I swear to Goddess, if I live to be 100...

[themostepotente]

I will never understand how some people think. Has anyone been following the Terri Schiavo case?

For those of you that haven't the slightest clue as to what I'm talking about, here's a brief synopsis.

Terri Schiavo has been, and I quote, in a 'persistive vegetative state' for FIFTEEN years, and her poor husband who just wants to move on has been given shit in large doses for wanting to end her suffering. And now there's this big brouhaha over reinserting her feeding tube.

This woman is not going to just to snap out of it. She ain't getting better.

Fifteen years? How is relying on a feeding tube considered 'living?' Where is the fucking 'quality of life' these assholes protest in favor of by taping the word 'LIFE' over their mouths?

Oh, this fucking pisses me off. The staunch Republicans would have us live in the fucking stone age, I swear.

--P

Comments

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Darling my hubby and I have been following this and can't believe how her family can think she can get any better. She has the mental capability of a 6 month old and her brain stem is liquid, there is no coming back from that.

I can't believe they would doom her to decades of being trapped in her broken mind and body like that instead of letting her move on the hereafter.

I would never do that to my own children.

Her husband had tried everything that doctors suggested for 4 years to try and bring her back.
Yes he has moved on with another woman but stay legally married to Terri so she could be let free. He went through the money her parents claim he wants through her death to care for her.

I hate it when these holier than thou people claim it is a mortal sin and God's will for her to live..no God's will was for her to die 15 years ago when she had the heart attack. Free will that we as human beings have made the advances in medical science that has kept her alive and now it is time to let God's will be done and for her to pass on.

The federal gov't is stomping all over the State of Florida's courts and that is not right. They are stomping all over a family's personal matter that has been settled over and over again by 10 different judges and I pray to those above that the federal courts uphold them.

In the end..I have learned to make my wishes clear to all of those in my family..all and to have a DNR and Living Will...I never ever want to trapped like poor Terri.

Whew. /rant

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

God's will for her to live..no God's will was for her to die 15 years ago when she had the heart attack.

God is not that cruel. There is no religious ethics that could support this sort of thing, family proest or no. It's horrid.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

You're very passionate about your rants, Anne. I can see this bothers you just as much as it does me.

You more from a familial standpoint -- me from a medical one.