This may be rude sounding..
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It is possible they had a coversation like many people do where you are just talking about, "what if?" Maybe she said if I ever look like so and so on the tv, I don't want to live like that. Maybe he is trying to do what she would want him to do. I think they had the tube pulled out years ago and it got re-inserted because her parents? I don't remember so much. Seriously though, think about it, 15 years, no improvement, no hope, very poor life(if you can call it one). Think about all of the money being used here, if they spent this much money and governement time on every person with a feeding tube etc, it would be insane. It is insane just what this has amounted to. Would you want to be alive if you were like her? I sure wouldn't. It is a very touchy issue.
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how much money has that guy spent on court cases though and all that...who knows maybe in a couple of days....she will make some sign that she wants to eat...and they will keep her alive for another 15 years....personally I think its stupid and she should not be kept alive...who would want to live like that.
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bah. this whole thing is retarded. you dont starve a person like that, no matter what the situation is. if someone did that to an animal, they would get arrested. yeah she has brain damage, but she responds to verbal commands, and like im sure most of you have seen, she responded to the blue balloon.
plus she is catholic. the whole family is catholic. they wanted a priest to be with her during her last few hours alive, as any catholic family would. her husband actually isnt letting the priest be with her, and sent police to her room. basically if the priest goes anywhere near her.. he will be arrested.
honestly i dont see how there is even a debate here. i dont see why the government thinks it can step in and let the husband pull the tube, when the entire family says no. doesnt an entire family overrule a husband?
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LT1 wrote:
wat the hell is this about, any links to an article?
You asians dont get out much, do you? come on...
Shes wasting her families and husbands money and i say she is no longer kept alive, If it werent for her eating disorder, would any of this have happened? NO. Who cares what her husbands motive is. She did this to herself. If he has a huge insurance policy on her, good for him. If your wife died, money would maybe help a lil bit to. -
I think they have to pull the tube because assisted suicide is illegal everywhere in the U.S. Most of the time people just pull the plug when they are in a vegetative state and it doesn't take long for them to die. In this situation it doesn't work exactly that way.
If I were in that situation I would not want to live on either.
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amicheze wrote:
bah. this whole thing is retarded. you dont starve a person like that, no matter what the situation is. if someone did that to an animal, they would get arrested. yeah she has brain damage, but she responds to verbal commands, and like im sure most of you have seen, she responded to the blue balloon.plus she is catholic. the whole family is catholic. they wanted a priest to be with her during her last few hours alive, as any catholic family would. her husband actually isnt letting the priest be with her, and sent police to her room. basically if the priest goes anywhere near her.. he will be arrested.
honestly i dont see how there is even a debate here. i dont see why the government thinks it can step in and let the husband pull the tube, when the entire family says no. doesnt an entire family overrule a husband?
In Florida, this is how the law is. She is brain dead. Yeah, her family found other doctors that said, oh there is activity, I don't buy it. Wow she can follow a balloon with her eyes, good progress for 15 years. I agree that she shouldn't be starved to death, but what do you do? Keep dumping millions of tax money into her? Or move on with things. You can't compare a human to an dog. If you do, I guarantee the dog would have been put to sleep very soon after the incident. Not to say that she should've been put to sleep, but after 15 years, something should be done, I think. She is living in a hospice, which is a government funded place right? (Say something if I am wrong). Now the family got the entire congress and president involved, I am sure that costs ALOT of money just to run for 1 day. Like I said, it is a tough situation. LT turn on the fricken radio or new channel, I bet you could find something talking about it right now.
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91nbtsi wrote:
In Florida, this is how the law is. She is brain dead. Yeah, her family found other doctors that said, oh there is activity, I don't buy it. Wow she can follow a balloon with her eyes, good progress for 15 years. I agree that she shouldn't be starved to death, but what do you do? Keep dumping millions of tax money into her? Or move on with things. She is living in a hospice, which is a government funded place right? (Say something if I am wrong). Now the family got the entire congress and president involved, I am sure that costs ALOT of money just to run for 1 day. Like I said, it is a tough situation. LT turn on the fricken radio or new channel, I bet you could find something talking about it right now.youre right. it has cost a lot of money in 15 years. but then you could get into an ethical debate about how much a human life is worth.. blah blah blah. basically i think that if they have decided to kill her, they shouldnt starve her to death. nobody wants a slow painful death.. if she can actually feel pain that is. they should just give her a shot like they give inmates and let it be over with. if theyre truly that concerned about money, they wouldve done that 2 weeks ago instead of dragging it on for that much longer.
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If they gave her a shot then that would be assisted suicide which is a felony I believe. If the courts allowed them to do that then that would open the floodgates for assisted suicides to be legalized.
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I can see both sides of it. The thing I think is odd about all of this is that her parents up til 7 years ago considered her in a vegetative state until her husband came into $1million of which he put 700,000 into a trust fund for her. Her parents filed bankruptcy around that same time and once the $700k was used up they changed their minds and stated that she is active and wanted him to use the other $300,000 that he received. Up until that time her parents were all for pulling the plug AND they encouraged him to see other people and move on because there was no chance for Teri...they even met a few of his dates. From the beginning he has said that it was her wish to not be kept on life support and that she had conveyed this to him, there are several witnesses who can attest to this.
I also agree that this is a cruel way to let someone die, but since Dr. Jack Kvorkian is in prison for assisting in a suicide, no medical professional will even consider euthanasia (sp?)
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I think LT not knowing what this is about is just as suprising on how long shaivos lasted.
If i was in her situation. I wouldnt wanna live my life doin absolutely nothing but laying in a bed. I would ask to just be given some kind of poison and just end it.
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^she cant talk...
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thanks, I try to keep up on all things political
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Ok it is a cruel way to let someone die. but seriously her brain is so damaged it's basically mush right now. Yeah she can go through thearpy but how much is that gonna do? This has gone on way too long, I agree. It's time that the family needs to let go. I know how hard it is, but its time. The more they keep fighting this the more expensive it gets. Thats just my opinion on the whole situation...
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