[CitizenM]

Char, this is the only thing you have ever posted that made me just say "Eeeeeewwww," "Yuck."

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Oh, BTW has everyone heard the Zogby Report on the Schiavo tragedy?

79% of those surveyed DISAGREED with the removal of Terri's feeding tube. I can't remember how the remaining percentages were split - but it was between: "Agree" and "Not sure," (I think)

That slaps those TV twits who call themselves commentators, and those liberal talking heads, and the Dumocrats who said WE were in the minority. They got it wrong, wrong, wrong again. They just should have looked at the Bush 2004 map and figured the answers from there. Seeeesch! 79% WOW!

[SaltyJoe]

I think this why prisoners are in the sights of the culture of death.

[Chairman Fred]

A suggestion: a wrongful-death lawsuit against Michael Schiavo and maybe Judge Greer, alleging denial of due process.

Maybe Mr. Schiavo can be prevented from profiting from killing his wife.

[TheHound]

I agree, well said by the author.

[Aliska]

I have thought donating organs to be a good thing. It is my understanding the catholic church allows it. If what is written here is true, they should not be allowing it.

It sounds like another form of legalized murder. I'll have to do some more reading on it before I would advise people not to do it.

Success stories of organ transplants have always seemed bitter sweet to me. Sweet because a person and especially when it is a child gets a chance at a more or less normal life, bitter because another human had to die for them to have that chance.

[eccentric]

New wording on Drivers liscense "Give me nutrition and hydration and leave my organs alone!"

[diamond6]

bttt

[Christian4Bush]

btttt

[FairOpinion]

Just as some stories tilt too much one way, this one tilts too much the other way.

One of the doctors who examined Terri's videotapes, was a woman doctor neurologist, whose specialty was exactly to determine who are the patients neurologically so far gone, so that their organs could be harvested. She determined that she would never consider Terri as an organ donor, because she was not in that kind of shape.

This said to me, that doctors do make a neurological assessment and they are fair -- considering her specialty, she could have come down on the side of those who just couldn't wait to kill Terri, but she didn't.

This tells me that doctors making those kinds of life and death decisions, are indeed taking their diagnosis seriously and are fair.

I hope people don't change their minds about being organ donors on account of this story.

[lizma]

EEG's measure cortical function, not brain stem function. The cortex controls purposeful movement and thought. The brain stem controls basic life support, i.e. lungs, heart, etc. Brain dead is a flat EEG (no cortical function).I think this is medically legit and these guys are wrong about this.

What I can't figure out is how closing your eyes for prayer, laughing at jokes and being glad to see your mother medically proves you have a flat EEG?

[CyberAnt]

Several years ago there was a movie called "Coma" - everybody should rent that movie. It too will scare the hell out of you - it's about organ donors.

[CHARLITE]

Ping

[k2blader]

BUMP

[Vor Lady]

A friend of mine's brother was a transplant surgeon and he explained the whole gruesome procedure to us over a Thanksgiving turkey. On the following Monday, I changed my driver's license back to non donor status!