What Terri Schiavo Still Can Teach Us

nationalreview.com ^ | March 31, 2016 | Bobby Schindler

[Talisker]

Jeez... What was the point of posting those?

[FamiliarFace]

Those tags say Lisa McPherson, who was treated the same way as Terri from the Church of Scientology IIRC.

[patlin]

There are lessons to be learned from this emotional rollercoaster case that never should have been. I suggest you read the ENTIRE article.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bioethicist-tk-n333536

Terri Schiavo died 10 years ago today — not long after her feeding tube was removed by order of a Florida judge acting at the request of Schiavo’s husband that his wife be allowed to die.

She was 41 and had spent nearly half her life in a vegetative state after suffering a cardiac arrest in 1990, causing a severe lack of oxygen and brain damage. The highly publicized legal case surrounding her husband's plea not to keep her artificially alive roused debates across the world and at the U.S. Supreme Court.

What is Schiavo’s legacy? What have we since learned about brain function, vegetative states, and how we should talk about death — long before we're gone?

Today, some families still battle at the bedside. The condition of Bobbi Kristina Brown, found facedown in a bathtub Jan. 31, had not changed as of March 20, and people within her famous family have engaged in a fight and public arguments.

Many of us still have not gained enough wisdom from the Schiavo episode. And the political and personal ripples of that moment remain as well.

continue reading the facts of the case at the link provided above

[little jeremiah]

Terri died of starvation and dehydration. If any person or even animal, has food and water with held from them, this is murder, or killing. It is not a natural death. The fact that Terri, and countless others, are killed by with holding basic nutrition and water, is a stain and crime against humanity. No human - or even animal - should die by forced starvation and dehydration.

[Monterrosa-24]

Calvin Coolidge was elected to the Vice Presidency via one strong stand on a police strike, “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anytime, anywhere.”

If Jeb Bush had not been a weenie in this case, and had sent a phalanx of state law enforcement to insure this young woman was not “dried to death”, he would have the GOP nomination wrapped up today.

[BykrBayb]

There’s a special place in hell for those who twist scripture to promote sin, especially murder.

[Dante3]

Absolutely. It was so horrific. At the time I didn’t expect to see it happen here. The Bush brothers could have prevented it. They did nothing.