[danamco]

I ask you what your evidence is for this wild suggestion, when I was suggesting the best outcome would be to discover an authentic written proof of Mrs. Schiavo's wishes. It was the Schindlers who admitted they would have violated Mrs. Schiavo's wishes even if that evidence was discovered. Though they later retracted their statements, it seems that you cannot accuse me without impugning them at least as strongly.


Is Terri dead or is she still alive???
If she died did she die a "natural" death???

[Gondring]

Your reply indicates that you care more about focusing on the death of Mrs. Schiavo than I do. I care about her rights, and the rights of all of us.

I suppose one could say that Mrs. Schiavo died a natural death, since if not for intervention by artificial medical technology, she would have expired back in 1990. But that's irrelevant. The important point is whether she died a death she'd have preferred, given her condition.

And in that case, I think we might possibly have let her down...not allowing a more humane active passing, rather than having to resort to "natural" death by removal of hydration. That's a distortion of prinicples, implying that disAbled people are somehow kept alive "artificially" if they require assistance. Again, we must focus on the rights, not on the "natural/artificial" aspects.