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Schiavo Bo Biavo
03.30.05 (3:06 pm)   [edit]
I'm back from Kitty Hawk, and it's not the most exciting place in the world, but I got to hear plenty of Schiavo talk.

Like I told Red Tigress in one of these comment windows, I never had a firm opinion on this, and have usually been swayed by the POV of the person talking about it. But with nothing else to blog about, I might as well go on about this.

So we have a woman who's in a Persistent Vegitative State, at least according to most doctors, and shows no signs of ever coming out of it. The family wants to keep her alive and the husband wants to kill her.

In general, I think it should be the spouse's choice. You choose the person you marry, you don't choose your family. Some people make stupid decisions by marrying people who might try to kill them if they're ever in a PVS, but that's their own fault. In this case, on a personal level, I think Michael Schiavo should give custody of her to her parents who are apparently willing to give up everything to keep this girl alive. Michael's got a whole new family, and understandably doesn't want the financial burden of a vegetable, but I don't see why he couldn't just give custody to her parents.

I used to know why he wouldn't give up custody, but I can't remember. It probably had something to do with her wishes, but the guy contradicted himself on Larry King Live by saying he didn't know what Terri wanted. Everybody who claims to know that Terri wanted to die is a Schiavo, which rubs me the wrong way off the bat.

So...yeah...I'm not liking the whole case. The courts have probably made the right choice, but I'd much rather they reinsert the feeding tube for at least a little while just to review the case. If Jeb Bush does anything, it's probably political suicide. Doing something because protesters tell you to is almost always a bad idea.

Nader did say something I found interesting, suprisingly. I read an article a couple days ago where Nader was saying they banned anybody from even feeding her food or water through her mouth, which is very different from just pulling out the tube. When you ban people from giving her food orally, that's the court ordering she be starved to death, not just the court ordering she stop being helped. That I find wrong.

I feel I should say that the South Park episode on this was hilarious.
 


posted by: RedTigress (reply)
post date: 03.31.05 (2:27 pm)

Wow, I didn't even know SouthPark did a thing on that. I should have known though. Wow, Nader interested you? What happened?

I think her husband had too much staked in her dying to really care if she lived. and since he had a common law wife, he should not have been her guardian, if you ask me.

But you can read my tribute I guess. :)



posted by: Defensor (reply)
post date: 04.02.05 (9:56 am)

Reply to: RedTigress

Yeah, it was a pretty funny episode. Michael Schiavo was appropriately played by Cartman.

This is the first thing Nader's said that actually has hit a chord with me. How can a court order that nobody give her food through her mouth? That's just plain wrong.



posted by: RedTigress (reply)
post date: 04.04.05 (7:48 pm)

Reply to: Defensor

"How can a court order that nobody give her food through her mouth? That's just plain wrong."

Agreed.

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