An Important Case
I read this transcript of ABC News' Nightline when Michael Schiavo was interviewed earlier this week along with his lawyer, George Felos. Boy, those two are slick!
Quote #1:
"Terry will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away. This happens across this country every day.
Death through removing somebody's nutrition is very painless. That has been brought to the courts many of times. Doctors have come in and testified. It is a very painless procedure."
What is up with that? I guess removing someone's nutrition and hydration isn't the same as starving them to death. Maybe I'm clueless. I don't see the difference. And I can't imagine it being a painless procedure.
Quote #2:
"BURY (the interviewer): The parents also argue that you have moved on with your life, that you now have children that you're with, another woman, and that you could, essentially, divorce Terri and relinquish guardianship to them. Why don't you do that?
SCHIAVO: If I moved on with my life — and I moved on with a portion of it — but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise."
I wonder exactly which promise he's referring to, and why that promise is more important than the promise to remain faithful to his wife.
I read on another blog the story of a woman in a similar situation to Terri's. She has since recovered, and says she was able to understand everything happening around her, but couldn't communicate. The doctors said she was in a vegetative state, unable to feel anything. They were way off on that one.
I know a lot has been written about this story. It seems like overdoing it to even add my two cents' worth. But this case is huge! The Michael Schiavo's of the world are arguing that this "taking off of life support" happens all the time across the country, and it's wrong to be making a big deal about this one, single case, just because Terri has become something of a celebrity. I disagree.
Quote #1:
"Terry will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away. This happens across this country every day.
Death through removing somebody's nutrition is very painless. That has been brought to the courts many of times. Doctors have come in and testified. It is a very painless procedure."
What is up with that? I guess removing someone's nutrition and hydration isn't the same as starving them to death. Maybe I'm clueless. I don't see the difference. And I can't imagine it being a painless procedure.
Quote #2:
"BURY (the interviewer): The parents also argue that you have moved on with your life, that you now have children that you're with, another woman, and that you could, essentially, divorce Terri and relinquish guardianship to them. Why don't you do that?
SCHIAVO: If I moved on with my life — and I moved on with a portion of it — but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise."
I wonder exactly which promise he's referring to, and why that promise is more important than the promise to remain faithful to his wife.
I read on another blog the story of a woman in a similar situation to Terri's. She has since recovered, and says she was able to understand everything happening around her, but couldn't communicate. The doctors said she was in a vegetative state, unable to feel anything. They were way off on that one.
I know a lot has been written about this story. It seems like overdoing it to even add my two cents' worth. But this case is huge! The Michael Schiavo's of the world are arguing that this "taking off of life support" happens all the time across the country, and it's wrong to be making a big deal about this one, single case, just because Terri has become something of a celebrity. I disagree.
3 Comments:
speak to a hospice nurse and ask them about dehydration. it is not a painful procedure.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7257835/
Experts say Terri Schiavo would experience no discomfort if allowed to die, as the part of her brain that experiences pain is unlikely to be functioning.
You really should educate yourself before getting all riled up over issues that you do not have the FACTS about.
by the way ... having a stroke is quite different than lacking oxygen to the brain for several minutes and becoming brain dead.
these cases are NOT the same by any stretch of the imagination.
go find a medical dictionary and look up "stroke" and "lack of oxygen to the brain" .... not even remotely similar.
Cerebral cortex destroyed
This is because in such patients, the cerebral cortex has been destroyed, said Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman, a physician and bioethicist at the University of California, San Diego.
“Four to six minutes of anoxia, lack of oxygen, destroys that completely,” Schneiderman wrote in comments posted on the Internet at http:/seeingthedifference.berkeley.edu/schneiderman.html
tell me .. why post things before you educate yourself? do the RESEARCH
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