Takes about 3 days or so without water for the average Joe. Is that tidbit about retained water true? I guess it would have to be...

That's Funny.

I love how people think it's a right to die case when there's been no reports or evidence that she has asked them to die either. Make no mistake about it, this is not a right to die case whatsoever. It's basically a quality of life case that cannot be substantiated by a team Doctors, Psychologists and Philosophers according to recent reports from her doctors on MSNNBC VS. a right to die case that only exists from the Husband's hearsay. If other convincing conditions existed then I’d be completely for the tube removal.

But nurses attempting to give her water is no rumor. One has been arrested already. Not sure if she actually placed a cup to her lips though.

 

Her parents are even being searched (Maybe everyone that enters the room but I only heard reports of her parents) because they were trying to smuggle in food and water for her. My guess is that it was baby food because I doubt she could pick up a cheeseburger if they brought her a Happy Meal from McDonalds.

Her brain is gone, all that is left is the brain stem and a melon full of fluid, so it is not a quality of life thing. She no longer exists, and if there is a little piece of her brain that has any fragment of her memory of what she used to be, that little bit of her is nothing more than a prisoner in a useless body.

 

I wonder now, if she does indeed die are supporters of youthanasia going to march on capital hill and try for a law to pass making it legal? Or is this really not the same thing? I kinda think it has ties.

 

She went longer than this without food or water last time they removed the tube.

 

Yup it was re-installed on the 6th day if I remember right...

 

This is not euthanasia.

Euthanasia: The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.

there is nothing lethal being injected, and a feeding tube is not extraordinary medical treatment.

 

maybe there is a seperate tube for water and for food? I thought you could go a week without water...

 

the average joe might indeed last 3 days without water, but this poor woman is not exactly average. at her activity level (which is pretty much zero by the way) she could probably last quite a bit longer.

 

What do a bunch of kids in China have to do with Terri Schiavo?

 

lol thats really good

 

There is a feeding tube that takes care of both water and nutrition. It is not like they shove a cheeseburger down the tube or anything, they use a nutrition paste that is designed to both hydrate and feed at the same time and is also designed to minimize waste.

Now what I want to know is if the bed she is in has a cutout so her bare *** can hang through so she can do her business. That would be the easiest way, all you have to do is hose her off when she is done and change the bucket underneath from time to time...

 

Theres probably a tube for that too. Its not like she can Sqeeze or anything

 

Eventually as the log jam starts to back up I am sure that the new one will push the old one out.

Hell you never know since she can not push and can not move maybe it comes out as a single brown rope and they just cut it off from time to time when it gets too long - like fingernails or something. And maybe they even put different colored food coloring in her meal of mush to see if they can make a rainbow rope. I know I would...

 

hey who know maybe they reinsert it as a food source.

or maybe they suck it out with some sort of vacuum.

 

OMG!! :rotfl: