The Right to Die ...
Poor Terri Schiavo! What a very, very sad story this is ... and it's been dragging on for 15 years!
I would like to officially state that I do not ever, ever want to be KEPT "alive" like that for such a long time. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be existing under such circumstances -- even if I had a functioning mind trapped in a vegetative body, I don't think I would want to go on and on and on without a means to communicate.
And while I am certainly sympathetic towards her parents and understand that they were hoping that she would recover, I also consider it torture to keep your child alive like that.
Finally, I have heard that Terri's husband, Michael, cannot divorce her because she is not competent to go thru a divorce procedure. If this is true, then I find it incredible that Terri's family is lamblasting Michael -- he has tried to go on with his life and they resort to name-calling because of it.
posted by dddragon at 2:06 PM
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Yeah. It's all so sad. I think part of what happens is, first you keep the loved one alive hoping they'll recover. She was only 26 when this started, so maybe I can see how they hoped she'd get better. But then at some point, you have a new relationship with the person in the vegetative state. At this point, they love the brain-damaged, vegetative woman. And so after 15 years, I guess it feels like there's no going back for them. It would be helpful if the doctors could, after 6 months or less, say "We're sorry, but the odds of eventual recovery are virtually 0. You should consider letting her go." But of course, they'd never do that.
The whole thing is sad, sad, sad. I do know how it feels to lose a child. If Nivek had "lived" after his brain damage, I know that we would have let him go. It's so obvious that NO one would want to "live" an such a state.
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