Help save Terri Schiavo

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[Guest Stepoffaith]

>

> MEDIA LIES

>

> If you've heard about Terri only through the news media, you've

> probably been led to believe things like this:

>

> * Terri brain dead.

> * She is in a coma.

> * She's a vegetable.

> * Extraordinary means are being used to keep her alive.

> * She wants to die but her parents stubbornly won't let it happen.

>

> None of these things are true!

>

> Terri is NOT brain dead. She is NOT in a coma. She is NOT in a

> "persistent vegetative state." And she is not on ANY life-support

> system.

>

>

> THE FACTS THE MEDIA HIDES FROM YOU

>

> When her parents visit her, Terri laughs, she cries, she moves, and

she

> makes child-like attempts at speech with her mother and father.

> Sometimes she will say "Mom" or "Dad" or "yeah" when they ask her a

> question. And when they kiss her hello or goodbye, she looks at them

> and "puckers up" her lips.

>

> She's able to sit in a chair, she loves to listen to her favorite

> music, and she recognizes her brother and sister when they come to

> visit.

>

> Board-certified neurologist Dr. Jacob Green of Jacksonville, Florida,

> who examined Terri, said unequivocally: "She is not in a vegetative

> state." When asked if it would be ethical to remove her feeding tube,

> he said, "I'd call it murder."

>

> Terri receives food and liquid through a feeding tube because she

can't

> swallow. In other words, Terri depends on food and water to stay

> alive-just like everybody else!

>

> But her husband, Michael, wants to disconnect her only means of food

so

> that she will slowly starve to death.

>

> Medical experts all agree that death by starvation and dehydration is

> perhaps the most painful, the most tortuous, and the most agonizing

way

> to die.

>

> Yes, Terri's injury left her disabled. But there are tens of

thousands

> of disabled people who depend on gastro feeding tubes every day, and

> they live otherwise normal lives.

>

>

> Terri can breathe for herself. She is not on a ventilator. Her vital

> organs are working fine, which means she is not hooked up to a

machine.

> Furthermore, she is NOT dying or being "kept alive" by artificial

> means. She does not have a terminal disease, and she will be able to

> feel pain if she is starved to death.