Do you think she should have been kept alive? I dont
2007-03-16 15:32:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just a reminder...she was NOT able to eat or drink liquid on her own. SHe had to have a TUBE.
If she had been born in the 1800's she would have been dead meat.
NO BIG LOSS
2007-03-16 15:38:32 · update #1
Her family created this whole media storm that turned into a Religious Right cause, and eventually took the Supreme Court to say what the doctors and her husband had said all along.
That was a HUGE waste of time and tax dollars. The religious fanatics should be ashamed of themselves. It isn't natural (God's design) to be kept alive with the support of machines.
2007-03-16 15:53:51 · answer #1 · answered by mesquitemachine 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
So if premature babies are born and they need to be tube-fed, it's no big loss if they die?
Maybe the baby will live and grow up fine, you could say. Terri Schiavo never would.
Are you saying the value of a person depends on what they can or can't do, how much they can respond and if they can eat on their own?
Or do people have value because they are people?
Because regardless of what else she was, she was a woman, a living, breathing human being.
The husband wanted her dead so he could have all her money and share it with some other woman he'd been living with. Yeah, that's a mercy killing.
2007-03-16 22:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by Terial 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
She was already dead. The soul doesn't exist, but enough of the brain can survive to keep the body functioning for a while without assistance. With assistance, as in this case, for years. She was already dead. It was just morbid that they kept her body alive like that. People are so afraid of death that they'll do anything to keep someone they love alive. Such an awful shame.
2007-03-16 23:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by Atheistic 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No i don't think she should have been kept alive either, ppl have to think how her poor husband felt! I KNOW I wouldn't want to be kept alive if I were brain dead!
2007-03-17 08:43:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Her brain was gone. She was dead already.
The religious right made up a lot of tall tales about her, and frankly acted in a way that is both frightening and disgusting. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves, using a family's love for their daughter as a political weapon. That was simply sick.
The husband was the victim and what the Christian right did was terrorism, plain and simple.
2007-03-16 22:39:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
She was human being, but no longer a person. She was brain dead. The very essence of what it means to be a person was taken away from her. She should not have been kept alive. To say differently, is being very superficial.
2007-03-16 22:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Experts say her brain was gone. I think what was done to her was murder. She was a Catholic woman who did not sign a DNR form, so it is considered murder. Personally, I think her "adoring" husband just wanted her out of the way and off of his hands so he could legally be with the woman he was cheating with for years before he went to court to legally murder his current wife. Think about it, he also had a child with this mistress. It doens't matter if his wife was in a coma and would never be normal, he took the in better and worse vows and he broke them. Shame on him.
2007-03-17 01:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It was God who allowed her to be placed in that position perhaps He wanted her to experience what she did.
2007-03-16 22:59:42 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was struck by the irony of the people who wanted to keep her alive saying they didn't want to play God. How many people does God hook up the life support machines, when left to his own devices?
2007-03-16 22:39:14 · answer #9 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
She was murdered. All she needed to live was food and water; same as you and me. They stopped the feeding. Same as if you were locked up and food was withheld. They starved her to death and it took over a week for her to die.
She was not vegatated or in a coma, nor was she being kept alive by artificial life support. They starved her to death. Very cruel and inhumane.
2007-03-16 22:36:23 · answer #10 · answered by Augustine 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