No subject

medical evaluation by a team of neutral experts and proper treatment to see
where she can go from her current state.  As for stopping her feeding - I
think it's morally unacceptable, and certainly a case being pushed for
eventual euthanasia legislation.

I see little hope for her rescue in this case, and I do think it's just one
more step in a very nasty direction.

There is a lot of hope for people with even the worst prognosis.  I think
Terri has been denied a lot of possibilities she should have been offered.

The following is an article about a friend of mine from school.  When he was
about 13 he developed an undiagnosed neurological condition that left him
unable to communicate or care for himself.  Today he has not only relearnt
to communicate (he doesn't remember much from before the illness' onset) but
he also helps teach others to do the same, and is involved in development of
such skills.

http://www.datapro.co.za/newsmanager/detail.asp?ID=11066&EmailID=535535&UserID=121&NLID=1771

This is one of his webpages:

http://www.symbolworld.org/Bits+bobs/aboutme/03/3_4/newjob/job1.htm

God bless,
Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com>
To: "Stephen Korsman" <skorsman at theotokos.co.za>
Cc: "Apologetics Group" <apologetics at gathman.org>; "Pro-Life"
<prolife at iafrica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:28 PM
Subject: [Apologetics] Terri is (was) not ill!


> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Stephen Korsman wrote:
>
> >       EARLY RELEASE
> >       To inform the current debate about decisions at the end of life,
these
> >       articles were published at www.nejm.org on March 22, 2005. They
will
> >       appear in the April 21 issue of the Journal.
>
> If there's one thing that makes me extremely angry, it's the constant
> comparing of Terri Schiavo with terminally ill patients.  Terri is(was)
> not terminally ill.  She is(was) perfectly healthy.  She is(was) not
> on life support.  She does not even meet the medical definition of
> Permanent Vegetative State.  But her husbands claim that she is
> in a PVS is repeated as fact like a mantra.
>
> -- 
>       Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
>     Business Management Systems Inc.  Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703
591-6154
> "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
> a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
>
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