terri shiavo blog post

terri shiavo was in a famous case where she collapsed of s heart attack in her home on Febuary 25th 1990. She suffered massive brain damage due to lack of oxygen and she fell into a coma. After 2 and a half monthes in her coma she was diagnosed with vegetative state. Over the course of a few yearsdoctor tried to bring her back into the state of awareness through physical therapy, speech, and other experimental therapies. In 1998 terris husband petitioned the sixth circuit court of flordia to remove the feeding tube, he was opposed by terris parents, Robert and Mary Schindler who argued that she was still concious. The court determined that she would not want to be kept alive and removed her feeding tube on April 21st 2001 only to reinsert it a few days later, but the tube was finslly removed in 2005 and terri shiavo died on march 31st 2005. Now the ethical question is do you believe that the desision made on terri shiavo was justified? Obviously it could be yes or no. But i believe that it is no the desicion was not justified. It wasnt becsause I believe that the desicion was terris and terris alone. Since she didnt make out any files about what to do while in this vegetative state they should have just tried and help her recover. Who are her husband and family, why would they get to make that desision on terris life i think that the only person qualified to make that desicion was terri and since she was able to they should have just left her as she was. I'm choosing to answer whether Terri shiavo is a person? And is she the she person? She is a person. The reason she is a person is because she has a brain DNA a heart. All of which are characteristics of a person. But I don't believe she is the same person. If she woke up from the coma she wouldn't have been the same person. But the main reason she isn't the same person is because she can't interact with others she has to eat through a tube and other people are making her desicions. The only way for her to be the same person would be for this whole experience not to have happened. Sources http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_cases