Unclear on the concept

[docwebster]

You know, this Terri Schialvo thing and peoples reactions here on LJ have got me skeeved just a bit. Why? Because I'm not real sure people are clear on just how that woman is apparently now going to die.

Starvation and thirst, people. She is either going to starve to death or die of thirst.

I just don't understand people.

Apparently, her "husband" wants to "put it behind him".

PUT IT BEHIND HIM?

She's your goddamn wife, you sack of crap, not some old car!

Comments

[inkmistress.livejournal.com]

And this, my friends, is why we should have euthanasia for our people.
We have it for our beloved pets so that we can end their misery when they become terminally ill or horribly injured because it's the humane thing to do.....

I would hope that my husband would put a bullet in my head before it came to something like this!

[freakyme.livejournal.com]

I agree. I don't think anyone should be kept alive the way they have kept her for so long. I don't believe that anyone should die that way though either.

[eleri.livejournal.com]

amen.

As for him being her husband, and wanting to put it behind him...

It's been 15 years. He's remarried. He probably went through the greiving process for her 'death' *years* ago. For 15 years her parents have, in essence, been ressurecting her zombie and bringing it back to haunt him.