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Post by Pay No Mind on May 9, 2005 21:17:14 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure you have heard about Terri (I dunno how to spell her last name) But the woman that they where arguing over her feeding tube. The husband wanted to take it out and let her die. Well they did and she eventually starved to death. But now.....There is the fire fighter, the one that has been like paralyzed for years now but all of a sudden he is learning again to speak and walk and to do stuff on his own...
What does that say about Terri?
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Post by ria on May 9, 2005 21:20:24 GMT -5
ahhh you beat me to making this thread!
I was so pissed about the whole thing, what right does anybody have to starve the woman to death? I think it's so wrong and just ridiculous, the way the world is and the way our laws are. How do they know she couldn't survive and get better? Doctors are wrong all the time, it's so messed up...
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Post by Pay No Mind on May 9, 2005 21:22:35 GMT -5
Exactly....No one will ever know if that woman could have gotten up and walked again or if she could have talked again...
Didn't they say that she showed signs of improvement?
I need to find an article on it....
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Post by && We Will Become Silhouettes on May 10, 2005 14:12:56 GMT -5
wow.. that's creepy because I was gonna start a thread on it too...
Anyway I agree with you guys. I mean who would have known. that girl could have gotten up and started doing things again.
I mean I also see the other peoples side to it but really. I think you should give the person as long as possible, and when it is truly not going to happen short of a phenomenal miracle. well. I don't know.
I mean most people if that were to happen to them would want to die naturally. I was reading an article last night. Bunny you're subscribed to the same magazine... and the woman had basically been gone except her heart was still going. She was unable to do things again and she had talked it over with the family that if she wouldn't be her regular self and she couldn't be/talk to her son then she would rather be taken off life support....
and it was the husbands decision. But I really did go with her parents on that one. she wasn't so far gone she couldn't recover.
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Post by Pay No Mind on May 10, 2005 14:32:46 GMT -5
I'm not one for taking people off life support but I do understand that sometimes there is absolutely nothing you can do...The person is basically dead and the only thing that has them living is the machines.....But only if there was like a 0% chance of them even making it another day then that would be fine to let them go... But in Terri's case..The woman still was alive...There where words that she could say..She was responding to things....Personally I think with medicine today..She could have made it... I found a link with tons of imformation on it... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_SchiavoIt's a lot of info and I haven't read it all yet....I found it last night and reading just wasn't working for me... |
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Post by && We Will Become Silhouettes on May 10, 2005 14:35:38 GMT -5
I noticed that last night haha...
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Post by americanpsycho on Jul 8, 2005 14:10:29 GMT -5
Okay, sure she could have gotten better, but to what extent? She was in a vegetable state. People like that can't move on their own, the can't eat on their own, heck, sometimes they can't even breathe on their own. She could barely pronounce words. She was suffering from not being about to do anything. I know full well, if I couldn't do anything by myself, I'd want to be taking off life support. Think about it. People in vegetable states can show signs of improvement, but if they actually get better is a totally different case. Take my grandfather for example. He had lung cancer and was hospitalized because he couldn't breathe properly. While there he showed major signs of improvement. Like he started breathing normally. He was happy. The doctors actually went so far as to say he would be able to leave in a couple of days because he was doing so good. But then one day out of the blue, he fell into a coma and passed away shortly after. So you see, even though she was getting better, it doesn't mean she would have gotten better. You have to face the facts that she may never have gotten better. She also might have. But if you spend 15 years of your life on life support without getting better, chances are that you never will. It's sad, but true..
I am fully behind the decision of her husband because he did love her very much and he understood that he would never see her again if he pulled the plug. But sometimes, if you love someone, you have to let them go. And that's what he did. And she's probably better now wherever she is more than she would have ever been on earth.
However I disagree with starving her to death. That's just.. one of the worst ways to go. your stomach starts eating itself up.. and ick.
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Post by && We Will Become Silhouettes on Jul 9, 2005 15:28:01 GMT -5
my grand aunt how just died last week, she had numbers of things wrong with her and I don't know the full details but she just wasn't getting any better, and I mean she had reached a ripe old age, and it pained a lot of people when she died because she lived in a small town and everyone knew her. I believe she was on life support and since there would be no recovery for she was too far gone they took her off. I mean I understand and respect why they would do that, but I think my reaction to all of it is that it's just very sad.. very very sad.
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Post by americanpsycho on Jul 15, 2005 21:15:22 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that.
And well, yeah, I would imagine so. It hurts to lose a loved one. It really does, but it's better than having to watch her go through everyday, without a chance of getting better. But just the fact that you know she will no longer be suffering helps in the process of getting over the loss. Don't you think?
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Post by Pay No Mind on Jul 15, 2005 21:37:05 GMT -5
I think that if there is a good chance you shouldn't take them off....
But if the chances are slim to none then I guess it would be better to just let them go...
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Post by Little Miss Vampiress on Jul 16, 2005 18:50:56 GMT -5
I think that if there is a good chance you shouldn't take them off.... But if the chances are slim to none then I guess it would be better to just let them go... ^^ I agree with that... |
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Post by && We Will Become Silhouettes on Jul 19, 2005 13:46:53 GMT -5
you didn't have to quote that, it's right above your post...
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Post by americanpsycho on Jul 19, 2005 15:11:10 GMT -5
Yeah but, Erin there's so many opinions on this page, I would have never known what she was talking about..
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Post by && We Will Become Silhouettes on Jul 19, 2005 20:06:07 GMT -5
^^sticking up for her eh?
<33 michelle, the arrows tell it all.
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