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Quote from: King Tech II: Message Board Lord on March 31, 2005, 07:55:55 AMBlah, she died 15 years agoThat's the truth.I feel bad for the vegetable, nobody deserves to be starved to death. I used to be 100% anti-euthanasia, but in cases like this, the suffering should come to an end. I mean Christ, a dog gets better tratment.
Blah, she died 15 years ago
It's ironic that Americans called Iraqi insurgents savages for beheading their enemy's, and then these same American's turn around and pull out feeding tubes in hospitals and have patients starve to death for weeks. If I had to choose how to die, beheading would be the quickest, and least painful measure. Starving to death would be one of my last choices.
You'll see 8 times out of 10, that when somebody loses their wife or husband of decades, they could be 80 years old, and they'll often die within 6 months or so of each other. Why is that? Do you honestly think that's just a coincidence?
Maybe its me,but when exactly did it become humane to starve someone to death? Hopefully no one will ever do me that "favor".
Yall are all godless heathens that don't believe in Souls, so this will fall on deaf ears, but the reason Terry Schiavo stayed alive for 15 years in that hospital bed, is because she WANTED TO. she had the will of life.You're not going to live 15 years on a feeding tube in a hospital room unless your soul, your essense, whatever gives you the desire to go on day after day is intact. When you wake up in the morning, what is it that makes you want to get out of bed? It's human desire, it's the will and the want of self-preservation.It's my opinion that if Terry Schiavo wanted to die, there aren't enough doctors in the world to keep her body going. Lets face it: She only needed help EATING. She breathed on her own, her heart beat on it's own. She couldn't move her mouth and her throat to swallow. Go to a graveyard, and walk around and look at the tombstones. I've done it countless times... look at the dates, on the really old couples, that have been married for decades. You'll see 8 times out of 10, that when somebody loses their wife or husband of decades, they could be 80 years old, and they'll often die within 6 months or so of each other. Why is that? Do you honestly think that's just a coincidence?It's not. The reason that happens is because after their loved one is gone, they give up the will to live. They actually allow themselves to die, they lose the fire that keeps them going every morning when they get out of bed. They get to a point mentally, that their mind no longer wants their body to keep functioning, so slowly they turn worse, and often their dead within a year of their loved one.Terry Schiavo lived 15 years in a hospital bed, because she hadn't given up her will to live.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Now; with all that said, ultimately, it's legally her husband's right to decide for her, since she was incapacitated. I think it was within his right, and even his obligation as a husband to decide one way or the other for her, even though I disagree with what he decided. To me, the whole thing smells funny, especially since he's living with a girl and has two kids with her. Ultimately, though, it was his right to 'pull the plug' and let his own wife STARVE TO DEATH. I don't think the courts should have ever been involved, it's cut and dry; he's the next of kin, it's his decision, not her parents. The day they were married, she became his responsibility, her parents have no concern legally over her anymore.I'm usually against Civil Disobediance, but I gotta applaud the college kids that got busted sneaking bread and water into her hospice. That's the best act of civil disobediance I've ever heard of. Hilarious even.I heard an argument on t.v. last night, that was very, very interesting. One guy was saying "Why do you want her to die so much?" the pro tube puller said "I resent you saying we want her to die, we all want nothing but the best for her" and the guy said"Well then give her some Food"It really is that fucking simple. It's just food. A baby can't eat either, you have to help a baby eat. that doesn't mean we pull the fucking plug and stop feeding them. Really, it's asinine.
I work at hospitals and nursing homes.