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post #1 of 35
3/27/05 at 1:45am
Thread Starter 
I am starting this poll as something to make your defininative opinion.

We have a thread already to discuss our reasonings so please do NOT go after any one here who makes their opinion.

This is only to define where we stand, as I find that interesting~

Please vote, state that you did, and why if you would like to, but remember that we have a thread to contradict each
others statements~

Thanks!


(This is a private poll)
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post #2 of 35
3/27/05 at 1:53am
I voted to let her go
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post #3 of 35
3/27/05 at 3:37am
I was for keeping her alive, for the reasons stated on the other thread. But now that she is into her 2nd week without the feeding tube, I think it's too late to turn back. If they reinsert it she is going to just have to go through this all over again in a few months. I think that might be worse than what she is going through now.
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post #4 of 35
3/27/05 at 3:41am
I voted to let her go.
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post #5 of 35
3/27/05 at 4:22am
I voted to let her go... not only because I think she should've been let go ages ago, but also because, like Tanya said, it's a bit late to turn back and then start over later.
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post #6 of 35
3/27/05 at 4:35am
I too voted to let her go.
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post #7 of 35
3/27/05 at 6:48am
Quote:
Originally Posted by dicknleah
I too voted to let her go.
I voted the wishy washy last one because it reflects my confusion. We cannot know with certainty whether she wants to live or if her life now is pure torture or if she is really without any interior life at all. At this point there's nothing we can do without it feeling like playing God.

It's the arbitrary nature of it that is so difficult. My understanding is that some states would not remove the feeding tube unless there was a written directive from her. Yet Florida will.

It is so horrifying that her family could not come to an agreement on this.
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post #8 of 35
3/27/05 at 7:10am
I voted to let her go. Her family needs to move on...it's been 15 years! I just don't understand how her family can be so grief stricken about her dying when it's been this long. Did they really think after all these years that she would come out of it?
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post #9 of 35
3/27/05 at 7:43am
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Originally Posted by katie=^..^=
I voted the wishy washy last one because it reflects my confusion. We cannot know with certainty whether she wants to live or if her life now is pure torture or if she is really without any interior life at all. At this point there's nothing we can do without it feeling like playing God.

It's the arbitrary nature of it that is so difficult. My understanding is that some states would not remove the feeding tube unless there was a written directive from her. Yet Florida will.

It is so horrifying that her family could not come to an agreement on this.
It has become even more complicated since Pope John Paul II contradicted earlier Catholic interpretations of "extraordinary measures".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Mar26.html
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post #10 of 35
3/27/05 at 10:23am
let her go
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post #11 of 35
3/27/05 at 10:26am
let her go - she is completely gone. ask yourself: would you i want to live this way?
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post #12 of 35
3/27/05 at 11:08am
No, I wouldn't want to be in that state, It's a hard choice and when you are not personally involved I think we don't think like the family
I hope that what the Drs I have seen are saying is true, that she will not suffer from not having that feeding tube are correct, They say the body is not able to tell.. But I voted to let her go, she has no quality to her life,My sis-in-laws nephew was like that for 11 years then he passed. But Bless her and her Family my Heart goes out to them.
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post #13 of 35
3/27/05 at 11:10am
I was glad tohear the family asked supporters to leave.I read how it's a zoo at the Hospice and the other patients needs are getting hurt.

God bless Terry. She is going to a better place.
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post #14 of 35
3/27/05 at 4:28pm
I said let her go. I have no difficulty accepting that any chance of her improving has long since been gone, and either she has no conscious knowledge of her life, or it is aquality of life I cannot imagine anyone wanting to live. Nothing is gained for anyone, least of all Terri, by keeping this up.

My heart goes to her parents -- it's clear they simply can't let go, and that's all too understandable, but that doesn't make it right for them to continue this. Let her go to her God.
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post #15 of 35
3/27/05 at 5:03pm
Voted the last choice.
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post #16 of 35
3/27/05 at 5:07pm
I voted to let her go. Her soul has left her body long ago, what remains is an empty shell running on autopilot. I feel very much for her family but find myself unable to understand how they can be so afraid of death if their religion is as strong as they say it is.

