Amazing, the ACLU, PETA, Nancy Pelosi et. al would be having a cow (literally) if this were a dog, cat, cow, TERRORIST, fish, bird, etc., etc., etc….

I am trying to make my decision about this case asuming that a husband and wife have discussed such matters, simply because life happens.
No one can say for certain that they will live to old age and die peacefully during sleep.

If anything, please let Terri’s case be the reason you let your loved ones and your doctor know how you feel, not only verbally, but in writing as well.

where’s the ACLU when you need them? Oh, off protecting some rebel fighter or death row inmate.

It is so easy to say pull the tube when it isn’t your child. Terry is not dying and is not on any kind of life support to keep her alive. If a person was completely brain dead, she could not respond to her parents when they talk to her. We have no idea what Terry is thinking or how she is feeling, and we certainly don’t know what went on in that home 13 years ago to cause her to be in this condition.

If Terry was in this condition when she first went into the hospital, how in the world could she have signed a living will. Her so called husband made the decision, not Terry. Too, any person who is married, and lives with another woman to begin a new family in my opinion is a bigamist. They would be considered married after this length of time and that is a criminal offense. He lost all his rights to Terry when he moved out for this other woman. Papers need to be served on him for this offense.

He received thousands of dollars from a lawsuit. He said he was going to use it for Terry’s attorney. Terry never has had an attorney. Where is all the money he received from this suit.

He didn’t divorce Terry, because there was a lot of money involved and he would not receive any.

If it was my child, I couldn’t let her go either. There is always that chance of life and not death. Just last week there was a woman who was in a coma for quite some some, and the parents didn’t give up. All of a sudden she came out ot it. Where there is breath, there is life. God didn’t bring her this far to leave her now. There is a reason for all of this. Maybe to expose the truth to all the lies that have been spoken. We all are in the hands of God, and if God wanted her to die, He could have taken her a long time ago with or without a feeding tube. Who are we to make a decision to take a child’s life (no matter what the age is),from their parents. We need to pray for Terry to live and not die. I really believe there is a miracle coming to her. Psalms 139 says he knew Terry before she was ever formed and conceived in her mother’s womb, and He has a plan and purpose for her as He has for us. We have a hughe prayer circle going for her and we are standing on His word. Please pray for her life, and don’t speak death to her.

You don’t know what you are talking about here. He doesn’t visit her. He has prevented her from listening to music or having any kind of stimulation or therapy. He threatened at one point to try and legally prevent her parents from visiting her. Just because you don’t want to be like Terri is no excuse to say she should be killed. Shameful. And done in this pleading “poor me-poor Terri” way.
17 medical doctors have stated that they think rehabilitaton is worthwhile for Terri Schiavo. Michael Schiavo will not allow it even though he was awrded over $1 million on the understanding he would use the money for rehabilitation. Now a Nobel Prize nominated doctor has just stated that he works with people who have suffered more brain damage than Terri and they recover some function. He has looked at Terri’s medical records and believes she would progress with rehabilitation. Wake up! This woman is not in a persistent vegetative state. She is a disabled woman who has been denied access to rehabilitative therapy, and the court is wanting to execute her.
Commenters who say “I have looked after people like Terri in persistent vegetative states” don’t know what they are talking about – because Terri is not in a persistent vegetative state. It astounds me that some people would recommend kiling a prson when they don’t even bother to find out the facts. “Oh just let her go” means kill her by slow starvation and deydration over a two week or more period. And to say that some-one should be killed like that when you don’t even bother to find out the truth displays a laziness of conscience which is deplorable.
As for overwhelming the server – I’m sure La Shawn would let us know if that was a problem.

I’m not sure how to contact the maximum number of ‘bloggers for terri’ so if others of you know how to do that, please forward this note for me. THANKS!
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When Terri’s plug is pulled she is not going to die in peace, she is going to suffer a horrible, miserable and lengthy death by starvation.

Perhaps when Christopher Reeves was plugged into a device which kept him alive, his wife might have said ‘sorry honey, I love you but because you’re misery is causing horrible suffering I am pulling the plug so you can die peacefully by suffocating to death and I can get on with my life’.

All this reminds me of the book/movie “The Beach”,
whenever human beings are suffering and in need of humanity the answer is to simply throw away their lives by dumping them out of sight (or pulling the plug) so that others can go on living their lives without suffering.

Those who wish to pull the plug are doing so not for the benefit of ending Terri’s suffering, they want to pull the plug in order to deny themselves the concept that human beings do face misery. It iis the courage to face misery which will lead us tto accept the truth in learning what is love.

We have a “death cult” (abortion, extermination) in our culture which is killing our humanity. This death cult believes that if humans who cause suffering become a drain on us then it is better to simply throw them away. Aborting the baby in the womb or pulling the plug are easy ways of not having to deal with our humanity.

Lashawn has a lovely blog, so let’s not let this posting overwhelm the server with these lengthy comments. The issues are clear:

1) The original poster was incorrect – you can’t say the brain damage is irreversible, if you haven’t attempted therapy. That therapy hasn’t been done.

2) To live without full function is not agonizing. It CAN seem like that to the friends and family, but the disabled individual may well find life worth living. Whether the family and friends find it stressful to compare the current life with one that could have been shouldn’t affect the decision to let life continue.

Fortunately the war ended before the Final Solution could be applied to the remaining deaf. Altho many did not survive the asylums, otherwise, there’d be a porpotionate number of them in the 60 to 100 year old range today.