From what I've read here http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html and a number of other places, she can't actually do any of those things. Her brain scans were leaked to the 'net yesterday and there isn't anything there that can control speech. And she can't swallow, that part of her brain is gone. The words to the contrary seem to me to be desperate hope, which you can't fault the parents for, but I do fault the federal government for becoing involved in a state matter. It's already been through the courts and they've made the same decision over and over. I understand how harsh it seems to die of dehydration and starvation, that is troubling and seems cruel. But these are considered heroic measures and interventions, what she said she didn't want.
I keep coming back to how we let animals go when they have no quality of life and nothing can be done. Why can't we do the same for people. I know without a shadow of a doubt if my brain were mostly spinal fluid (which hers is now) that I would want to be let go. And I'd want my husband to be able to make that decision.
I just don't understand why we can't get national health care but instead spend millions of dollars on *this*. It seems like a huge waste.
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Date: 2005-03-22 03:16 pm (UTC)and a number of other places, she can't actually do any of those things. Her brain scans were leaked to the 'net yesterday and there isn't anything there that can control speech. And she can't swallow, that part of her brain is gone. The words to the contrary seem to me to be desperate hope, which you can't fault the parents for, but I do fault the federal government for becoing involved in a state matter. It's already been through the courts and they've made the same decision over and over. I understand how harsh it seems to die of dehydration and starvation, that is troubling and seems cruel. But these are considered heroic measures and interventions, what she said she didn't want.
I keep coming back to how we let animals go when they have no quality of life and nothing can be done. Why can't we do the same for people. I know without a shadow of a doubt if my brain were mostly spinal fluid (which hers is now) that I would want to be let go. And I'd want my husband to be able to make that decision.
I just don't understand why we can't get national health care but instead spend millions of dollars on *this*. It seems like a huge waste.