Terry Schiavo has passed away.

[BackDoorCvr]

Bryan and others who aren't that aware with this case.......

He actually won 2.5 million and said it was for her. Now that the money is gone, he thinks it's time to let her go? C'mon!!!!

Did you know that because that scumbag NEVER lets anyone in the room, he also did things like injecting her with insulin and other stuff, that 3 nurses came forward and even told the police that there were needle marks under her breast, and she was cold and clammy?

This asshole has wanted her dead for awhile now, and he finally got his wish. He also is trying to get a court order to have her creamated, instead of an autopsy done.

Yea, let's feel for this guy?!?!?!?!

Absolutely incorrect. Her husband wants the autopsy done so it can be proven once and for all the extent of her brain damage. Spinal fluid leaks into the damaged part of the brain so the extent of the damage could be determined by the amount of spinal fluid present. It is only after the autopsy is done is there a fight over her remains....he said that she wanted to be creamated while her parents want to bury her. I believe Spark said that an animal wouldn't have been treated this way. He's right. If an animal arrived at a shelter in the same way Terri did it would have been euthanized on the spot and not kept alive for 15 years.

[doktardave]

Absolutely incorrect. Her husband wants the autopsy done so it can be proven once and for all the extent of her brain damage. Spinal fluid leaks into the damaged part of the brain so the extent of the damage could be determined by the amount of spinal fluid present. It is only after the autopsy is done is there a fight over her remains....he said that she wanted to be creamated while her parents want to bury her. I believe Spark said that an animal wouldn't have been treated this way. He's right. If an animal arrived at a shelter in the same way Terri did it would have been euthanized on the spot and not kept alive for 15 years.

I think everyone could learn a lesson here. If you don't have a living will, do not rescessutate (damn I can't spell) order this is what can happen to all of us... It's not about you and me it's about insurance and liability and we all pay for that but no one wants to be accountable in the end!

[te14]

Guys- This crap drives me crazy. No one would want to be kept alive "artificially." To me, that's not what is being said here. The issue is STARVATION. I'm not arguing whether or not the parents or husband were right, I have my own opinion about that, but we don't allow PRISONERS OF WAR to be starved to death. No matter how you cut it, that is beyond cruel. There can be no argument about that.

TE

[griswold]

It is a remarkable lack of morality, or perhaps just complete raping of the English language, to call food and water "artificial means." It is also a lie to say a woman was in a coma when she wasn't. Argue your case for killing brain damaged people if you will, but please try to state facts.

[TheRhino]

Sad case.

I just can't imagine anyone would want to live like that. I guess that would be my question for everyone. We all have our opinions on the parents and the husband but put yourself in Terri's position for a minute. Having to lay in a bed for 15 years straight not being able to do anything (watch TV, conversate, eat, walk around) I think that would be torture and I would beg to die!

That's just my opinion maybe some people would want to live like that and that's fine I guess the bottom line is everyone should have a will that deals with this situation.

[phantom]

touchy subject.....no doubt.......

our thoughts and prayers go out to ALL............

[te14]

One last time, I agree, NO ONE would want to live like that. But would you like to die like that? I certainly wouldn't want to live like that for 15 years but give me something other than starvation. It's amazing to me that animal rights activists, just to name one group, will rip someone a new one for not feeding their dog but you don't hear a peep from them in cases like this.

[jmarty6969]

guy this is a horrible subject....i would rather be dead then to do this to my family,kids and mom and dad.......if u been on life support longer than a yr and there is no hope.......save everyone envolved and please pull my plug......this is a good example on live life to the fullest everyday.....cause u dont know what 2marrow might bring ya.....peace out brothers and sisters and 2 u the oldtimers

[rented mule]

What's funny to me is that there are a whole bunch of self-righteous people calling the husband a murderer, the judges murderers, etc.

Then these same hypocrits go and send death threats to the husband and the judges and publish the judges' addresses and suggest that someone should pay them a visit.

