Congress reaches deal in Schiavo legal battle
But should congress?
Up until the Schiavo case, congress and the rest of the world stayed out of these issues allowing families to do their battles locally in the courts and as privately as possible. But, because the parents aren't getting their way they took it to the media and of course the husband looks like the bad guy. I've read all the stuff everyone on the parents side has asked us to read, and I don't think I'm hard hearted, I just think we give a better ending to our pets than we do to a human who is no longer like themselves.
I don't like the idea of starving her to death and maybe that's where everyone gets upset. So why aren't we doing something about that instead of fighting the husband on the right to allow Terri to die? One thing I realized when reading all the stuff about Terri, her parents are great at propaganda. If they can't win one way, they'll win another way, but they won't give up. Her mother even refers to Terri as her little girl, when in fact the woman is 41. But technically... she's about as intelligent as a newborn baby. I'm sure we all want to live our lives out like that don't we?
I guess my over all gripe is that the courts have no business being involved in this. IF they want to change the rules all of a sudden, then by god do it without it being directly involved to a case being fought with the media on one side. I'm really tired of this Government dictating to us how to live. And have you noticed we're always shown a photo of Terri smiling, it's the same photo over and over again from 2001.
It would be easy to pass her care onto her parents, since we think her husband doesn't want it and how easy it would be for him to do so. He has to hear how he only wants the death insurance. How can anyone even believe there is anything left after 13 years? IF there is a life insurance, it most likely would not even begin to cover the amount of money it has taken to keep here alive - lying there, girgling like an idiot. Surely it's not so much money that any of us would risk being thought of as uncaring, evil and a number of other bad personality quirks by the entire world.
But all of that aside, if we passed Terri to her parents who are we really thinking of? Not Terri. Congress isn't thinking of Terri, they're thinking of what their constituents want. The parents aren't thinking of Terri, their thinking of their own loss if she dies. I'm not even sure Terri's husband is thinking completely of Terri, I think maybe it's now about winning rather than what's best for Terri. If anyone really gave a damn about Terri, they would put her to sleep as peacefully as we put our pets to sleep.
Up until the Schiavo case, congress and the rest of the world stayed out of these issues allowing families to do their battles locally in the courts and as privately as possible. But, because the parents aren't getting their way they took it to the media and of course the husband looks like the bad guy. I've read all the stuff everyone on the parents side has asked us to read, and I don't think I'm hard hearted, I just think we give a better ending to our pets than we do to a human who is no longer like themselves.
I don't like the idea of starving her to death and maybe that's where everyone gets upset. So why aren't we doing something about that instead of fighting the husband on the right to allow Terri to die? One thing I realized when reading all the stuff about Terri, her parents are great at propaganda. If they can't win one way, they'll win another way, but they won't give up. Her mother even refers to Terri as her little girl, when in fact the woman is 41. But technically... she's about as intelligent as a newborn baby. I'm sure we all want to live our lives out like that don't we?
I guess my over all gripe is that the courts have no business being involved in this. IF they want to change the rules all of a sudden, then by god do it without it being directly involved to a case being fought with the media on one side. I'm really tired of this Government dictating to us how to live. And have you noticed we're always shown a photo of Terri smiling, it's the same photo over and over again from 2001.
It would be easy to pass her care onto her parents, since we think her husband doesn't want it and how easy it would be for him to do so. He has to hear how he only wants the death insurance. How can anyone even believe there is anything left after 13 years? IF there is a life insurance, it most likely would not even begin to cover the amount of money it has taken to keep here alive - lying there, girgling like an idiot. Surely it's not so much money that any of us would risk being thought of as uncaring, evil and a number of other bad personality quirks by the entire world.
But all of that aside, if we passed Terri to her parents who are we really thinking of? Not Terri. Congress isn't thinking of Terri, they're thinking of what their constituents want. The parents aren't thinking of Terri, their thinking of their own loss if she dies. I'm not even sure Terri's husband is thinking completely of Terri, I think maybe it's now about winning rather than what's best for Terri. If anyone really gave a damn about Terri, they would put her to sleep as peacefully as we put our pets to sleep.
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