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Tom Barrister wrote:

> Since my other posts, I've done more research on both sides of this
> issue.  I've looked at everything objectively.  And I've come to the
> following conclusions:
>
> At best, the Schindlers were unable to accept reality---that, assuming
> that the feeding tube hadn't been disconnected, their daughter was
> probably not going to ever get better.  It's possible that she was in
> some stage of very minimally aware consciousness (perhaps some stage
> between that and PVS), but anything more than that was probably in
> their imagination.  Now I've read where there's a theory in which
> brain-damaged people do continue to react to natural parents (something
> similar to imprinting that occurs to birds at birth), but regardless,
> it's not likely that any therapies would have impoved Terri's
> condition.
>
> Michael Schiavo is, in my opinion, a control freak who demanded that
> everything be done his way.
>
> A LOT of people and institutions used this case to further their own
> personal agendas, get publicity, make money, etc. A lot more backed off
> when it was apparent that they could suffer personally from getting
> further involved.  I doubt that I need to state how wrong that is.
>
> While I can understand the poistion (which goes against my Catholicism,
> but we all have the right to our own personal beliefs) of a person in
> PVS being allowed to "die with dignity", I strongly abhor such being
> done by disconnection of nourishment/fluids (e.g.
> starvation/dehydration).  While the meidical community believes that
> there's no pain or suffering involved, we cannot be absolutely certain
> of that.  If a person is going to be, essentially, put to death legally
> by court order or hospital/relative prerogative, it should be done in a
> way that causes instant or near-instant death, perhaps by injection of
> some sort )preceded, if necessary, by another injection to numb the
> body's senses to the reaction of the lethal injection).  I suggest that
> legislators (state or federal) enact legislation to this effect.

Ship the PVS people to the execution chambers used to execute murderers,
and inject them there.

> I believe that the governmental check-and-balance system in place
> weighs too strongly in favor of the judicial system at this point in
> time.
>
> And finally, I want to lash out at the media----especially at the CNN
> network----who, in my opinion, turned this situation into a
> melodramatic circus for the purpose of increasing their
> ratings/readership.
>
> Thanks for reading

You're welcome.