Parents Of Terri Schiavo example essay topic

Terri Schiavo Life or Death Terri Schiavo is a forty year old women who had a severe heart attack 15 years ago which resulted in brain damage. She had no living will so there is no legal document of what she would have wanted if she became brain damage and couldn't function on her own but her husband, Michael Schiavo, says that after 15 years of being on a feeding tube she would have wanted to die. The question is should he have the right to remove the feeding tube? Anybody who knows me will know that my answer is no! The reason for that is because I am a Christian and I do not believe in terminating someone's life. It's my belief that as long as a persons heart is beating he or she stills has life in them.

In the New York Times Abby Goodnough and Maria Newman reports that on March 30 that the parents of Terri Schiavo latest appeal was turn down. It stated that one of the judges Stanley F. Birch, wrote that it was in his opinion the special law that was hastily passed by Congress on March 21 was unconstitutional. It was immediately signed by President Bush in hopes that it would help Terri's parents. He says that it was unconstitutional and violated the principal of separation of powers. I understand under the federal law if there is no living will to determine who is to have custody of a person in this situation, automatically the decision making fall to a spouse or next in Kin. But in this situation where Mr. Schiavo never mention that Terri wanted to be taken off of the feeding tube until 1998, I can see why the law would be completely fair.

In the Chicago Tribune it stated that some supporters of the Schindlers has doubts of Mr. Schiavo ethics and his fitness for guardianship of Terri. They bought forward affidavits from his former girlfriends saying that they swore he confided in them stating he had no idea what his wife's end-of-life wishes were. Also former care-givers of Terri stated that Mr. Schiavo was abusive to the home nursing staff and expressed the wish that Terri was dead. I feel this evidence is enough to put the feeding tube back in. To have so many people contest want Mr. Schiavo was saying and to just have the courts ignore it over and over again, I feel is unconstitutional. CNN also reports that the relationship between the Schindlers and Mr. Schiavo exploded when Michael received a $1 million settlement in 1992 to care for his wife for the rest of her natural life.

The Schindlers say that after their son-in-law received the money his personality changed and that he stopped all rehabilitation efforts. The Schindlers also questioned why Michael waited until 1998 to recall that his wife had said she wouldn't want a feeding tube. The change in his personality should also be a reason for the case to be trailed again. In conclusion I believe that with all the cloudiness regarding what Terre Schiavo would have wanted in this situation; I feel she should have her feeding tube reinstated.

I can't understand how in America, they " re letting this happen. I feel that the Judges and Politicians where cowards when in came to this case. I wish they could put them selves in the parent's shoes. To watch the child you raised and love, die because she didn't have food or water. To me, to have someone die by starvation and dehydration is not only savagely cruel it's inhuman. I don't believe this is how someone dies in dignity, I think it's dying in suffering.

I truly, completely believe that a murder is taken place in Florida and I find the whole situation barbaric.