Tracked: March 16, 2005 1:03 PM

Terry will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away.

"Mrs. Yates did not drown her five children. She merely held them under water for a prolonged period."

"Mr. Bundy did not strangle Kimberly Leach. He merely withdrew her oxygenation."

"Ms. Borden didn't hack her father and stepmother to death. She just interrupted their synaptic connections. With an ax."

Sounds much nicer that way, doesn't it?

Just went to that "nurses" site. She isn't a nurse. She's a nursing assistant. A nursing assistant does the more routine nursing duties under the supervision of a actual licensed nurse. A nurse has a bachelors degree in nursing. A nursing assitant takes a course and gets a certificate. I don't she how she qualified to argue with doctors. "The dying, supposedly, feel no pain. I don’t think that is ever true." She doesn't think that is true. Has she done clinical trials to prove that these people in fact feel pain?

Due to the lack of a will, I feel the law must let the parents have their daughter, let the parents become the legal gaurdian, divorce the husband, sue him for all of the medical money spent on lawyers, do the long needed physical therapy, have some real testing done and change the laws. Husbands kill their wives. Parents love their children in most cases. If the husband was the only family it would be different, if Terri had left something in writing, or told a bunch of people that she didnt want to be kept alive then it would be different. The fact that the hubby could have damaged her condition is reason enough not to deprive her of food. It is his word against the entire world and he has no right to kill her. If she was on life support, then that might be different. Why is the judge going along with his word with all of the recent murders in the news and no written will???? This is very suspicious to me. I am praying too. If they are going to kill her, Why cant they do it more humanly? Why does she have to starve to death? Does she feel pain? If you poke her with a sharp instrneedle does she flinch? I really want to know all of this stuff.

My prayers go out to the family and yes Michael Schiavo, too. I pray he stops this vicious act before he murders his wife.

"all arguments about what is a life and what isn’t-the very worst part of what I do is watching others die a slow death."
- Is that really worse than watching someone live a painful and horrible life against there wishes?
"I just wanted something. The fact that I had nothing, the hunger pains overrode every thought I had."
- That is terrible indeed, but the fact is this woman was able to have thoughts. Terry has no conscience. All electrical activity in that part of the brain has ceased. Her soul (for you religous wackos) is gone.
"Mrs. Schiavo will experience extreme pain and significant psychological distress during the two weeks that her starvation-execution is expected to take."
-She has had a psyche to experience psychological stress in a decade. Why would she experience it for the last two weeks of her life?
The point is, it doesn't matter how it looks to you at all. You can say "oh but her parents say she's still cognitive" all you want but you cannot dispute scientific fact. The only part of her brain that makes life worth living is dead (cerebral cortex). Guys, if you're going to make an argument at least make sure it isn't ridden with propoganda to further your own personal beliefs. Husbands do murder their wifes, but what the heck is your point? She's already dead, you can't murder someone who is dead. If you constitute alive to mean you have fully functional organ systems, then you should say 5 hail mary's every time you accidently step on a bug, because that is the level she functions at now; less than an insect. If you do happen to marry a man (or woman for that matter) that is willing to take you off a feeding tube for their own personal agenda, then you got what was coming to you. You married the person, it's your problem, not the governments. flame away, I love arguing