The case of Terri Schiavo

[KenWittlief]

I dont think any of us have the pure facts in this case (including myself) all we know is what has been filtered through the media. None of us knows her personally, or has access to her medical staff. And if we did, they would not be allowed to discuss a patients medical condition with us withour her consent.

The doctors who have been responsible for her care did all the brain activity tests, MRIs, all that good science stuff, and they say the part of her brain that allows a person to think and feel and have conscousness is all mush, there is no chance of recovery.

Medical science creates these moral issues. Its not so much that anyone intends to kill her, but that the doctors are keeping her body alive artifically. If they had not used a feeding tube she would have died years ago.

There are many levels of this, feeding tubes, heart pumps, ventilators... you could keep a dead persons body 'pumping away' for years - that doesnt mean there is anyone in there.

In a case like this I defer to the medical experts. Even a flower will turn to face the sunlight, that doenst mean it has conscousness. I have not heard any doctor who has actaully examined this woman say she can recover.

Sadly I think she has been turned into a political pawn. Whatever happens the 'losing side' will play it up big in the political arena to further their own adjenda, and it will have nothing to do with the reality of Terri Schiavo's existance.

remember that. 99.999% of the people who are involved in this issue knew nothing about this woman before she ended up in the hospital, and are only arguing the hypothetical cases about what might be true. Only her personal doctors know what is actually true.