Terri Schiavo Case

This case has really been getting a lot of attention in the U.S. Congress is now intervening, attempting to pass legislation to force the feeding tube to be put back in her. It looks like the legislation will pass. What do you all think of this? If you are comfortable saying so, what are your reasons?

I will wait for awhile for other responses before stating my own opinion.

The problem is not whether Terry is allowed to die or not.  The problem is the inhumane way in which she has to die if she is allowed...

When my mother died, she had a massive coronary and they brought her partly back.. but she had no brain function whatsoever. After a week of testing.. and nothing, we had to detach her from the breathing tube. Watching her struggle for breath for those last few hours was the hardest thing us kids ever had to do. But it was only a couple of hours.. and she couldn't breath on her own... I still struggle with the memory.

This case in Florida is a lot different. She is breathing on her own, they want to stop feeding her... and that could take over a week for her to pass on. I think that is inhumane. How can you stand by and watch that for a week. I realize we don't even know if she feels anything, and from a religious standpoint, her soul could have already passed on... but to starve her to death...that just doesn't seem right.

For a condemned criminal, the State can decide to give him painless instant death with a lethal injection, but for our loved ones... we starve them to death.  We'd do more for a horse if he was suffering! 

I have to say that personally...while I tend to like more things the Republicans do than not, this one is rubbing me the wrong way. (I'm kind of a Christie Whitman type Republican...see her book for what I mean.)

I feel like they've tried to turn it into a political point-scoring game, and that's no way to regard a woman's life. If she's to live, then it should be the choice of the family. If she's to die, she should die without this kind of brouhaha for everyone to go through. The case started out as a nasty he-said, she-said, and now it's some damn political game. Personally my inclination is that this has been drawn out to horrible proportions both for Terri herself and for the family. If it were me, I would want people to allow me to die, for nature to take its course.

the president made a trip just to sign the paper, like right away. Keep in mind he didnt do anyhting for 3 hours when the sept 11 thing happened OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! he just sat there in the little kids classroom,trying to keep reading the book for the children. he was  looking mightly ill! (Because he camer acros a 4 syilible WORD AHAHAHAH!) serously though, our president is luny! oh and lets hope the old lady lives! lets hope that noone EVER FEELS PAIN AND DIES! GUYS !COMON. SHES GOT IT GOOD.!

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At first I thought she should live, but if the government is going to intervene...does that mean the public pays taxes for her? Let her die!

Euthansia for the terminally ill who are suffering or those who like Schiavo are in a permanently vegetative state has to be a legal option if we are to evolve.

JrKASperov wrote: Trotsky wrote: permanently vegetative state . lie. Prove it? We don't know -if she'll ever wake up (but the chance is dang well more worth it than letting her die) -if she actually IS in a vegetative state, meaning no thinking and all, modern physicians would have one believe a coma is nothing than a long sleep, thus thinking. If we let her die in such a state, it's murder in every way.

You're right Euthanasia is murder. Not in every way, though ... in a humane way.

You're also right ... who's to say some scientist somewhere isn't 3 days away from discovering a cure that will return someone like Ms. Schiavo to normal health? That's why I feel euthanasia should almost be like the organ donation thing. We should carry cards, or make living wills ... but there will always be loopholes ... I just saw footage last night where her brother implied that her husband initially stood to gain financially and wanted to marry someone else too ... 

I'm sure there would be all kinds of attempted violations if human beings were to allow euthanasia ... but are you telling me that there are no circumstances under which you would want yourself to be allowed to die? It might well happen to us one day ... it's probably happened to some of our loved ones already ...

It's not the most wonderful cause to have argue for ... but a new open-minded look at the possibility of assisted deaths for the terminally ill is something I would certainly welcome ... (of course most of you guys are in the "first world" where such a thing can be discussed ... in my neck of the woods, it remains taboo)

 

Well, I understand the answer is not easy, but I'm completely on the side of let her die (or better, kill her). Or maybe, because I know we are talking about the life of a vegetable with a human shape, the correct expressions would be "let it die" and "kill it". The human being that was there went away 15 years ago... Sorry I can't talk about her soul, first I'd need to believe in its existence, but I understand it adds some complexity for those of you who are believers.

And I don't want to start a nasty fight with this, but I want to add that I find quite intriguing that, as Threefates stated, for a condemned criminal, your State (you) can decide to give him painless instant death with a lethal injection, and many of you stay cold with that, whilst you make such a mess about the Schiavo case... I simply don't understand it...