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To: Sully- who wrote (31753)	4/6/2005 4:23:43 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 90947

Tim, here are some links you may not have seen. Message 21184538 Message 21175507 Terri Schiavo's EEGs (electroencephalograms) msnbc.msn.com courttv.com fredericksburg.com As I posted somewhere back on this thread, Terri Schiavo was already dead when her husband found her on the floor, and she was still dead when the paramedics arrived and performed CPR, re-starting her heart. By all medical and legal criteria, she was dead. Technology exists to keep people "alive" but vegetative for what would perhaps have been their natural lifetimes. Technology can do many things. The conundrum is: Sure, we CAN do this stuff, but SHOULD we do this stuff? My thinking is that decisions re Terri Schiavo's case should have stayed with her physicians and her husband and should never have seen the inside of a courtroom. The criteria for what constitutes death had been decided and had become law long ago, and Terri Schiavo met those criteria. Extending back to biblical times and becoming the law of the land in all jurisdictions, the spouse is the legal next of kin. The Schindlers stated in court that they, even if knowing their daughter's wishes to not be kept "alive" by external instrumentation, could think of no circumstances under which they could allow their daughter to die--even if gangrene set in, requiring amputation(s), strikes me as ghoulish, ignorant, and wholly selfish. I am with you. I would not want to "live" as Terri Schiavo "lived" for fifteen years. And I agree that it is not for us to project our feelings and thoughts onto others or to force others to do as we would do. However, Terri Schiavo was not "killed" last week; she died fifteen years ago. - Holly