Posted on 06/15/2005 9:18:16 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
At a more fundamental understandiing of law -- at an inalienable level of Law, to use the founding father's term in an highly appropriate context -- it was illegal. It was murder.
That is not evident from the supports you provided. The electical neuro-stimulator (still there at her death according to autopsy) is evidence of an extra, but not extraordinary care. Mike, iirc from some news backgrounders, likes gadgets and may be a soft touch for a geeky salesman's pitch. Not so much care that would be, but speaks to impulse and "trying someting shiny and new".
Baubles and beads! Nice house and cars he and his concubine share, eh? Consistent to my theory.
And so too the expensive makeup. Not just normal makeup, but expensive makeup. Locked up it was, Mike kept the key, so a nurse or aide has testified. His press-ss-ciousss.
The decorated Terri.
"Meticulous for years". That is a rub. Impulse and meticulousness not normally associated. Yet they can be in some personality types -- the obsessive compulsive can be impulsive to wipe off the blood spot, and I've known some who are obsessive about some things yet impulsive and wild in others -- compartmentalizers. Folks who are spotless and clean, straight-arrows in one environment, yet wild, or super-wastrels, or violent in others.
Oh well gee that breaks my heart.
She finally passed away last June 18th peacefully in her sleep. I always fought the PVS thing, and she was also called "dementia" and "irreversable alzheimer's".
What a joke. I remember in the beginning of it (four years ago) the doctor said she wouldn't live two days. Within months she had fallen down to 86 lbs and she was 5'7" tall and looked like a concentration camp survivor. She didn't communicate at all - and her tongue moved in and out of her mouth so she could not speak.
We knew she was in there though - and had the feeding tube put in. She battled back to 138 or so lbs from 86 and held her first grandchild in her lap. By that time she could speak again although it was very hard to understand her.
If I had a buck for everytime the doctors wanted us to "pull the feeding tube" on my Mom, I'd have enough for a very expensive dinner.
She never regained bladder control, but if you put her ON the john, she could go. She was also almost blind. She fought for her life like a tiger and I wasn't going to help her along.
The last two weeks she was sleeping a lot, no fever, nothing, and she passed peacefully during a nap.
I have never said that I suspected Mr. Schavio of anything, without proof.
However now that we have the autopsy report, we definitely know that the "bulimia" story is a crock of crap. NO SIGN of an eating disorder whatsoever.
I wonder if Mr. Schavio will return the $1 he got out of her doctors unjustly. Or even apologize.
You've got THAT right! Hear, hear.
t'aint that easy.
Living Wills have also been used to deny care to people.
Are you being targeted for euthanasia? (Schiavo case only the tip of the iceberg)
That is their general function, to counter what used to be nearly unanimous bias in favor of life on the parts of the medical and legal communities. The default used to be to provide care (i.e., "patient's best interest is to live").
Those biases are changing too.
But I'm talking about people who aren't dying.
I was too.
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