Terri Schiavo is the new Elian
Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fatrockstarThat this situation has made the national news and has involved political figures makes me physically ill. This is a personal issue, and everyone who has stuck their fingers in where they don't belong (hello, brothers Bush) needs to back the hell off and look at what they're doing. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Terri Schiavo's husband is her legal guardian. Her parents are not. Her husband went through the right channels and settled this already. It is only through the heartbroken state of denial that her parents persist. I don't think they even realize what they're doing, that their grasping of straws to find those elusive doctors who support their beliefs that their daughter is still "in there" is only making things worse.
They are her parents, but they haven't talked to their daughter in FIFTEEN YEARS. They have NO idea what she'd want anymore. Even if she IS "in there," do they honestly believe that she's as hopeful as they are to find a cure? After fifteen years of being unable to do or enjoy anything, what does one contemplate? "Someday" or "Death?"
I feel for Mrs. Schiavo's parents. I really do. It must be horrible to watch a child deteriorate in such a way, so helpless and unreachable. As a parent it comes with the territory to fight, to hold on to hope. You aren't supposed to outlive your children, but sometimes it happens, and it's devastating. The evidence against their hope is overwhelming and their struggle valiant, but enough is enough.
I shouldn't be writing this diatribe, but I feel like I've been beaten over the head one too many times with this story. Why am I even aware of this? Why can't I watch television, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper without hearing of this? This is a personal matter that should never have been blown to such proportions.
Terri Schiavo's husband is her legal guardian. Her parents are not. Her husband went through the right channels and settled this already. It is only through the heartbroken state of denial that her parents persist. I don't think they even realize what they're doing, that their grasping of straws to find those elusive doctors who support their beliefs that their daughter is still "in there" is only making things worse.
They are her parents, but they haven't talked to their daughter in FIFTEEN YEARS. They have NO idea what she'd want anymore. Even if she IS "in there," do they honestly believe that she's as hopeful as they are to find a cure? After fifteen years of being unable to do or enjoy anything, what does one contemplate? "Someday" or "Death?"
I feel for Mrs. Schiavo's parents. I really do. It must be horrible to watch a child deteriorate in such a way, so helpless and unreachable. As a parent it comes with the territory to fight, to hold on to hope. You aren't supposed to outlive your children, but sometimes it happens, and it's devastating. The evidence against their hope is overwhelming and their struggle valiant, but enough is enough.
I shouldn't be writing this diatribe, but I feel like I've been beaten over the head one too many times with this story. Why am I even aware of this? Why can't I watch television, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper without hearing of this? This is a personal matter that should never have been blown to such proportions.
