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.

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Comments

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

The fact that they're pulling out her food tube and letting her starve to death is completely disturbing.

Why this way, huh? Why not a lethal injection? Why not something quick and painless?

This daughter is lying there, a good part of her brain damaged for years, and a guard is posted next to her. No family member can get close to rub ice on her cracked, dehydrated lips. What little could be going on inside her head, if there is anything left to "go on"...what does she think about it? Yes, she didn't want to live like this, but who wants to die in such a way?

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

The only 'humane' way to end her suffering is euthanasia. That less than half life she's living now is WORSE than death