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Well, if none of you heard, Terri Shaivo died this morning on March 31, 2005. For some of you didn't hear about her, I'll tell the story.

About 10 years ago, Terri Shaivo went over to her husband's house, Michael Shaivo, to break up and get a divorce. The day she went over there, her family told her not to go because they thought he would do something terrible to her, possibly kill her. Terri didn't listen, so she went over. Terri's family hadn't heard of her for a while, because they thought it would be a quick deal. When Terri's family arrived, Terri was bloody, bruised, and lost a lot of oxygen to her brain but not enough to kill her. She was then put into a hospice where she spent almost a third of her life in a bed. The doctors had a feeding tube attached, to give Terri food and water. They also gave Terri a life support machine, but soon after didn't need it. 5 years after, Michael "just remembered" that Terri wanted to have her feeding tube disconnected. The court, Michael, and Terri's family fought over this until the the middle of March of this year, they had Terri's feeding tube disconnected because she was "brain dead". For 16 days Terri went without food nor water, they were starving her. Today she died. And I'll tell you why I'm so ********' mad.

Before the final f tube disconnecting, the court disconnected it so many times before. Michael Shaivo obviosly tried to kill Terri, and succeded. If you think all of this isn't proof of a murder, Michael wants the body creamated so no autopsy can be performed! Terri wasn't "brain dead", she could look around the room, and smile, and tried to say "I want to live!" right before the last tube disconnection... these liberals want people to live and not go to wars, "save the environment!" they say. But when it comes to violating you're human rights as an American, they don't give a s**t!

its ******** up

im personaly glad its over and the media can stop covering it

but lets look at it


mr shiavo-a dickhead supported by communists

terrys family-cared about her and would keep her alive at their own costs and obligations, supported by left and right wingers who felt the moral convictions, mostly church groups and things of that nature


who would you support?

You do realize that there are more crimes that you can do to another human? You can attempt to murder them, you can assualt them, abuse them. Any one of those would apply to a man who beat his wife into a PVS.

First of all, the girl had multiple fractures, bruses, cuts, etc. all over her body. Fratures, bruses, and cuts that you don't get from collapsing due to a heart attack. But really, keep telling yourself it was that. (sorry, I'm really pissed off that people are trying to dumb this whole thing down)



Second, yes, she was reacting to her environment. And there was much reason to believe that she would have recovered if a speech therapist had been able to work with her. Her husband, of course, refused to let anyone work with her that might help her. But she did understand. She reacted in ways that let people know that she understood.



Yes, and I also find it disturbing that he almost beat his wife to death, placed her in a hospital, trained to become a nurse so he could try and inject her with insulin to kill her, STARVED her, placed police in her hospital room to watch her parents so they wouldn't be able to sneek her water and made them watch her die, slowly and painfully.

Yes, yes, that's disturbing. You know, just a TAD.

Agreed. This issue is quite the powder keg, especially in light of her passing away so recently. I was only trying to bring the broadly-accepted facts of the matter into the discussion. I did not intend to cause any incivility...my apologies.

Ok, say she suffered from a heart attack, but that doesn't explain the bruises on her body, from being inflicted by another person.

See I don't know...this is the sort of thing that I think should not be just left up to the spouse to decide. If the spouse happens to be an abuser (or is at least suspected to be) the parents can do nothing about it for it is up to the husband to decide what type of autopsy will be performed. I think more power should be held to the parents to decide what should be done to their daughter, where she should be burried (or cremated), and just how to handle the situation in gerneral.

JunJunTB and Lixnia are smart, unlike some liberals *washes mouth with soap* who doubt the evidence that's in front of them! A lot of people have to think inside the box as well, or there's no logic. I hope you understand that all... biggrin