You are killing her! The offical line of the morning shows.

[slater71]

So far all the pubes have said that if you wanted the feeding tube removed you are killing her. And of course it`s the democrats.

[bluedog]

1. do it already

n/t

[slater71]

2. Please delete this. Soeey for the dupe.

[Toots]

3. Then in the next breath they say she can drink water and swallow.

Apparently they can't make up their mind. Either she can't eat drink or swallow so needs the tube re-inserted or she is just fine and needs a walk in the park..:crazy:

[ClassWarrior]

4. And if you don't, you're going against God's will.

NGU.

[radfringe]

9. they just reframed the issue

back to focus on one woman...issue is larger than that

DO YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT MAKING THESE KIND OF DECISIONS FOR YOU? Do you want POLITICIANS (DEMS OR REPUGS) deciding that you or a loved one has to stay hooked up to artificial supports for an indefinite period of time?

[ClassWarrior]

14. Exactly!

NGU.

[radfringe]

5. relates to alzheimer's and use of feeding tubes

Feeding Tubes May Not Help in Severe Dementia (Alzheimer's) - yet use varies widely
http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Alzheimer's/3-07-07tubes.htm

July 7, 2003 - Feeding tubes may neither delay death nor improve quality of life for nursing home patients with severe dementia, yet the use of feeding tubes varies widely. In some states the use of feeding tubes is more than 10 times the rate of other states, according to a new study by Brown University researchers.

"Such striking variation calls for increased communication among physicians, patients prior to their developing this level of dementia, families and nursing home regulators," said lead author Joan Teno, M.D., professor of community health and medicine at the Brown Medical School. The study appears as a research letter in the June 26, 2002, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Teno and colleagues analyzed records for 1999 from the Minimum Data Set, a national repository of nursing home data. The data set included information on feeding tube use among 385,741 U.S. nursing home residents with severe dementia.

Nationwide, about 18 percent of nursing home residents with severe dementia had a feeding tube, with use rates varying from 3.8 percent in Nebraska to 44.8 percent in the District of Columbia. The only identified factor that was closely associated with the interstate differences was physician use of "do-not-resuscitate orders" (DNRs). For each 10-percent increase in the use of DNR orders in a state, there was a 4.5-percent decrease in feeding tube use.

--snip--

Editors: State-by-state findings on feeding tube use, DNR orders, and orders to forgo artificial hydration and nutrition will be available at www.chcr.brown.edu/dying/factsondying.htm when the embargo lifts at 4 p.m. on June 26. That Web site also includes individual state reports of pain management, site of death, number of terminally ill patients and other information related to the nation's nursing homes. Prior to June 26, reporters may access the embargoed information at www.chcr.brown.edu/dying2002/factsondying.htm.

[zanne]

7. Link doesn't work.

But I really want to read more. Could you fix it somehow?

[radfringe]

11. try this -- second article down

http://www.google.com/custom?domains=SeniorJournal.com&q=feeding+tubes&sa=Search&sitesearch=SeniorJournal.com&client=pub-6904530689694087&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A000000%3BLC%3A000000%3BT%3A0000FF%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A1%3B&hl=en


going to have to cut/paste it into your browser... sorry
don't know why the other link did not work

[Catchawave]

6. Terri's brother asked CNN....

"...if her dying is so peaceful, why won't they put a camera in her room to prove it?"

I tell ya, this guy's going to be a pundit on Fox News one day!

[zbdent]

10. Then the world would probably see that she's

sedated and not "suffering" - thus hurting his case.

Grandstanding again. Doing so just because he knows it won't happen.

But then, you think about it, the Shindlers (sp?) would make a bundle of money selling the video rights to the fundies !!!

[radfringe]

12. umm if our troops are dying for freedom

why can't we have pics of their coffins being unloaded?

[Jack Rabbit]

8. I hope there's some balance to this coverage

Some of these people are so unbalanced that it might not help.

[Greylyn58]

13. This is the insane "gift"

that keeps on giving. The MSM are beyond belief. The polls show that the majority of Americans (Dem or Repub) think the government should stay out of a family matter, yet the press continues to stir the pot.

After all it's good press and it keeps the masses watching. We don't have a news media anymore. It's totally become about entertainment and sensationalism.

My biggest fear is that when Terri does die it won't be over because the press and all the leeches hanging around the Schindler's won't let it go.

[scarletlib]

15. what a beautiful dog

is he/she yours?

edit to add it is good to see such beauty, such life on this thread.

[Greylyn58]

17. Yes he is

That's my baby boy Sheridan. Not really a baby anymore, he's 9 now.

[elehhhhna]

16. Thought crimes.