Post by T. Miller on Mar 30, 2005 8:03:41 GMT -5
I am really hopeful Terry Schiavo will die soon. I am sick of how this thing is all blown up, and in the name of human rights and mercy, that entire point is completely forgotten.
So many people opposed the removal of the feeding tube supporting her life, saying that it is essentially forced suicide and people playing God. I consider being forced to spend such an extended time as that on life support a forced Hell and the people enforcing that are playing God just as much as if they yanked the life support.
This whole deal is against the husband's wishes, and speculated to be against Terry's wishes. Fair enough - who in their right mind would desire to be kept artificially alive for that long? The Schindlers seem to have difficulty understanding that medical decisions about this sort of thing fall to the next of kin, which is no longer the parents once someone is married. I also think the longer they keep her alive like this, since they are unable to let go of her yet, defaces her living memory that her parents may cherish. Think of it this way - you have a wonderful day of puppies and sunshine, then drive past a horrible gruesome wreck. You want to preserve the memory of the puppies and sunshine, but that wreck's going to be popping into your mind for a very long time, blocking the more pleasant images. So it is here. Keeping someone like this is offensive to their memory when there is no hope of coming back.
And the false hope she'll be back? Once the cortex is liquified, there's not a damn thing you can do. Perhaps if we did stem-cell research (gasp!) we would find a way around this since those cells generate nervous and cerebral matter in the first place, but some people let their jerk reactions get in the way of solid thinking.
For Terry's sake, I hope she passes on soon, and peacefully. She's waited far too long for it, deserves better, and her family's lives can move forward instead of wallowing in this pool of stagnation they've dug for themselves.
So many people opposed the removal of the feeding tube supporting her life, saying that it is essentially forced suicide and people playing God. I consider being forced to spend such an extended time as that on life support a forced Hell and the people enforcing that are playing God just as much as if they yanked the life support.
This whole deal is against the husband's wishes, and speculated to be against Terry's wishes. Fair enough - who in their right mind would desire to be kept artificially alive for that long? The Schindlers seem to have difficulty understanding that medical decisions about this sort of thing fall to the next of kin, which is no longer the parents once someone is married. I also think the longer they keep her alive like this, since they are unable to let go of her yet, defaces her living memory that her parents may cherish. Think of it this way - you have a wonderful day of puppies and sunshine, then drive past a horrible gruesome wreck. You want to preserve the memory of the puppies and sunshine, but that wreck's going to be popping into your mind for a very long time, blocking the more pleasant images. So it is here. Keeping someone like this is offensive to their memory when there is no hope of coming back.
And the false hope she'll be back? Once the cortex is liquified, there's not a damn thing you can do. Perhaps if we did stem-cell research (gasp!) we would find a way around this since those cells generate nervous and cerebral matter in the first place, but some people let their jerk reactions get in the way of solid thinking.
For Terry's sake, I hope she passes on soon, and peacefully. She's waited far too long for it, deserves better, and her family's lives can move forward instead of wallowing in this pool of stagnation they've dug for themselves.