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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
Rather than me doing this for you, go to google news, and type in "Schiavo, no MRI, no PET."
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Sadly, the most credible source this turned up was an Op-ed in USA Today by Tom Delay. At any rate, I can tell you why there was no PET. Five years ago NO ONE was getting PETs unless they were part of a federally funded research experiement, it's new technology, and Mrs. Schiavo's guardian gave up on her recovery long before they became available.
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I think her family deserves a fresh judicial perspective on this case.
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Yeah, tenth time's the charm huh?
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If you believe in the "heaven or hell" scenario, then you'd believe that God has a plan for us on his own time, not ours.
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Seems to me like if God had a plan for Terry, we've been interfering with it for 15 years already. Not that I buy that whole "God's plan" business, just speaking hypothetically.
You know what I don't get? Since when do we cherish life as a state of simply breathing and digesting? I mean, hypothetically, do we keep someone alive as a brain in a jar, if we have the technology, just because we can, even if we still don't know enough about the working of said brain to know if it's functioning at whatever arbitrary level it needs to be classified as "human life"?
PS, FUCK the Roman Catholic Church's stance on this. For one, not all Catholics agree with the vatican on every issue, thank GOD. For another there's a difference between caring for the sick and mechanically extending the life of a braindead person. Let's be clear, whatever Terry's wishes actually were is NOT even part of her parents, or Rome's stance on this.