Also: Potassium imbalance is the official cause of her heart attack. Any rumour of another cause is unsubstatiated and seems designed to curry favour for the parents.

Guess what, there are a LOT MORE people who aren't in the convenient little box you've put them in who fervently believe Terri Schiavo ought to be given the chance at rehabilitation and life. (I don't even claim a denomination other than general non-evangelical Christian.)

It's disgusting how the ANTI-LIFE people have politicized the issue. She's a human being, not a political poster child. But you can be sure she will be one, if she is "put down" like a dog. And mark my words, the pro-life movement will get even stronger, as you will undoubtedly regret, if that happens.

The "cruelty" she suffers is at the hands of those who DENY HER any rehabilitation--that being her so-called husband.

You'd look like less of an ass if you'd just take some time and look at the other side of the story, as millions of others have (and changed their opinions) instead of basing your opinion on knee-jerk political reaction.

I'm beginning to think that God can make a rock so heavy even he can't lift it. The only thing the near-omnipotent one cannot do is make an argument so bad no Michael Schiavo apologist will use it.

Of course, her parents have become the dupes or just merely aligned themselves with the right-to-lifers that misread the bible (lower case intended) to find some mystical justification for their mental misfunctions and inability to deal with the actual physical world and others who can think for themselves.

The right-to-lifers conveniently forget to demonstrate against wars inititated by the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rice quartet that are driving our society and economy into the pits.

Now, we see some techno-babble and false science expressed above. The matter is that Terri is being subjected to cruelty, and the only proper natural process is to pull the plug. If she survives through god, then the bible-bangers will have proved their point. Amen.

Terri has been classified as being in a PVS.

You may find it interesting to know that the two doctors who came to this conclusion, did so based on ten minute examinations, (which could very well have occured while Terri was drugged), since the examinations were ordered by those who have consistently desired her death, (Michael Schiavo, Greer and Felos), and who had the control to arrange such "medical treatment" prior to exam time. Furthermore, as has been cited in more than one comment above, numerous medical professionals have a different opinion, which, by the way, has never been entertained by the court.

If you really want to understand this case, their is plenty of documentation available. I would recommend "The Empire Journal" http://www.empirejournal.com as good place to start. Hyscience is an excellent resource as well. But if you just want to rant about this "vegetable", and say she's already dead, go ahead, those of us who have looked into it will pity your ignorance though, and misinformation like that could have a profound impact on your own end of life decision some day.

She may or may not have responded *initially*, but the fact is that she's responding *now*. So what if it took her brain a while to start regenerating? Does that mean the husband can decide to kill her NOW?

On the money: first, he's spent $500,000 of the $1.7 million settlement on lawyers trying to cruise her along toward starvation, part of it on him and his new girlfriend, and a fraction of whatever's left on a token effort at Terri's rehab. And sure, by now the money may be "running out", but is money a standard we use to determine when someone needs to live or die? Is it time to starve them when the "cash runs out?" By that logic, you can speed anyone along to death just by spending their money on dubious items without their consent. ("Sorry honey, these right-to-die legal fees and expenses on the new girlfriend are eating me alive. No more food for you.")

The "legal standing" argument is a canard that ignores the husband's demonstrated patterns of abusive behavior and inherent conflicts of interest, as well as the parents' willingness to take on the burden of care for their child. His legal standing is based on a hearsay claim that materialized *after* he got the $1.7 mil. At this point, the Terri Schiavo case is a case for CSI Tampa, not euthanasia court. (This is where the press has been weak IMHO.)

Lastly, under the old line of B.S., some of us "evildoers" would have been okay with letting the husband pull the plug on her assuming (1) there was a plug to pull and (2) she was never coming out of her coma (or inhumane suffering of an obvious kind).

Apparently there's no plug, and there's no coma either, nor any inhumane suffering (except what the husband is about to put her through). Please forgive us. We were lied to.

Now that the husband's little boondoggle has been exposed as a fraud, what's going to happen to him? And what's going to happen to Terri? I think the public will be on her side if the word gets out. But it'd better happen QUICKLY if her execution is going to be stayed/re-evaluated.

. husband real victim
- wife died 15 years ago
- husband cast as villain for wanting to pull the
plug and get on with his life
- Schindlers have no legal standing
- many forms of rehabilitation were attempted in
first yrs. of condition; she did not respond or
recover
- nearly all the settlement has now been spent on
rehabilitation attempts and continual care

Where's the truth? Sounds like a "we say, they say" situation.