[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil

This is of course a very delicate case. Whether someone should be kept a live with advanced medical techniques or should they be allowed to pass away. Unfortunately, many people want to rely on personal experience to make their decisions when what’s best for Mrs. Shiavo should really be determined by making an objective decision based on facts and law.

We’re technical people so let’s examine the facts. Her doctor’s have said she is in a persistent vegetative state. Much of her brain is no longer there and is in fact filled with spinal fluid. Although her parents say she reacts to her surroundings there are no facts to prove this. Her prognosis is that she will spend the rest of her life unconscious on a feeding tube without ever regaining consciousness.

Objectively, we can say that she is unable to make her own decision and given her prognosis will never be able to make her own decisions. Therefore, we must turn to her legal guardian Mr. Shiavo, who has decided that she should pass away. Her parents have zero legal ground to stand on as to whether she should be kept alive artificially. Federal and State courts who make their decisions based on law must rule that Terri Shiavo should remain off her feeding tube.

I have a personal opinion on this matter as well. I’m sure Terri Shiavo never intended for herself to remain in this state for the rest of her life while Mr. Shiavo remained faithful to her while she remain unconscious in a hospital bed. I certainly wouldn’t want to put my spouse through that. Her parents should realize that right now the body laying in that bed is not their daughter Terri, it is a machine only trying to keep itself alive until the inevitable.

I totally agree with what you said, without going on my personal opinion and going by the facts you are totally right and the courts are making the right descion since Mr. Shiavo legally does have the say. The minute they both said I do, the parents lost any legal saying in there daughters future