exactly. And after going through the literature line by line with Larr, I still think she has a chance that nobody has let her try yet...
Dana On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:57:05 -0600, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > nnnnoooo, I don't think so. I am simply trying to put myself in her > > place. > > Just curious, but what do you think her place is? At a minimum she's > massively brain damaged and whoever she was is most likely gone > forever. What's there today is just the empty container that used to > hold her. > > I guess we'd all hold out hope that if we were in her position some > new therapy would come along and restore us as if we'd been in a coma. > Sadly though, she's not in a coma so we have a good gauge of where > she's at. > > In all probability there's no therapy that could ever restore her if > the cells that held the "her" encoding have died. That means that Ms. > Schiavo passed away 15 years ago and the question today is what do we > do with this new person? > > From this perspective, oddly, Terri, although gone, still owns her > "container" which is actually a human. Were she here the law says > it's her decision on what's to be done with the container even though > it's a person. But because she's gone this decision falls onto her > husband. > > As bio-engineering becomes more advance and we start getting products > like new organs grown specifically for you, from you, these decisions > become verrrryyyy tricky. > > Back to reality though, if it were my wife, I'd keep her on life support. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:148727 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
