🚀 go-pugleaf

welovethemearnhardts@yahoo.com wrote:

> It is about time that feeding tube was removed.  If she could not come
> around in 15 years what makes her parents, the Schindlers, think the
> passage of more time will "make it so".  If they want to keep her on it
> it is time for them to start footing the bill.

They were quite willing to do so, but Michael insisted on her death.

IMHO, Michael should have let the parents have Terri, so that the parents
would have a chance to realize ON THEIR OWN that Terri was unsalvageable.
Michael never gave them that chance, so they will believe that he's a
murderer for as long as they live.

> It is time for some closure - for her husband Michael who has suffered
> for so many years, for her parents who are in a state of denile and for
> the rest of us Americans who don't need anything else to make us feel
> badly about this wonderful country we live in.  And for Terri as well.
>
> Besides, Michael said they had talked about it before and Terri at that
> time indicated she would not want to be kept alive by artificial means
> if she was in the situation where recovery was not possible.

In 1990, provision of food and water wasn't defined as "medical care" in
Florida, so Terri is unlikely to have imagined that she might be made to
die of dehydration if she were in a PVS but needed nothing BUT a feeding
tube to survive.  Terri was not terminally ill.

> It is interesting to see all the Bushites who are with their esteemed
> leader in thinking that the reconnection will result in anything else
> than what has occurred so far.  "Yeah, GW Bush is right, we can't let
> that lovely little girl starve to death."  You don't hear the
> repuglicans talking about the excessive cost of health care now do you?
>  Not as long as someone else (Michael) is footing the bill.

Are you implying that Michael wanted to cut off Terri for financial reason?

I understand that Texas has a law allowing the cutting of life support to
kids who are judged to be unable to recover, even over the parents'
objections, if the parents don't have enough money to pay for those kids'
medical bills.