Why is it that those who believe so much in a place called Heaven, fight so hard to keep anybody and everybody here, alive, and out of Heaven?

Parts of Terri Schiavo's brain have liquefied. That means that where she should have brain tissue, she has liquid. Court appointed doctors have looked at her and say there is no hope of recovery. None. Terri Schiavo is not coming back. There's nothing to come back to.

Terri's lower brain still works. It tells her body to breath, go to the bathroom, sleep, and unfortunately, cause random movements and sometimes smiles. Her eyes are open, and she sometimes smiles. This is why her parents think that she's still here, and I'll admit that if it was my child, I'd probably also have a hard time accepting the smiles and movement as random signals from her lower brain. But this is the truth, and we're not talking about her husband's doctor saying this or that. We're talking about several doctors who do not have a connection to the woman other than the fact they examined her.

I hate that if they are able to legally keep her feeding tube out that she'll starve to death. But doctors also say she doesn't feel pain. She won't hurt. She won't know that she's dying. She won't feel a thing. Even so, I'd still rather there be some type of assisted suicide in this case. It wouldn't be really be suicide but more euthanasia for Terri. And isn't euthanasia just a can of worms?

If life gets too horrible and each moment is a living hell, I don't see what's wrong with checking out early. I'm not talking about a person suffering from depression, but more like somebody who has lived a good life and now crippled in some way or is suffering from pain or an incurable disease.

There is a law in Texas, signed into law by then governor Bush, that says that a hospital can terminate care if there is no hope of recovery. The patient's family gets ten days to find another hospital. Recently, over the family's wishes, a hospital in Texas removed a breathing tube from an infant who had no chance of survival. The infant died moments later.

I'm not so sure there is a difference between the infant and Terri. Death is a part of life. You can't avoid it. Why not embrace it sometimes especially if you do believe there is a place to go after you die? I'm just afraid that in Terri Schiavo's situation is that there are people seeing what they want to see, for whatever reason. And I'm including politicians in that as well. I personally believe that Terri left this world almost fifteen years ago, and the only thing left is a shell.

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