Why were liberals so eager to end the beautiful life of Terri Schiavo?

Question

Hi, my name is Phil, and I am a life long friend of the Schiavos. We attended church with Terri's parents for many years, and really loved Terri.

We were with her family on that fateful day when Terri passed away. As the nurse (probably a liberal) came in and removed the life sustaining feeding tube, Terri (bless her heart) started to cry. We quickly grabbed the tube from the nurse and put it back in Terri. But, just then, another nurse came in, and took it out of her. As the nurses walked back to the nursing station with the feeding tube, we could hear them chuckle.

Well, this is why I still Support Tom Delay, George & Jeb Bush, and the rest of the GOP. They're the only ones with the courage to stand up to the liberals and do the Christian thing.

But, the question remains. Why were liberals so eager to kill this vibrant woman?

Answer 1

Well, I'll say this. It was my belief that, given the facts, that she wasn't going to recover. It was her time to die. If you're a good Christian wouldn't you want her soul to be released rather than imprisioned in her body, which was slowly wasting away. Though I will say this it is tragic that she had to die the way she did.

Answer 2

It's always sad when someone dies, but who is our government to interfere with family decisions? Instead of blaming liberals, why don't you blame insurance companies that think keeping people with little chance for recovery alive is bad for business? Truthfully, fiscal conservatives are against any type of government assistance that would help people like Terri, so I can't understand how they are more desirable than 'liberals.' We're all humans, though we're not all Christians. The truth is that none of these things are really in our hands anyway, and it seems silly to make our lives nothing more than a hate-filled blame game for everything that happens. I'm sorry about what happened, but if you're a Christian, then you know the liberals weren't really responsible and who really is.

Answer 3

Terry Schiavo was not going to get any better, sir. She had no quality of life--at the time when the tube was removed, she had NO life at all. What was done was done because she had no real life, wasn't responding, wasn't aware of herself or her surroundings. What made Terry Terry was no longer there. The removal of her feeding tube allowed Terry to conclude her life with the dignity she deserved.
If there had been a chance for her to come out of that coma with her mind functioning, her spirit restored, I doubt the docs would have let anyone pull theplug, nor would anyone else. As it was, her life, her poor body, was atrophying. She had no real life as she was.

Answer 4

I agree with you. And I do believe in ending life when i think that's what they wanted. Bush believes in it too. Terri's case was different. There was no proof that she wanted it, and Bush, Jebb, me all wanted to make sure and try to find out before it was too late that her husband didn't cause her condition. Liberals will never understand that. It took all the attention from the people to get the government to step in and not let a man get away with murder, which he did. All the liberals could think was that Republicans don't believe in pulling the plug (which was not a plug, but slow starvation) they totally couldn't get the part of the night she became that way. Once she was gone it was over.

Answer 5

The nurse, you say, was probably a liberal, or maybe she was just a nurse who came to work that day like every other day and happened to have Terri on her assignment along with four or five other pts. Nurses don't do anything without a written order from a doctor, so why would you assume she had anything to do with it. As a Floridian, I personally was sick and tired of hearing about your friend's case day after day. Talk about loss of dignity, your friends should be ashamed of what they put their daughter through. Don't you think she is happier looking down on them and watching over them than she was confined to a hospital bed unable to move or communicate for herself. She is no longer in pain. I bet she is hoping you will all embrace her passing and move on with your lives.

Answer 6

She might have been vibrant in the 80s but she was a vegetable and had been one for ten years. You would have her suffer even though she wanted to die with dignity.

Is george doing the christian thing when he drops bombs on iraqis who arn't mentally incapacitated? Is lying a christian thing...or does tom delay get an exemption for that? Does jesus love the hate spilled from rick santorumns mouth every single day?

Why are republicans so eager to kill innocent people in the middle east?

Answer 7

Because most Liberals don't see it as a badge of honour to say they waste their Sundays going to Church with sanctimonious aholes like you. Listening to all that Mumbo Jumbo and then being as hatful as before you went in. May Terri Schiavo's spirit rest in peace from fools like you.

Answer 8

If that was a beautiful life, I would hate to see what you consider a hard life! Anyway, the answer to your question: the liberals I know had no interest whatsoever in ending her life. Of the ones who supported her husband's decision, their only interest was in supporting that it was her husband's right to make the decision. So maybe you can answer this question: why are conservatives so hell bent on intervening with families who need to make end of life decisions for their loved ones.

Answer 9

Liberals say it was cruel to keep her alive and wanted her to die with dignity. Conservatives say it was cruel to let her die, and wanted her to live on, with dignity. She couldn't get out of her hospital bed and live independently. So, why was it no one left her off the d*** TV cameras to be in her hospital bed with dignity?
Whether she would have recovered or have eventually died, couldn't we have shown her some respect in her most difficult of moments? Everyone(politicians, the media etc.) used this woman to discuss this issue of life/death, but no one paid her the respect she deserved. No one respected the little life she had left, but everyone played god with her fate. I have tremendous respect for what she must have endured for 10 years, and whatever you believe about God and the afterlife, you've got to be happy she's finally at rest.

Answer 10

When you look at the state of her condition and the years of suffering. If it were me yes i would chose to die.

Amazing how Conservatives like Bush and DeLay jumped on this issue for moral reasons. How bout the plight of millions of citizens without health care, tax cuts for the rich, rising cost of gas in the US and lack of respect for the USA.

Answer 11

Go play with yourself! How many deaths have Bush and Co been responsible for. Katrina killed over 1000 while Bush Co did NOTHING! How many healthy young men have dies in the sand of Iraq and Afghanistan?