Removal of Feeding Tube (pray)

[angellous_evangellous]

As you all will know soon, Terri Schivo's feeding tube was removed this afternoon. Her doctors think that it will still take a week or two for her to die.

What are your feelings on this?

[Saw11_2000]

Needs to be done. I doubt that anyone would want to live that way, I certainly wouldn't. Although, I'm not sure about starving her...

[Jaymes]

May she pass to the next life peacefully. I only regret that we've held her back so long.

[BUDDY]

I think that it is so sad. I really feel sorry for her parents in all of this. They had no way to protect their daughter, and now they must watch her starve to death. I just want to cry. It breaks my heart. This is nothing more than state mandated murder. Her husband got his way and now he can continue his affair. I do think their are times when you must pull the plug (brain death, yet on breathing machine for example), but Terri is still alive. It is true that she can not feed herself, but she can still interact with people around her. I just can't believe that this is happening to her. I pray for her family.

[jewscout]

May her last days go peacefully and may she be welcomed by ministering angels

[angellous_evangellous]

Thanks for your thoughts.

[Saw11_2000]

Originally Posted by EEWRED

I think that it is so sad. I really feel sorry for her parents in all of this. They had no way to protect their daughter, and now they must watch her starve to death. I just want to cry. It breaks my heart. This is nothing more than state mandated murder. Her husband got his way and now he can continue his affair. I do think their are times when you must pull the plug (brain death, yet on breathing machine for example), but Terri is still alive. It is true that she can not feed herself, but she can still interact with people around her. I just can't believe that this is happening to her. I pray for her family.

If you were in this situation would you want to live?

I of course wouldn't want to be starved, I would want more lethal injection or something quick and painless.

I also think that her husband is a piece of $#*( trying to continue his affair like you said, but regardless of that, I'd rather die.

[BUDDY]

She had no living will. We don't know what she would have wanted done. Her parents seem to think that she would have wanted to continue to fight. So she can't eat on her own. Does that give anyone the right to starve her to death? Have you ever seen anyone starve to death? It is horrific. This is horrible. I can't believe what this country is coming to. Who are we to decide what life is legitimate and what life is not? Who gives us this right? Who are we to say, "Terri, you are not allowed to fight any more." She has been fighting against the dying of the light for so long, we are doing humanity a disservice.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[michel]

We had a case here, in the last month or so where the courts ruled that the doctors' recommendations that a baby of ten months not be rescusitated against the parent's wishes. It is a horrible predicament for which there is 'no win' for every one concerned.
My heart goes out to the parents.