Thursday, March 31, 2005
Seriously Schaivo
Florida. Okay, been taking some flak from some RAG readers about Terri Schaivo. I figured I would get the occasional criticism on certain issues, I'm really surprised that people are actually reading the RAG outside of my friends and family.
In the wake of Mrs. Schaivo's passing I will state this. Yes, it's sad that she's gone. Sad that she suffered for so long without a feeding tube. I personally, don't know if she was brain damaged enough to put down, but 7 years seems like an awful long time to be hooked up to an apparatus. Besides, I'm not an expert, the court-appointed doctor is. And he stated that she would not recover. Okay, so her husband said that she wanted off life support in the event somehting like this happened, after it happened. Does that sound fishy? A little. But, that decision was allegedly between a man and his wife. Was there a need to get the Vatican involved? The state legislature? Jeb Bush? George Bush? Federal courts? No. I think not. And it was that, we at the RAG files were poking fun at.
The bottom line, if you've made the decision to be taken off life support, then share these wishes with all family members. I am an organ donor, and when I die, they can have whatever organ they want from me (except maybe my liver as it's probably no good anymore), my family knows this, not happy about it as it goes against some Maori superstition thingy, but those are my wishes.
In the wake of Mrs. Schaivo's passing I will state this. Yes, it's sad that she's gone. Sad that she suffered for so long without a feeding tube. I personally, don't know if she was brain damaged enough to put down, but 7 years seems like an awful long time to be hooked up to an apparatus. Besides, I'm not an expert, the court-appointed doctor is. And he stated that she would not recover. Okay, so her husband said that she wanted off life support in the event somehting like this happened, after it happened. Does that sound fishy? A little. But, that decision was allegedly between a man and his wife. Was there a need to get the Vatican involved? The state legislature? Jeb Bush? George Bush? Federal courts? No. I think not. And it was that, we at the RAG files were poking fun at.
The bottom line, if you've made the decision to be taken off life support, then share these wishes with all family members. I am an organ donor, and when I die, they can have whatever organ they want from me (except maybe my liver as it's probably no good anymore), my family knows this, not happy about it as it goes against some Maori superstition thingy, but those are my wishes.
