I have spent an eternity saying this.

[conuly]

Terri Schiavo is not on life support. She does not use a ventilator. I don't know where that story started, but here it ends. She is not hooked up to any machines. She uses a feeding tube. That is not life support. Taking her off the feeding tube will cause her to - slowly - starve or dehydrate.

There is evidence that she reacts to things around her. There is also evidence that her condition would be drastically improved if the money from the settlement had gone towards her treatment instead of her husband's court bills.

So please, base your opinions off of accurate information.

And now, I will let other people talk about being in situations where they were believed dead, and post those links (links I've posted before) about other people who nearly died because "after all, she's not going to recover, might as well pull the plug now" - and at the time, they were conscious.

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[gingembre.livejournal.com]

sorry, but MY husband makes enough to support us now.

I do hope you're not trying to insult my husband with this comment. It's a sad thing indeed if you value your own role as a stay at home parent so little.

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[lizziey.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't insult Abdul. I happen to like and respect him. He hasn;t done anything to me or my family to get the comment dierected to him, in fact, Frannie has told me about a couple times he and her have had discussions, and when he helped her to shovel the steps becasue she was having trouble, so in fact, the comment was NOT directed at him. i SHOULD have said, my spouse...since it was direcetd at you. I wasn't the one who got specific dierections on how to do my job, disregarded them, and lost a client a shitload of money.

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[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Actually, the story of how I lost my job is just that - a story. I didn't lose my job because I lost a client money. I didn't. If I had, I surely would not have gotten three months of severence pay plus my bonus. And as I work at a place now where people don't gossip like junior high schoolers, I really don't care.