Let her go....

Published on February 23, 2005 By dharmagrl In Current Events

Teri Schiavo, the Florida woman who has been in what some physicians have described as a 'persistent vegetative state' since an illness 15 years ago has been granted a 48 hour reprieve whilst a Florida court determines whether her husband is 'fit' to be her legal guardian. Link

Her husband has been trying for years to have her feeding tube removed and to let her die. Her parents have been fighting him.

This woman's life has been reduced to nothing. She can't walk, talk, feed herself, dress herself...she appears to smile and react to her family, but no-one can be sure that's what she's doing because she cannot communicate with them. She has the mental capacity of a newborn infant, and the physical strength to match. She's not living, she's simply existing...and her existence has been reduced to a string of court cases, angry words and publicity stunts.

Teri's been trying to die for years. Her husband wanted to let her go, to give her a little dignity...but her folks and even Jeb Bush have fought to keep her alive, albeit artificially. Instead of letting nature take it's course, they've been using artifical measn to keep her alive for 15 years now.

Teri Schiavo is the reason I have advance medical directives attached to my will. I've made my wishes very clear....if, for some reason, fate leads me to end up in a circumstance similar to Teri's, I want to die. I don't want to be trapped in a body that has failed me, having someone change my diaper, feed, bathe and dress me. I don't want to be fed artifically, I don't want to have to have someone wipe drool from my chin....I just want to be left to pass away as nature intended.

It occurred to me as I was reading the MSNBC article...we hear about what Teri's husband wants, and then we hear about what Teri's parent's want...but do we really know what Teri herself would have wanted? If she could speak, what do you think she'd have to say?

Comments (Page 3)

A Paul Hinton

on Mar 31, 2005

From what I have heard her husband, (if you can call him that while living with another woman,and having children etc. ) Thought he needed nearly two million dollars to rehabilitate her. After he got the moola,decides she can't be rehabilitated,and begins his efforts to have her murdered by starvation. Who gets the money then?
This sadistic judge appoints a bunch of quacks that with out the aid of the the latest medical resources determines she is in a vegetative state, and though she has never signed a living will, on the hearsay of her now very rich so called husband, they take the position of God and say she must die,and not only must she die she must not have even a piece of ice to cool her parched lips. This atrocity on a helpless woman will be forever a reminder of what a great nation we are, and what a bunch of gutless wonders we have consented to govern us. If I were governor or president I would use my executive powers to save her life whatever the cost. The ones who are so mentally demented that they think they are doing Teri a favor by starving her to death would be placed in prison and not given a bite to eat or drink until they began to starve, then we could have a meeting of the minds and debate a week or so as to whether they might like a drop of water or a piece of ice for their parched lips. I am an OUTRAGED AMERICAN AND SO ASHAMED OF OUR SO CALLED LEADERS.

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