Cnn just said that the family filed the appeal.

Cnn also just had some woman on who had been one of Terri's nurses making all these outrageous claims about things that happened that there's absolutely no documentation of. The woman seems to be a conspiracy theorist and said that there's been a gag order on everything, blah blah blah. The CNN guy made it a point to mention several times that there was absolutely no evidence to back up anything she was saying. It was kinda funny

can't they inject her with something?

To expedite her death? Maybe, but at this point with the parents fighting everything, it would have to be a renegade nurse or doctors doing it in the middle of the night.

Unfortunately I think this is going to keep dragging on. I wish they would just let the hospital remove the tube.

I just don't understand how someone can talk about religion and want to use a machine to defy nature and G-d.

I'm willing to listen. Someone please just tell me how they could think that.

-Rudey

i understand the parents position...but still, lets be reasonable. starvation....what a horrible way to go.

It amazes me when those who want her to stay connected say "we don't do this to animals or criminals" when they refer to the cruelty of starvation...

I want to yell back "right, and we are compassionate enough to use something to end their misery right away! A shot!"

Sometimes I think the Dutch have their way of handing situations like this right....

Yeah, but honestly, it can't be any worse than the way she was actually living

That's what I'm thinking. I don't think anything can be all that much worse from how things are now.

Also, I wasn't sure, but does the malpractice settlement cover her current medical expenses?

yea, but it'd be much more merciful to end it easily for her. she's already suffered for going on 15 years.

I think I read somewhere that as soon as they take the feeding tube out, they put her on a morphine drip. That way, if she's aware in kind of way, she won't feel any pain from the hunger or dehydration. I think it's actually a very peaceful way to die.

I skimmed through the judge's opinion, and it makes sense all over. The parents wanted an amendment so favorable to them that congress screwed them over with their wording. Because it's a de novo appeal, the judge can't consider trial court evidence. The twist for the parents is that all their allegations of the trial court judge being impartial can't be proven without looking at the trial court's evidence. So they basically their lawyers messed up with the complaint.

Hopefully she'll pass on soon so the parents will give up on this waste of time. But who knows, perhaps congress will pass legislation that makes it unlawful to rule in favor of a defendant, just in this case...:rolleyes:

People in power (i.e. Tom Delay) are saying that letting her die is barbaric and inhumane. I think keeping her in this state is barbaric and inhumane. If our dog was suffering like this, we wouldn't keep letting it suffer. With Congress stepping in, Terri Schiavo is turning into a political instrument for a certain political idealogy (sp?) rather than her as a person that is suffering.

As for the medical malpractice covering her medical expenses, I heard Sunday on CNN that Terri's family (i.e. parents) are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Right for Life groups. I am sure that's what is paying for her medical bills, especially, now that one can't file for bankruptcy based on insufficient funds to pay for medical bills. Otherwise, we would have heard that she and her parents would have filed for bankruptcy by now after 15 years if they hadn't received the money from the Right for Life groups and malpractice suit. Her insurance policy probably maxed out a long time ago. I would put money on the fact that the money from the malpractice suit has been spent already.

starvation is a horrible way to go even if on a morphine drip-what a slow death. I watched my grandfather suffer the same fate and if I could have injected him with something to end his life quickly it would not only have made it easier on him but also on his family. Why prolong the inevitable?

As far as religion goes, I would think that these religious freaks would want her to enter her other life so she can be free of her physical jail. After all, isn't heaven the ultimate goal?

she's receiving medicaid benefits as well.