Terri Schiavo

[Slinky Ferret]

From what I've been reading online and in the papers as well as what you are debating this is one of those situations where the is no simple answer.

I have a few questions if anyone would like to explain to me.

1. The husband has not remained faithful to his wife - he has a new woman and children. Therefore his priority is not his wife but his family. Why is he not allowed to divorce her?

2. Why are the parents not given equal clout over her care?

3. If someone has a heart attack I thought they have monitors and things on them. What I don't understand is how she got into this state and has not had an MRI scan. The fact that she is concious to some extent as in has eyes open and can breathe without equipment is surely saying something.

I was born early and in the hospital where I was born there wasn't anything except oxygen. I managed to breathe on my own the whole night and was then transported to another hospital. Thanks to the skill of the doctors and nurses I am still alive, I do not have brain damage, I am not blind, there's nothing wrong with me except I'm a bit weird (purely genetic) and I'm dyslexic which it seems is also genetic.

Why is terri in a hospice? Surely a hospice is where people who are dying or terminally ill are looked after? The sad thing is, america has the best resources available. There are so many stories of people awaking out of commas. But what I question is IF she had a MRI scan surely they could resolve part of the emotion tension. I think it would help her parents let her go in peace if they knew there was no chance of her gaining any real quality of life.

Also I also feel sad when they stop feeding people. They are effectively starving them to death. Surely even if they can't communicate like the rest of us its got to be a terrible way to go.

Still I know nothing about commas, medical things or fully understand how the whole political aspect fits in.