Terri Schiavo
Mar. 22nd, 2005 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinpraLast week I was all for Michael Schiavo disconnecting his wife's feeding tube and ending her life. As 1010 WINS kept saying, "Schiavo is in a permanent vegatative state." And we all know what that's like: the body's alive but the mind has taken a hike.
That was until I saw her. Either CNN or MSNBC, or maybe even Fox News ran the first pictures allowed to be taken of Terri Schiavo in two years. "What do you mean by allowed" you say? Well the judge overseeing her case ordered that Terri not be seen, not go out, not even have her window opened. Why? I can't think of too many reasons other than that people would see that Terri Schiavo is alive inside. No she's not the same woman she was before she went into a coma, but no is the same after a serious injury. Ever. They wouldn't be called life-changing events otherwise. And no I'm not comparing Terri Schiavo's injury to breaking a leg or some such thing. But, since I did bring up leg-breakage, what are you supposed to do if you do break a leg? You get back up on it and work it until it heals. The very thing the judge on Terri Schiavo's case wouldn't do. She was never given an MRI. Why not find out just how much there Terri has there? Why not let the many groups offering to attempt mental and physical rehabilitation try. There have been x-amount of doctors saying that Terri Schiavo will never heal. What about the other doctors who said there was a posibility?
Like fetuses, does this now mean that the retarded are less than human too? Should we go back to willfully killing them and testing them? And yes, I said "back." The US has had a secret history of experimenting on such undesirables. Where do you think the Nazis got it from? This is the precedent we're setting. If Terri Schiavo were really gone then keeping her alive would be a pity and a sin. But if there is a possibility for rehabilitation -- if only to the point where she could answer the question for herself whether or not she wants to keep the feeding tube -- then why not try it? Why? And if they really want to kill her that badly, then why not just do it. This isn't a switch that, once flipped, will end Terri Schiavo's life in moments or hours. It will take up to three weeks. Three weeks. Of starving. And thirst. And for the experts that say it doesn't hurt...please when you're dying and you have to do without such basics come back and tell us what it was like. Tell us whether that glassy-eyed expression is from the release of pain...or being overwhelmed by it.
That was until I saw her. Either CNN or MSNBC, or maybe even Fox News ran the first pictures allowed to be taken of Terri Schiavo in two years. "What do you mean by allowed" you say? Well the judge overseeing her case ordered that Terri not be seen, not go out, not even have her window opened. Why? I can't think of too many reasons other than that people would see that Terri Schiavo is alive inside. No she's not the same woman she was before she went into a coma, but no is the same after a serious injury. Ever. They wouldn't be called life-changing events otherwise. And no I'm not comparing Terri Schiavo's injury to breaking a leg or some such thing. But, since I did bring up leg-breakage, what are you supposed to do if you do break a leg? You get back up on it and work it until it heals. The very thing the judge on Terri Schiavo's case wouldn't do. She was never given an MRI. Why not find out just how much there Terri has there? Why not let the many groups offering to attempt mental and physical rehabilitation try. There have been x-amount of doctors saying that Terri Schiavo will never heal. What about the other doctors who said there was a posibility?
Like fetuses, does this now mean that the retarded are less than human too? Should we go back to willfully killing them and testing them? And yes, I said "back." The US has had a secret history of experimenting on such undesirables. Where do you think the Nazis got it from? This is the precedent we're setting. If Terri Schiavo were really gone then keeping her alive would be a pity and a sin. But if there is a possibility for rehabilitation -- if only to the point where she could answer the question for herself whether or not she wants to keep the feeding tube -- then why not try it? Why? And if they really want to kill her that badly, then why not just do it. This isn't a switch that, once flipped, will end Terri Schiavo's life in moments or hours. It will take up to three weeks. Three weeks. Of starving. And thirst. And for the experts that say it doesn't hurt...please when you're dying and you have to do without such basics come back and tell us what it was like. Tell us whether that glassy-eyed expression is from the release of pain...or being overwhelmed by it.