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Zero_Hour:
Fredster,
I think the "one-sidedness" of the report comes largely that a majority of it is summarizing the past court actions which largely went against the parents. There was one passage from the report that I missed earlier that I think is particularly relevant - and a bit disturbing, to me anyway...
--- Quote ---Testimony provided by members of the Schindler family included very personal statements about their desire and intention to ensure that Theresa remain alive. Throughout the course of the litigation, deposition and trial testimony by members of the Schindler family voiced the disturbing belief that they would keep Theresa alive at any and all costs. Nearly gruesome examples were given, eliciting agreement by family members that in the event Theresa should contract diabetes and subsequent gangrene in each of her limbs, they would agree to amputate each limb, and would then, were she to be diagnosed with heart disease, perform open heart surgery. There was additional, difficult testimony that appeared to establish that despite the sad and undesirable condition of Theresa, the parents still derived joy from having her alive, even if Theresa might not be at all aware of her environment given the persistent vegetative state. Within the testimony, as part of the hypotheticals presented, Schindler family members stated that even if Theresa had told them of her intention to have artificial nutrition withdrawn, they would not do it. Throughout this painful and difficult trial, the family acknowledged that Theresa was in a diagnosed persistent vegetative state.
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GGKoul:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 23, 2005, 10:51:20 pm ---I see a TV special on its way... This crap is too much. Jeb Bush wants to be her guardian, yet George Bush signed that law in Texas. WAAAY to much politics involved here. I put $5 down saying the parents make a mint off this one.
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Sadly, Nobody wants to make a bad PR move ...
shmokes:
I wonder less about when the parents will accept the reality of Terri's condition than when Dartful will accept it.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 24, 2005, 12:51:06 am ---I wonder less about when the parents will accept the reality of Terri's condition than when Dartful will accept it.
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ROFL! *Applause*
Sincerely,
mr.Curmudgeon
Founder - Shmokes FanClub!
SirPeale: