The brainwashing around the "Schiavo" case... (page 2)

SheilaM

No, problem Mac. What kills me is her face LIGHTS up when she sees her Mom. >>>>damn

Brummie

she is just trapped in her own body. I'm pretty sure you've seen the footage and heard sound bites of her trying to communicate with her family. It really looks like she's trying her best

See this is the issue, we havent discovered a way to communicate with her, this in no way calls for the death sentence, how horrid! We can try harder to learn how to communicate, surely. She would have learned her own way of obsering life and enjoying it to the best of her ability, the fact that she is responding to her environment shows she is alive and functioning in a different way that we.

Kenneson

Isn't it a crime to starve an animal to death? How, then, can they justify starving a person to death?

Tigerman

Once again I ask, can anyone tell me how this poor woman who is incapacitated and bedridden for fifteen years not be in pain ? I believe she has been in pain from the time her body started to react to the extreme non-activity, probably about two weeks into her ordeal. Are there any professionals reading this that can enlighten me?

DanTheMan

i do feel its not something the federal government should be deciding.

Right on. The party that for decades railed against big, intrusive federal government, has now become the party of big, intrusive federal government. The irony.

SheilaM

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Tigerman

Sheila,

If your post was in response to my question, I was referring to the extreme non-activity of her body, not her brain.

Paul

Valis

I was watching CNN and this doctor said most of her brain has turned into something akin to gelatin and it is the part of her brain that controls motor functions that is left. If that really is the case then there is no hope of regeneration of brain cells or any other miracle that would bring her back into the world of the living. Sad really she cannot just slip gently away and not have all the political whores and fundamentalist freaks using her to bolster their agends.

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

DanTheMan

Sad really she cannot just slip gently away and not have all the political whores and fundamentalist freaks using her to bolster their agends.

amen brother

SheilaM

Starving her to death is not letting her slip away. If she truly were in a PVS her chances for survial at 15 years is 1 in 75,000. This leads one to believe either she is the ONE or she is not in a PVS, since Doctor's do not agree on this issue. Since the fact of cell regenertaing is a new thougth HOW THE FUCK are they so damn sure. There is a big difference is she was on the cusp of death, she wasn't until they took the tube out. A TUBE her husband demanded be inserted in the first place. Mac PM'd me said he is out of posts and asked me to please post this for him. Christopher Reeves was our hero.. Superman till his last breath.. His physical capabilities were limited to little more than his ability to form words... What if his mouth had been muted?

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