Kathryn
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post #17 of 35
3/27/05 at 6:28pm
I'm in agreement with the courts -- it's time to let her go.
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post #18 of 35
3/27/05 at 9:43pm
Let her go. That is no way to live. She is never going to recover
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post #19 of 35
3/27/05 at 10:56pm
I voted to let her go. My basis for that is that she has been in a coma for so long, is probably brain dead, and that her life is not fun for her or for anyone else. If it were ME, I would NEVER want to live like that.
I have a living will. I do not want ANY feeding tube or ANY measures taken to keep me alive. All I want is stuff to keep me out of pain.
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post #20 of 35
3/28/05 at 10:23am
Looking around at some other forums, I've found that there are many people who don't object to her being allowed to die, but simply to the method. I wonder if this case will open a new discussion of "assisted suicide/euthanasia"? I guess that's too much to hope for.
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post #21 of 35
3/28/05 at 4:49pm
I voted to let her go, I can only hope that if something like that happened to me that my family would respect my wishes and let me go too.
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post #22 of 35
3/28/05 at 10:42pm
I think that it is time to let her go
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post #23 of 35
3/29/05 at 10:47am
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Originally Posted by jcat
Looking around at some other forums, I've found that there are many people who don't object to her being allowed to die, but simply to the method. I wonder if this case will open a new discussion of "assisted suicide/euthanasia"? I guess that's too much to hope for.
I'm in that boat. Until the last couple of weeks, I was completely opinionless on this topic b/c I don't think I would know what to do until the very moment it was happening in my family. But, after giving it lots of thought, I agree with letting her go.
However, the method seems a bit atrocious to me- starving her to death. It is true that the media has possibly put a horrible spin on things, describing her bleeding eyes and tongue, etc. We just can't know for sure. And hopefully the morphine drip is helping. But I've always said that the absolute worst way to go is to die of starvation/thirst. I hope to God she is without pain right now.
So, while I side with her husband and the mostly-left on this issue, I wish they could have let her go in a quicker, easier manner.
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post #24 of 35
3/29/05 at 10:55am
i voted to let her go.
I know that if it happened to my child, cat or family i couldnt let go but i would need the support from others to grip onto reality that everyone dies anyway.
Bf told me that he would be sad if i/his family died but he would udnerstand because everyone has to go at some point.
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post #25 of 35
3/29/05 at 10:57am
I also voted to let her go - it's the toughest decision anyone will ever have to make - but for the sake of dignity and respect based on her condition it's the right one!
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post #26 of 35
3/29/05 at 4:05pm
That poor woman. Let her go. She's too brain damaged to feel much pain...or anything else for that matter.
I know I wouldn't want to be kept alive in a state like that.
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post #27 of 35
3/29/05 at 10:05pm
Let her go. Quite frankly I find it disgusting when one singular case gets pushed into the spotlight when this same decision is made all of the time by people everywhere. And this whole battle is really at Terri's expense. I'm sure this is not how she would have wanted to be remembered. I also find it disgusting that our horrible governor wanted to get his hand in it at the start. Thank god they stopped him from that, now if only they could stop him from ruining our school system while they're at it!
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post #28 of 35
3/30/05 at 6:20am
I watched my grams die slowly from alzheimers.. I know that she wasn't with her body for about the last year of her life, and I'm sure that had she a choice she wouldn't wish the care of her physical body on us-I feel like it's the same thing with Terri Shiavo.. like she's not really there anymore... I'm sad that they allowed another appeal on the matter.
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post #29 of 35
3/30/05 at 8:52am
I too voted to let her go. There comes a point when it must be done, and to me, after 15 years, its past time. Honestly, I wouldn't want to be in her state, that's no way to have to spend your life........as a matter of fact, I was so upset by this whole thing the other day that I made my mom promise me that if they were ever in the postition that her parents are in, that they would let me go....that if they didn't, when I did die, I was going to come back to haunt them! Truthfully, if her mind is in the shape that they claim it is, she's not really in any "pain" or "hunger" as we know it. It's like my MIL, in the weeks before she passed away, her body was there, and until the day that she died, she was breathing on her own, but as her body shut down, her senses did too, she wasn't hungry, granted, they tempted her, just in case she was, and a few days before she passed, she stopped drinking too.....its really just a matter of nature taking its course with our bodies. Sheesh! I'm sorry for getting so longwinded!
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post #30 of 35
3/30/05 at 8:57am
over 23 appeals by the Schindler family and attorneys, seems to me the attorneys get richer as they should know enough is enough
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