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\nBush the Savior<\/em><\/strong>
\nThere you are, and the worst happens: your wife dies after a sudden heart attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Somehow, you get through the surreal nightmare of the funeral and all the rest, and begin the grieving process.<\/p>\n
Several years down the road, if you\u2019re lucky, your life has more or less returned to normal.<\/p>\n
But not for Michael Schiavo. For him, the nightmare has continued for all of the last fifteen years.<\/p>\n
As a side-effect of bulimia in February 1990, Terri Schiavo suffered a heart attack and sustained severe non-reversible brain damage as a result of prolonged oxygen deprivation during resuscitation.<\/p>\n
The doctor\u2019s diagnosis was that she was in a persistent vegetative state, with no hope of rehabilitation. She had almost no cerebral cortex left \u2013 it\u2019s just gone, apparently as a result of the heart attack and oxygen deprivation. She could not feed herself; she had to wear diapers. She was, for all intents and purposes, \u201cbrain dead.\u201d She had no cognitive abilities left; she was not self-aware.<\/p>\n
Michael Schiavo disregarded the doctor\u2019s advice and retained some hope she could get better. Against all odds, for the next eight years, different rehabilitation therapies were tried \u2013 but all to no avail.<\/p>\n
So then after eight long years of torture, finally convinced his wife was truly not coming back, Michael Schiavo reluctantly petitioned the court to have her feeding tube taken out \u2013 allowing Terri to finish the process of dying.
\nBut Terri\u2019s parents opposed this in court, and she was kept alive, against the wishes of her husband.<\/p>\n
And the un-ending nightmare for Michael Schiavo continues.
\nTerri remains today in the persistent vegetative state she entered fifteen years ago, with no improvements at all. Nothing has changed from 1990. The doctors all agree that barring divine intervention, there is no hope whatsoever for any recovery.<\/p>\n
But her parents, the Schindlers, persist in their mindless quest to keep her body alive.<\/p>\n
This is so sad.<\/p>\n
I really and truly feel sorry for the Schindlers. I can understand the pain they are suffering; no parent wants to see their child die. It\u2019s inconceivable<\/em> a child should predecease a parent.<\/p>\n The Schindlers need to stop this nonsense, now, and let Terri go. They\u2019ve turned the whole case into a cause celebre<\/em> for the right-to-life, right-to-die movement. They\u2019re capturing headlines now on a daily basis, the latest of which features President Bush actually interrupting his vacation to fly back to Washington DC to sign a special law allowing the Schindlers to intervene yet again.<\/p>\n This whole thing disgusts me.<\/p>\n The Republicans are trying to inflict their right-wing moral judgments onto Michael Schiavo solely in order to make a high-profile political statement. The courts have consistently<\/em> found in favor of Michael Schiavo. The Schindlers have lost at every turn. It\u2019s unlikely that this new review in federal court will go any differently than all the others. So all Bush and Congress have done is postpone the inevitable.<\/p>\n Just for political gain.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n This is dead wrong.<\/p>\n In the words of Michael Schiavo, \u201cMr. Bush should be ashamed of himself.\u201d<\/em> God, I feel sorry for Michael Schiavo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Terri Schiavo Should Be Allowed To Die Bush the Savior There you are, and the worst happens: your wife dies after a sudden heart attack. Somehow, you get through the surreal nightmare of the funeral and all the rest, and begin the grieving process. Several years down the road, if you\u2019re lucky, your life has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut their daughter has <\/em>died, and they\u2019re deluding themselves if they think there\u2019s any chance of her returning. All that made Terri Schiavo unique and alive is gone, irretrievably lost. What\u2019s left is just the empty vessel that once carried the essence of her soul. To think otherwise is denial, in its very most severe form.<\/p>\n
\nWhile the Schindler\u2019s intervention is somewhat understandable, the intervention of Bush and the Congress is unconscionable.<\/p>\n
\nThe whole thing is quite absurd.<\/p>\n
\nBush and Congress have no business at all getting involved in a personal decision like this. They need to but-out now, before they inflict any more harm.<\/p>\n