Clowns that protest (Schiavo)

[Its Gravy]

99.99% of them are not qualified to give any MEDICAL advice or opinion.
PS I had an Uncle last March, declared Brain Dead on a Saturday Mar 06, 2004. The only thing keeping him "alive" and I use that term loosely was the machines. THere was zero brain activity and no chance at recovery. My aunt told the doctors to pull the plug that following tuesday.

What do you all think. I think some people are nuts and become attached and become so engrossed in "faith, etc' they are blind to some freaking common sense. A braindead person is Dead, not alive. It is deemed/termed clinical death.
Thats all I got :cursin:

Here is an excerpt i copied from a Neurologist explaining what may appear to be awareness displayed by Schiavo

The condition is confusing because patients in a persistent vegetative state still have the use of a primitive part of the brain, the stem. The brain stem allows them to go through sleep-wake cycles, keeps them breathing and produces facial expressions that can make it look as though they are aware of their surroundings, Albin says.


But those movements are merely reflexes, says Bruce Sigsbee, a neurologist in Rockport, Maine.

 

[kosar]

Your uncles case was different and there's a 100+ post thread about it in the political forum here.

 

[dr. freeze]

99.99% of them are not qualified to give any MEDICAL advice or opinion.QUOTE]

apparantly, neither are you

 

[yyz]

......but I'll bet he can figure out the "quote" function.

 

[dr. freeze]

......but I'll bet he can figure out the "quote" function.

another sarcastic dumb ass comment from the geek of the board

 

[yyz]

Yeah.......sorry I don't have the desire to get all wound up over the shit you argue about all day long, in a weak assed attempt to feel superior to the minions of this board.

 

[Bif "The Hat"]

Who has the right to decide weather someone lives or dies?
Should it be her family who still take care of her or should it be her husband who now lives with another woman and has 2 kids by the other woman?
The husband won a 1.2 million dollar lawsuit in 1992 to have her rehabilitated. Instead he used the money for legal fees to get her feeding tube removed.
I believe what goes around comes around.

 

[ferdville]

I am amazed at the reaction to this case as well. i suspect that many people are simply afraid to speak out for fear of looking bad. However, every single poll that has been taken has shown two things beyond a doubt -
1. The majority of Americans feel they should take the tube out
2. The majority of Americans feel that the federal government should have stayed out of it

 

[Bombs]

I am amazed at the reaction to this case as well. i suspect that many people are simply afraid to speak out for fear of looking bad. However, every single poll that has been taken has shown two things beyond a doubt -
1. The majority of Americans feel they should take the tube out
2. The majority of Americans feel that the federal government should have stayed out of it

You can add #3:

3. The majority of Americans do not understand either the Medical or Social aspects of this case.

 

[dr. freeze]

#4. An even larger majority of Americans have not been presented with enough information about the medical, social, legal, and personal aspects of this case.

 

[Bif "The Hat"]

Its not the majority of Americans wife, mother, daughter, friend.
We are talking about a human life here.
I'll ask again who has the right to decide when to take it?

 

[scott4]

the ironic thing is her being ill was caused from being bulemic. sorry but she is already dead let her go.