Author Topic: RIP Terri Shiavo (Read 984 times)

Airhead · « **on:** March 31, 2005, 09:25:04 AM »

May she find eternal peace.

Bodhi · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2005, 09:31:58 AM »

Yep, have to say I am glad that her body has passed on. Sad story all the way around.

As for the soul, I often wonder where it goes in a person who is a vegetable. Is it locked inside, or does it leave, knowing the end is at hand?

Thud · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2005, 09:38:00 AM »

May she rest in peace.

edit: you're right Airhead....

Airhead · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2005, 09:46:35 AM »

Thud, no point in starting that debate again, all's been covered in the five other threads about it.

slimm50 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2005, 09:56:33 AM »

God Bless her.

ASTAC · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2005, 10:12:20 AM »

This just proves how morally bankrupt this country has become. There is no hope for us as a country. Every empire falls and we are well on our way..and only after little more than 200 years..sad.

RIP Terri

Eagler · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2005, 10:31:20 AM »

she is fine now,

may those she leaves behind now find peace in her passing

mars01 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 31, 2005, 10:31:32 AM »

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This just proves how morally bankrupt this country has become. There is no hope for us as a country. Every empire falls and we are well on our way..and only after little more than 200 years..sad.

You choose this to find us morally bankrupt. LOLH. If her accident happened 100 years ago she would not have stayed alive as long as she has.

I think it was cruel not to let her die and to keep her struggling on imprisoned in a jail cell of flesh.

If I were in her condition trapped in a body I could not use, let alone one I could not even feed myself in, I would much rather die. The fact that they left that poor woman starve to death is what is most repugnant and cruel. All because we are too PC to help her into the next world more graciously.

Kevorkian and others should be allowed to help those suffering and in pain that want to move on, to move on. What right does the government have to tell me when I can or can not die and how I want to go about it.

As for Terry, I hope she finally rests in peace now that she is free.

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may those she leaves behind now find peace in her passing

Ahmen!

Toad · « **Reply #8 on:** March 31, 2005, 10:49:02 AM »

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"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken;

for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Eternal peace to Terri; I'm sure she will have it.

Some sort of peace to those that survive her and continue to argue over here.

LePaul · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2005, 12:00:50 PM »

RIP ...geez, he threw the parents out in her final moments.

Maverick · « **Reply #10 on:** March 31, 2005, 12:03:41 PM »

She is free of her pain and condition now. RIP

RTSigma · « **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2005, 01:04:14 PM »

Glad this horrible situation is over. I was sick with the media, the protestors, her parents, her husband were all driving me nuts.

Terri probably wanted to die, laying there without being able to do anything.

I hope the autopsy reveals that there was no real hope of her being 'revived' to normal so that everyone in this whole **** world will realize that keeping someone alive like that is torture for them and just convienent for wacked out parents and hippie protestors.*

*protestors who got so rowdy, that the local school was closed for a week for fear of the childrens safety from the protestors.

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 31, 2005, 01:23:08 PM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
Yep, have to say I am glad that her body has passed on. Sad story all the way around.

As for the soul, I often wonder where it goes in a person who is a vegetable. Is it locked inside, or does it leave, knowing the end is at hand?

wow...good question! I'm guessing it stays locked in till the body dies...

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2005, 01:28:05 PM »

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Originally posted by RTSigma

Terri probably wanted to die, laying there without being able to do anything.

It's easy for me to think that the parents were selfish and thinking only of themselves...but who can blame them, they did all they could to keep their child alive.

I pray I'm never in that situation as a parent....

eagl · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2005, 01:30:15 PM »

An interesting idea I read elsewhere was that it would have benefitted society if Jeb Bush had called in the Florida Guard and ordered a Guard doctor to hook her back up. Sure, it would have sparked a constitutional crisis, but IMHO this sort of thing is the kind of problem that NEEDS to be forced. What happens next time?

It's been pointed out that doing to a dog what was done to Shiavo would result in jail time, so what exactly would the courts have tried to do to the governor if he'd ordered the state police, with Florida Guard/Militia protection, to hook her back up? What if the Governor had directed the state police to take custody of Shiavo for her own protection, making her a ward of the state? If a state child protection agency can take children from their home due to abuse, can't a government agency take an incompetent person into protective custody?

It's too bad the governor and president weren't willing to fight this battle, because it sets the precedent that the next of kin's wishes are in general to be held higher than the preservation of life, and that in a custody dispute where one party wishes the ward to live and the other wishes the ward to die, again the decision goes to the legal custodian, not in favor of the preservation of life. Setting the letter of the law, which we wrote without intending these consequences, above simple preservation of life, is an extremely dangerous precedent.