Feels No Pain
CLEVELAND-Patients in a persistent vegetative state like Terri Schiavo are a subgroup who suffer severe anoxic brain injury and progress to a state of wakefulness without awareness. It is judged to be permanent after three months if induced nontraumatically. After 3 months, recovery is rare and life expectancy is approximately 2 to 5 years. Patients in a persistent vegetative state do not feel pain, nor do they "suffer," says Michael De Georgia, MD, head of the neurology-neurosurgery intensive care unit at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation here. Pain, as well as suffering, requires consciousness, which is lacking in a person in a persistent vegetative state, says Dr. De Georgia. "Certainly these patients don't suffer," he adds. "Suffering is really that whole emotional aspect of pain: fear, anxiety, panic surrounding pain. You have to have consciousness to experience these emotions. So just as a person in a persistent vegetative state can't experience pain because of a lack of consciousness, they also don't suffer." READ MORE |
It's not sad at all, it's sad how some people cannot accept the ways of life. It's actually unbelievable how some people let their rational thinking go and be led by religious dictations. The judge has made a wise decision.
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what a travesty
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Why has Michael Schiavo forbidden any video be shot of her the past 2 years? Wouldn't that help to dispell much of the misinformation and accusations in this case? |
ah1]Schiavo Feels No Pain
CLEVELAND-Patients in a persistent vegetative state like Terri Schiavo are a subgroup who suffer severe anoxic brain injury and progress to a state of wakefulness without awareness. It is judged to be permanent after three months if induced nontraumatically. After 3 months, recovery is rare and life expectancy is approximately 2 to 5 years. Patients in a persistent vegetative state do not feel pain, nor do they "suffer," says Michael De Georgia, MD, head of the neurology-neurosurgery intensive care unit at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation here. Pain, as well as suffering, requires consciousness, which is lacking in a person in a persistent vegetative state, says Dr. De Georgia. "Certainly these patients don't suffer," he adds. "Suffering is really that whole emotional aspect of pain: fear, anxiety, panic surrounding pain. You have to have consciousness to experience these emotions. So just as a person in a persistent vegetative state can't experience pain because of a lack of consciousness, they also don't suffer." READ MORE[/QUOTE] If she feels no pain then there is no harm in trying to rehabilitate her. The husband wants her dead to inherit what's left of the 2.6 mil she received in the law suit. Again, if she feels no pain, there is no rush to kill her to save her from her present condition. There is no harm to do what the parents want and the husband has forbidden for over 10 yrs, rehabilitate her! |
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"Schiavo's cerebral cortex has been completely destroyed, replaced by spinal fluid; Dr. Ron Cranford, a neurologist at the University of Minnesota assessed Schiavo's brain function in 2001 as part of a court-ordered assessment. He was quoted in Florida Today as saying "[Schiavo] has no electrical activity in her cerebral cortex on an EEG (electroencephalogram), and a CT (computerized tomography) scan showed massive atrophy in that region." |
If she's brain dead, it's not like she's aware that she's starving to death. She's BRAINDEAD! If this were a hundred years ago and nobody had the miracles of modern medicine, she'd already be dead and this would be a moot point. Just because we have the capabilities of keeping someone alive, should we? Eventually the cost filters down to the taxpayers, and let's be honest, all the family are doing is prolonging their own suffering. Even her husband said that she wouldn't have wanted to live that way. So now the court systems are tied up and taxpayers are paying so that her parents who refuse to let go can fight to keep her alive (against her own wishes and her husband's), and all it's going to do in the end is cause even MORE grief. What's better, to dwell in the past, or to live in the now and keep the memories of the past in your heart? It's a sad thing, but she should be left to rest.
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I could see if she was on a breathing machine, but she can breathe. She just needs food and water to survive like anyone else.
The annoying thing is the people that want this girl to die so bad for no reason, are the same people 100% against killing people that rape and kill children. |
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The husband stopped medical care and rehab for her shortly after she won 2.6 million dollars in a law suit. The parents wanted to continue rehab. After the so called husband finds a girlfriend, and stands to inherit a couple million, he remembers her saying she didn't want to live in a coma. There is no written evidence of this and no evidence that this wasn't just two people watching the "karen ann quinlan story" and one of them says, "I wouldn't want to live like this" And in what world do we live where the parents who have nothing to gain are wrong to want to rehab her but the husband who will inherit millions, upon her death, is right? |
I wish they would just let this girl die in peace..American media sure beats you to death sometimes
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Actually, from what I've read there's not really much of the money left. One of his attorneys alone got over a half-million of it. |
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not only that, the husband has forbidden them from letting her try to eat orally on her own. she swallows her own saliva, there's a good chance she can swallow food. The real crime here is all the treatment the so called husband stopped his wife from receiving. |
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however, 2.6million + the 700k he got is 3.3mil - 500k is still 2.8mil at 5% interest, it makes 140k a year. not sure what it costs to keep her alive but I've also heard that medicare is footing the bill. |
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I know, how do they know this, I dunno but after so many years and so many battles, I would think they are pretty confident of this. |
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We're talking about starving a woman to death. There is plenty of evidence and testimony floating around to at least caste doubt on whats going on. We won't even kill a criminal when there's this much doubt. |
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He is correct. Its a very sad story and no one wants to see this lady suffer. However, its also very scary that our government thinks they can walk in, pass new law just to satisfy the religous right. Government interevention in our personal lifes is NOT a good thing people and this was exactly what that was. As of right now, 21 judges of out 22 have shown that Terri was given her due process and EVERY avenue was gone over to make sure her right were protected. While we may not like that this poor women has to die, the fact remains that the law was upheld and our system, weather you think its right or wrong, still works. Congress and the Religous Right needed to be bitch slapped for what they did and our Constitution did it yet again today. Its sad this ladies life was the test of it, but it would not have been if Ton Delay and those wacko religious right people didnt reinvent the system for their own political gain. |
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i see it as personal thing that i had to live through and for the sake of whatever fondness i have for you i am done with this topic. |
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But tomorrow any of us could be in a car accident and end up like this. Who will decide for you? Your spouse? Or your parents? I'd bet hardly anyone here has a liviing will addressing this point. Do you want the government to decide if your spouse says let you die, but your parents say keep you alive? That is why this case became so important in the news. Not only does it determine who gets to decide, it also will set legal precedent as to the power of the goverment over your life. To say this case if boring is unfair to the case. It is etremely important as it goes to the basic "right to life" issues that conservatives hold dear to their hearts and half the population holds exactly opposite. This is closely linked to the issue of what are the rights of an unborn fetus? What if the mother says I don't want this child, I'm getting and abortion, but the father to be says NO its half mine and I say let it live and give it to me? What if the government writes new laws that limit the decision making power of a couple to terminate a pregnency. This is why cases like this are so critical. Their outcome affects all of us. |
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This case has been litigated for 10 years. The husband gets to decided. Period. Case closed. Nothing new here. It is happening in every state every day. The only thing new that affects us is how Congress is willing to interfere in our lives in the most crass way for political gain. |
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