Essay - Terri Schiavo in America, Patients and Family Members, After Taking...

Terri Schiavo

In America, patients and family members, after taking the views of doctors and probably a religious consultant daily involve themselves in exercising selection with regard to the termination of life-sustaining medical treatment in cases which are considered ***** be incurable. (Right to stay alive: Who decides?) The case of Terri Schiavo is considered as the most current ***** in this respect. ***** Schiavo was a 41 year old seriously handicapped woman from Florida who was the center of controversy by two major *****, judicial and legislative efforts: one to continue her life and ***** second one to permit her to die. (Euthanasia and Terri Schiavo: An overview) The case has become an international *****pic ***** debate because of the disagreement between her husband and her parents about whether her feeding tube needs to be disconnected or not. (Right to stay *****: Who *****?) Terri was not capable of ***** food or drinking on her own. She nourished by means of a ***** tube that was linked directly to the stomach. Earlier in three *****stances, ***** husband had obtained court approval to pull out the tube and ***** her to die by dehydration. Her family, the Florida courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and Congress had been very anxious over the issue by late 2005-March. Almost all the legal strategies requiring the reinsertion ***** ***** feeding tube appeared to have been finished until the time of ***** death on March 31, 2005. (Euthanasia ***** ***** Schiavo: An *****view)

Now the question arises ***** ********** should have *****ed the plug on Terri Schiavo. I pick the side ***** I d*****'t feel that they should have pulled the plug on Terri ***** because she was still alive. The pulling of the plug was c*****sidered as *****er injustice made to her and seen to irrelevant to forbid her a ***** tube, water and not even ice to be used for her dry lips, as she was alive. Presently, entailing a feeding ***** taken ***** be an ordinary thing; it is not an extra***** *****. Since she was ***** ***** t*****efore has every right to avail our moral obligations ***** providing ***** and water to any live human *****ing. (***** to ***** alive: Who decides?) This is more a moral concern exceeding politics and family disputes. (Euthanasia ***** Terri Schiavo: An overview) A patient ***** an ethical and moral compulsion to receive the normal life-sustaining medication until he/she is alive. (Life Choices: Who Decides?) Terry was not in a condition of bra***** dead and was not alive on the life support system; therefore, there is no justificati***** of pulling the plug as a choice to be exercised. She neither was under the ***** of total vegetative state and some elementary interaction took place. Terri ***** conscious ***** her surroundings, of o*****r persons, ***** ***** ***** own physical ailments. ***** was able to think, irrespective of the fact that she was ***** able ***** communicate ***** thoughts to others. She ***** active. She was making