The lies from Terri's family & their representatives -- understandable?

The lies, such as Terri apparently saying "I want to live" (as well as the production of highly-edited videotape), continue at an increased rate in the last days. Do you understand the family's desperation, and forgive them for their last-gasp attempts to do something -- anything -- to save Terri? Or do their claims (and their lawyers and spokespeople's claims) disgust you?

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I don't know, I read in some article they think that right to die is suicide, and if she commit's suicide she'll burn in hell. Where's spock when you need him?

their daughter, they should have sought true religious and professional help to deal with it in a dignified manner. They have created this circus and their daughter is like the freak show. I could never claim to love my child and yet put him through anything like this. I would want him to go, "sweetly, into the night".

I've defended the Schindlers on DU while keeping my own frustration at bay. I can't imagine their pain, and I honestly think they've been brainwashed by Randall Terry and Co. But that doesn't mean it doesn't anger me, escpecially while Mr. Schiavo doesn't appear to do anything mean-spirited in return.

they truly think they can save her, the still believe she can get better, and because they want to hear her say those things so badly they hear reflexive grunts as her trying desparately to communicate.

What is disgusting in all this is the lawyers, politicians, right-to-life activists, ministers, and a host of other self-serving bastards that keep giving them false hope, dragging this tragedy on and on, and making their grief and pain exponentially worse. They might have never listened, but things might be very different if they had ministers and counselors and friends helping them to respect her wishes, to have realistic expectations, and to let her die with dignity. We might not have ever heard of Theresa Schiavo.

On Edit: okay, I didn't read all the choices. Change my vote to "somewhere in between/both>" (next time I'll read more carefully before I cast my vote!)

also. But, for the life of me, I can't abide by lies of this magnitude. The lies, mis-and disinformation is causing other people to consider and apparently plan violent acts.

If they had truthful facts they wanted aired that might be one thing. I just can't deal with the lies.

I can't blame them for feeling this way.


But that is no excuse for causing all this hurt and harm to others. Help is available. There are so many alternative ways this story could've ended.

Throwing these legal tantrums is unproductive for everyone involved.




Feeling sad, depressed, lonely about one's daughter is natural. But that's not a blank check to go bananas.

Their daughter seems like she was a nice person. What happened to her is sad.

But what they and their rightwing patrons are putting the rest of us through is uncalled for.

They need to STFU already. People die. Shit happens. Get over it.

people die, shit happens. But WE put OURSELVES thru this farce by reading, listening, posting and talking about it. I'm as guilty as anyone. I'll try once again..NO MORE TERRI, no reading, listening, no posting. My nerves can't take it. Goodnight, all. Be back after the circus closes down.

just in case such words were uttered?

Unbelievable!

WAAAAAAAAAA urp.

In their hearts, they feel that perjuring themselves will help save their daughter's life. I understand this mentality, because I was in almost the exact same situation when my best friend was severely brain damaged and his mother wanted to remove him from life support.

I blame the "protestors" (who only seem to be "pro-life" when it comes to the braindead and fetuses), the politicians and the media for making this whole situation an obscene circus. I feel terrible for all of the other patients and their familes in that hospice who are having to deal with the attention.

And I feel horrible for the staff at the hospice who are being called "concentration camp guards". Think about what kind of incredible, giving person would work with dying people all day, every day. They don't deserve this crap.

has been warped by charlatans. They have been used and they are now over the edge.

and it is understandable. It is caused by their stubborn, unrealistic desire to control things they can't control. It's the pain that happens when someone tries to get through a brick wall by hurdling themselves against it. We all do this once in a while -- try something utterly impossible and then feel angry and hurt because it doesn't work.

Actually, the pain is rather good for us. Eventually, when it just gets unbearable, we give up, accept reality and recognize that we are, after all, just lowly mortals, condemned to live in this frustrating reality for the length of our mortal lives. The strange thing is that Christianity promises a release from these mortal limitations. That's what the Resurrection into the eternal life of infinite possibility is supposed to be about. How ironic that these fanatical Christians can't see that -- yet.