Monsters
Schiavo Autopsy Shows Severe Brain Damage: “A meticulous study of the organs, fluids, bones, cells and medical records of the Florida woman who became a cause celebre over the ‘right to die’ also found that her brain was severely shriveled and weighed about half that of a normal adult’s. The damage to it ‘was irrecoverable, and no amount of treatment or rehabilitation would have reversed’ it, said pathologist Jon R. Thogmartin, who is the chief medical examiner for Florida’s sixth judicial district. The damage was especially severe in the region responsible for vision, making her functionally blind, he added.”
And so they dehydrated her to death.
I’d do better by one of my cats.
More and more I’ve come to wonder what the real harm would have been to let Terri Schiavo’s parents keep her alive. She could feel neither pain nor pleasure. Sure, it’s a little on the monstrous side to keep a body alive under those circumstances but it’s certainly no more monstrous than depriving the body of water and food and just waiting around for it to die.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on June 15, 2005 under Uncategorized
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