Terri Shiavo's Pending Execution
Time is running out for Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose husband and some doctors claim is in a vegetative state. She is set to have her feeding tube removed this Friday, March 18, 2005.
Unless last minute legislation is enacted she will endure a slow, painful, and horrible death.
I say painful because last week on tv I saw a case of a woman who came out of a vegetative state after 12 years. According to her she heard every word everyone said around her. She said she felt horrible pain when doctors failed to use enough anesthesia when a feeding tube was inserted into her abdomen. She was in agonizing pain yet unable to let anyone around her know how much she was hurting. When the tube was later removed, in an attempt to end her life, she felt panic at her inability to stop it from happening. She also felt starvation and suffered food delusions, which is something that people in concentration camps have reported feeling when they were starved.
If this woman, who was diagnosed as suffering a full vegetative state, had felt all this, then isn't it possible that Terri Schiavo is feeling the same as well? Why is the left so sure that she can't and isn't? Why won't her husband, Michael Schiavo, concede as much?
Michael Schiavo should have no reason to see his wife dead. Her medical problem hasn't stopped him from going on with his life. He has a common law wife complete with children. Yet he continues to insist that his wife's feeding tube be removed.
He was even offered a million dollars from an anonymous donor on the west coast to drop his crusade to kill his wife. He refused that offer, citing the same old mantra that he is fulfilling his wife's wishes. That's something he never mentioned in his testimony when trying to get 20 million dollars from his wife's malpractice suit.
Could it be that Michael Shiavo has no reason except one - to finish the job? If Terri's dead than she can't talk, and if she can't talk, then he's safe. Is it so beyond the realm of possibility that she might someday talk and implicate him for putting her in that state? He claimed a heart attack brought on by an eating disorder caused her vegetative state, though her family and friends say she had no such disorder. Strangling someone to the point of preventing oxygen to the brain can cause a heart attack and brain damage too. According to statements she made to family and friends she was the wife of an abusive husband. Michael has denied abusing Terri, even though a bone scan conducted in September 1991 shows evidence of trauma and possible physical abuse
A report of this bone scan is at http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/terri_schiavo_bone_scan.html
Hopefully, Terri will get a last minute reprieve. I also think that her family and the Florida justice system should try another tactic with this man. There is enough physical evidence and eyewitnesses to prove that he was abusive to her in the past. As he was the only person with her at the time of her heart attack, there should be enough evidence to charge him with murder if she is forced to starved to death. Because ultimately, if his abuse caused her to be in her present state which later leads to death, then that's murder. Maybe if they tell Michael Schiavo that there will be no escape for him even with her death he might stop his campaign for this final act of violence against this woman..
Unless last minute legislation is enacted she will endure a slow, painful, and horrible death.
I say painful because last week on tv I saw a case of a woman who came out of a vegetative state after 12 years. According to her she heard every word everyone said around her. She said she felt horrible pain when doctors failed to use enough anesthesia when a feeding tube was inserted into her abdomen. She was in agonizing pain yet unable to let anyone around her know how much she was hurting. When the tube was later removed, in an attempt to end her life, she felt panic at her inability to stop it from happening. She also felt starvation and suffered food delusions, which is something that people in concentration camps have reported feeling when they were starved.
If this woman, who was diagnosed as suffering a full vegetative state, had felt all this, then isn't it possible that Terri Schiavo is feeling the same as well? Why is the left so sure that she can't and isn't? Why won't her husband, Michael Schiavo, concede as much?
Michael Schiavo should have no reason to see his wife dead. Her medical problem hasn't stopped him from going on with his life. He has a common law wife complete with children. Yet he continues to insist that his wife's feeding tube be removed.
He was even offered a million dollars from an anonymous donor on the west coast to drop his crusade to kill his wife. He refused that offer, citing the same old mantra that he is fulfilling his wife's wishes. That's something he never mentioned in his testimony when trying to get 20 million dollars from his wife's malpractice suit.
Could it be that Michael Shiavo has no reason except one - to finish the job? If Terri's dead than she can't talk, and if she can't talk, then he's safe. Is it so beyond the realm of possibility that she might someday talk and implicate him for putting her in that state? He claimed a heart attack brought on by an eating disorder caused her vegetative state, though her family and friends say she had no such disorder. Strangling someone to the point of preventing oxygen to the brain can cause a heart attack and brain damage too. According to statements she made to family and friends she was the wife of an abusive husband. Michael has denied abusing Terri, even though a bone scan conducted in September 1991 shows evidence of trauma and possible physical abuse
A report of this bone scan is at http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/terri_schiavo_bone_scan.html
Hopefully, Terri will get a last minute reprieve. I also think that her family and the Florida justice system should try another tactic with this man. There is enough physical evidence and eyewitnesses to prove that he was abusive to her in the past. As he was the only person with her at the time of her heart attack, there should be enough evidence to charge him with murder if she is forced to starved to death. Because ultimately, if his abuse caused her to be in her present state which later leads to death, then that's murder. Maybe if they tell Michael Schiavo that there will be no escape for him even with her death he might stop his campaign for this final act of violence against this woman..
posted by Concerned Citizen at 2:27 PM
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