And that "healthcare" she got was being starved to death. The government is going to fix that right?Jon Stewart on Terri Schiavo: "If you want to know just how sick you have to get before Congress is willing to do something about health care, well, now you know."Actually, I do give a fuck. The Terri Schiavo case was a royal clusterfuck by GOP NaziCons. It was disgusting!
I didn't follow that case. I think it was Republicans wanted to kill her and Democrats didn't want to kill her. Did I get that right? Killing her would absolutely disgust me
It had nothing to do with democrats. The politicians who got involved were all republicans.
Terri Schiavo was a woman who ended up brain dead. The husband wanted to follow his wife's wishes. To turn off the machines and remove the feeding tube.
The parents didn't want that so they took him to court. The parents kept losing in court. I don't know how jeb bush got involved but I do remember senator bill frist who was a former doctor who diagnosed Terri Schiavo from watching a video of her. No examination of any sort. This senator is a republican. The rest of the republicans in congress passed a bill to not remove that feeding tube and the bush boy signed it.
It went before the supreme court and again, the parents lost and the husband won.
When they finally removed the feeding tube and she was finally allowed to be at rest, there was an autopsy done.
Turns out most of what her parents, jeb bush, bill frist and other republicans were saying was all lies.
The autopsy showed that she was blind and her brain was so deteriorated that it was liquifying.
She was a dead woman forced to stay on a feeding tube while the rest of her body was decomposing.
This is what happens when republicans force their big government nanny on the rest of us.
It's the same way my grandmother died.
She died in the 90s before we had doctor assisted suicide.
At that time my state was just like all the other states. The only thing a person can do is have a living will that says no medications, no food, no water. Just air. And a DNR.
My grandmother stayed alive without food or water for nearly 2 weeks.
She had alzheimers and so those 2 weeks were spent in horrible brain seizures. There was nothing we could do. Her living will prohibited anything but air. So we had to watch as she suffered until she died.
We now have a law here that prevents almost everyone from that fate. Unfortunately it doesn't cover alzheimers. When they're of a sound mind they aren't within 6 months of death. When they're within 6 months of death they don't have a sound mind.
So alzheimers patients still suffer a horrible death and there isn't much that we can do about it. We need to change the law so that it covers alzheimers patients.
The rest of the nation, with the exception of Oregon, doesn't have that law and so the only way to stop the suffering of machines and feeding tubes, is to turn the machines off, remove the tubes and let the person die.
I personally think that's a horrible way to die but that's all that's available in 48 states.
That is one reason I have a shotgun. A diagnosis of Alzheimer's means I will use it to blow my brains out within 48 hours.