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Originally Posted by NCB
Y'all can enshrine this guy in bronze all you want, but the fact remains that during this whole time, he has not let her recieve any therapy or rehab that might ease her suffering. He still could have went to the court and seek an "objective" opinion on what to do AND allow her to recieve therapy. He has not even allowed her parents to allow her to go outside for over 3 years.
If this is your defintion of a noble man or a hero, that's y'alls business. However, I personally think the man is a scumbag.
Let's put it this way. If it were your sister or daughter laying there and you needed to go to court to get a ruling to have the tuibe pulled, would you at least want her to recieve some sort of therapy? Hell, or at least allow her go outside?!!?
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first of all, she has had plenty of therapy. four years worth, and (according to the timeline found here:
http://www.miami.edu/ethics2/schiavo/timeline.htm she was even taken to cali for an experimental brain stimulation treatment).
if i were convinced that my brothers lights were on but no one was home then i wouldn't waste the time, energy or money on more therapy. it would be a waste. what difference would it make to someone who's not aware fo their surroundings whether they're inside or outside? none.
i had a friend from middle school get into a bad car accident and had major head trauma. originally, i heard that she wasn't likely to make it through the week. when she did, i heard that odds were taht if she was going to wake up and have any meaningful recovery, it would have to happen within the first year following the accident. after that, the odds of recovery dropped drastically. luckly, she woke up from her coma after about a month.
michael schavo gave her four years of therapy and it did no good. that's much more than he needed to. and once he realized that there was no chance, he had the balls to follow through with her wish on not being kept alive in that condition. if that were me, i'd hope my loved ones would have the balls too.