Terry Schiavo fiasco

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Here are my thoughts. They are kinda mixed.

1. I truly believe that she was never going to recover, and would be doomed to life as an invalid for the rest of her life. I know I personally would never want to be kept alive under such circumstances. I consider such a fate worse than death.

2. Everything I've seen and heard about Michael Schiavo has painted him to be a slime bag. He seemed desperate to get rid of his wife, and while at first I thought that was just opinion, I saw him in a live interview, and his own words and actions only strengthened my opinion. I don't believe for a second that she ever gave him a vocal will, I think he made it up to speed along his own goals, and Terri's not able to clarify.

3. Terri's parents, the Schindlers, I can understand to some degree, insofar that they refused to give up hope on their daughter. But I do not think the decision was really theirs to make, since she was married. However, they offered to take the full burden of cost to maintain their daughter, and I think her husband should have allowed it.

4. I think starvation is an awful way to kill someone, I don't care what the circumstances are. You don't starve a convicted serial killer, why treat an innocent woman like that, drag it out for almost two weeks? A lethal injection or an intentional drug overdose could have done the job much quicker and with much greater dignity. I read that by the last few days, she was so dehydrated that her skin was cracking apart.

1. Agreed.

2. N/A

3. That conflicts with #1.

4. Agreed.