March 26, 2005

  • Terri S. is fading fast, from what I'm reading.  Sunken eyes.  Peeling, flaking skin.  Bleeding from her nose.

    Yup, sounds like a "peaceful" death to me. 

    A most valid point that's been made recently regarding her supposed comment regarding not being kept alive via machines:

    A feeding tube is not a machine.  Not only is it not a machine,
    but this particular mode of feeding and hydrating someone wasn't
    available then, so she most definitely wasn't referring to it when she made an off-hand remark about life support.

    It's a scary thought, that a throw-away comment during casual
    conversation can be dredged up years later and given the burden of law.

    Folks, we'd all better be very, very careful
    about what we say.  If we become helpless and in the control of
    "loved ones" who want to see us dead, what we said years before can and
    will be used against us.

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  • Did you hear what that, that, that PERSON Felos said the other day? That Terri looked more beautiful (after being dehydrated and starved for 10 days) than she had in all the time he'd known her?

    UGH.

  • [grimly] I read it.

    Couldn't believe it.

    Ugh, indeed.

  • And who knows what weight one's documented wishes might have in the present atmosphere?

    http://p213.ezboard.com/fabettercountryfrm30.showMessage?topicID=87.topic

  • If indeed she ever DID make that comment in the first place. Which is doubtful considering he didn't remember it till seven years later (after he had gotten millions for therapy, AND gotten "engaged" to his live in). I am still amazed how many people still think she was comatose AND hooked up to "life support". No matter what anyone tells me I refuse to acknowledge a feeding tube as life support.

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