Don't go jumping down my throat either. I'm not calling anyone on this board a hypocrit. Unless you were one of the people I described above.

[rented mule]

By the way, my wife is an Occupational Therapist and worked in the Traumatic Brain Injury unit of a major NYC hospital for 4 years. The prevailing wisdom and the almost unanimously accepted theory on a patient in Terry Schiavo's condition is that she has no concept of fear, dying, pain, starvation or thirst, at this point in time.

Naturally, that could probably never be proven 100%, but that's what the experts say and that was my wife's observation, as well, from dealing with hundreds of these types of patients.

Because of this case, my wife and I have a meeting with an attorney, next week, to get our living wills legalized. My parents just did the same this past Monday and made me their agent.

[TheRhino]

How about the parents who allow there kids to get arrested by trying to bring her water. I think that is so sick! One guy had his 3 kids there I think they were like 9,10 and 12. What does this do?? If you want to demonstrate fine hold up your dam sign and if you as an adult think this issue is that important fine get arrested over it but leave the kids out of it!

[BettorsChat]

The latest emergency request argued that the federal courts didn't consider whether there was enough "clear and convincing" evidence that Schiavo would have chosen to die in her current condition. Doctors say she has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years.

Dr. Alexander Mauskop, a neurologist and director of the New York Headache Center, said the chances are "close to zero" that Schiavo will survive, even if the tube is reattached.

Mauskop said that Schiavo's kidneys have probably failed, a condition that could not be reversed even if water supply to the body was resumed. And despite the Schindlers' claims, Mauskop said, Schiavo could not be conscious with such a severely eroded cerebral cortex.

"She's not suffering at all," he told FOX News, adding, "Maybe it would not be bad to let the parents have their child, even if it's just the body ... maybe they should have the right to come and watch her and think she's alive."

And the divide between Michael Schiavo's camp and the Schindlers' has turned even more venomous, with some accusing Schiavo of spousal abuse and blaming him for his wife's condition.

Terri Schiavo suffered catastrophic brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped for several minutes because of a potassium imbalance, which is commonly associated with bulimia. Schiavo was overweight as a teen and lost a dramatic amount of weight when she entered adulthood. Her husband maintains she had an eating disorder.

But charges from Terri's former nurse that she was abused by her husband have inflamed those who don't believe she is actually in a vegetative state. The nurse alleges that Michael Schiavo aggravated his wife's condition shortly after she was initially hospitalized because he wanted to be free of her — invoking parallels to Scott Peterson, the California man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci.

Michael Schiavo's lawyer said Monday that an autopsy was planned to show the extent of his wife's brain damage.

[wayne1218]

My Thoughts

First of all the husband DOES want the autopsy and i also think her family and everyone else around her will sleep a little easier knowing she's at peace and maybe move on to enjoying life a little without the worries they have had for 15 years. Don't blame the husband without leaving out the whole court system and judge's that backed him.

I agree with Bry,frank, and savage here. Do i believe in starving her? No, but i don't believe in keeping people fed and alive in a warm jail cell when they have committed murder either! This issue is one that you are firmly on one side or the other but in the end i feel she is FINALLY at peace!

[TwoTonTony]

Thank God her suffering is over .,. Horrible the way that woman died!! You would not allow that to happen to an animal let alone a human ...

my sentiments spark....we will put a dog out of his misery but we let a fellow human starve to death...awful

[Prae]

but we let a fellow human starve to death...awful

Awful? What is awful is that "she" was allowed to be sustained for fifteen years. The "real" Terry went away in 1990.

- What ever happened to giving someone a meaningful and honorable death?

- To be remembered as who they were? (Instead of being remembered as a young girl, we get this picture of a pale woman)

- Choice?

You want to argue that the husband is wrong for letting her "die?" What about the nutjob parents that wanted to keep her alive DESPITE the fact that there was a 0% chance of recovery?

Facts: (1) Terry did not want to live this way, (2) There was no chance of recovery, (3) 80%~ of her brain is liquid.