Looks like the family is finally letting the last-resorts go. Not like they had many options, or time, left anyway. Must be hard on them, but honestly there comes a time when keeping her "alive" is just because you're scared to let her go. Now her family that's survived just have to turn around and support one another while they're learning to accept that she'll be officially gone pretty soon.
I'm not overly fond of the husband though, from what I've heard of him he doesn't sound like a cool guy...
i think the only reason its even an issue is because she'l die of starvation and not something like respritory failure. it brings up a whole other issue that everyone seems to be dancing carefully around. Is it time to admit Kevorkian was just doing the work that no one else wants to to do? no body wants to see her starve to death but nothing has been sugested about just putting her down.
If your dog/cat/etc. was in a situation where they would be in pain or paralyzed or on life support for the rest of their lives, they would be put down. Not just to take them out of their misery, but because IT'S THE LAW! It's called "cruelty to animals" to keep them alive when they really won't be able to enjoy the rest of their life.
So why is it, if Rover can get put down when determined to be terminal, why can't you or I? I don't know if you have ever watched someone suffer for months, even years because of cancer or heart disease, but I have. 3 of my grandparents died of cancer, and my grandfather died of heart failure. It's terrible watching someone die slowly and painfully, knowing they want to die but knowing also they cannot take their own life.
It's not right. Sherri's mother struggles every day with her arterial condition. She can hardly take care of herself, some days she can't even get out of bed (which is why Sherri and I moved back in with her). She has told me (in confidence) many times that she wishes she could just die. She is in so much pain, but she says what is worse is knowing the burden she is on her family, knowing that basically Sherri has given up the past 4 years of her life to take care of her.
Now, there are times when Ginger (Sherri's mom) gets on my nerves, but I do not wish any harm to come to her. But if she wants to die, to be finally out of the pain she is in, why can't she be allowed to call someone like Kevorkian, to let her go WITH DIGNITY.
My grandparents didn't get to go with dignity. How dignified can you be when you're laying on a table suffocating to death because the cancer has taken your lungs over? How dignified can you be when your son has to change your diapers, and you don't even know who he is anymore because of the lack of oxygen getting to your brain? How dignified can you be relying on others to feed and dress you, because you simply cannot do it yourself anymore?
How dignified can you be when you have been in a vegitative state for the past 15 years?
If your dog/cat/etc. was in a situation where they would be in pain or paralyzed or on life support for the rest of their lives, they would be put down. Not just to take them out of their misery, but because IT'S THE LAW! It's called "cruelty to animals" to keep them alive when they really won't be able to enjoy the rest of their life.
So why is it, if Rover can get put down when determined to be terminal, why can't you or I? I don't know if you have ever watched someone suffer for months, even years because of cancer or heart disease, but I have. 3 of my grandparents died of cancer, and my grandfather died of heart failure. It's terrible watching someone die slowly and painfully, knowing they want to die but knowing also they cannot take their own life.
It's not right. Sherri's mother struggles every day with her arterial condition. She can hardly take care of herself, some days she can't even get out of bed (which is why Sherri and I moved back in with her). She has told me (in confidence) many times that she wishes she could just die. She is in so much pain, but she says what is worse is knowing the burden she is on her family, knowing that basically Sherri has given up the past 4 years of her life to take care of her.
Now, there are times when Ginger (Sherri's mom) gets on my nerves, but I do not wish any harm to come to her. But if she wants to die, to be finally out of the pain she is in, why can't she be allowed to call someone like Kevorkian, to let her go WITH DIGNITY.
My grandparents didn't get to go with dignity. How dignified can you be when you're laying on a table suffocating to death because the cancer has taken your lungs over? How dignified can you be when your son has to change your diapers, and you don't even know who he is anymore because of the lack of oxygen getting to your brain? How dignified can you be relying on others to feed and dress you, because you simply cannot do it yourself anymore?
How dignified can you be when you have been in a vegitative state for the past 15 years?
JUST LET HER DIE!
Well said. I agree.
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The three reasons why this case has gotten so much media attention:
#1: Greed
#2: Greed
#3: Greed
This is all about greed. She should've died years ago. The parents are being GREEDY because they want to keep her alive. Keeping a dead person alive isn't being humanitary, it's being GREEDY. It's being un-willing to accept the facts, un-willing to let someone have their own wishes, for the sake of oneself. Then all this crap with Jeb Bush... WTF? Stay out of it... oh, wait, you want to get more votes next election... now I understand why you stuck your nose where it in no way belonged.
I just read a NewsWeek story on her, I think yes, she should be put to rest and stop suffering. I know myself, I would not want to be even in that situation for more than a year. It's just not worth it. My other thoughts are, this could have been prevented, as a husband I think he didn't bother to notice she had the eating disorder. And before you jump on me, come on is not our job to care and notice everything wrong with your beloved other? I do, and my husband notices every single time when I'm not eating and he you know demands to know why. So yeah, he was so controlling in other aspects of her life, why not take control in that problem she had? She was already ok weight, actually under for her age. I guess that is all, no point in going in further, I feel really bad for her family and for her, for having to spend so much of her life like that, instead of living it.
