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Originally posted by freesurfer
That's 13 years in a coma....that is so sad
I see this as a good hot potato topic! I feel really mixed on this....one side is that the woman deserve to rest and be at peace...but yet....she just could come out of it. Could you imagine holding onto your daughter laying in a hospital for 13 years??? And just really never knowing.
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Well, if I remember right, she's only brain-damaged, not brain-dead. She's not in a coma. So there's no chance of her 'coming out of it'. She's always going to be in her present vegetative state. But she is breathing on her own and is only hooked to a feeding tube. She's also responsive to people around her and because of that, it would be hard for me to let her go too if she were my daughter. If she couldn't breathe OR eat on her own, I would have to question myself if it would be ethical for me to allow her to go on in that state. But if she could breathe on her own and only needed the feeding tube for sustenance, I wouldn't disconnect it. As long as the money was available for me to continue her treatment in that manner for as long as I could, I would.
As long as Terry's parents had the money to give her the treatment, they should be allowed to do whatever they want to keep her alive too. I'd hate to be in their shoes right now. Terry was such a beautiful girl before this happened too. It's so sad. You can read the whole story here:
http://www.terrisfight.org/ I personally think her husband ought to be shot for what he is doing.