Abu Ghraib in the Hospital

What is going on here with Terri Schiavo is plain torture. As it is not possible to do such a thing on a dead body, the makers of the laws (perpetrators of the greatest crimes and perpetual traitors to their laws), the executioners [sic] of the executive, the gods, not in white, of the courts, don't just shoot her in the head killing her right away, but prefer to let her slowly wither away under painful inner contortions to get their perverse pleasure of being powerful over others. And one can be powerful only over living people. The dead usually give a damn.

This has all the signs of Abu Ghraib: humiliation and physical destroying.

The gods in white, with their ignorant and conflicting theories on the case and their total ignorance of other existing treatments, should at least apply a minimum of decency and good sense.

As I read in an Associated Press report about the feeding tube removal (the third one so far, and previously followed by a reinsertion), the tube "is removed in a simple surgical procedure". They are not talking about an operation. This sounds to me like saying pacification (or democratization) instead of war. The feeding liquid is sent through the tube with a syringe. There is a drawing on the page! As if they could not simply stop using that syringe to put something down that tube, no, the surgeon gods in white, hooked as they are on their technical sorcery and proud like a Las Vegas magician, but coarse like an auto mechanic who didn't have to swear the Hippocratic oath, prefer to take that whole plastic garbage out and later (maybe) put it in again...

Without anesthetics, I presume? And if with, who has ever heard of better means to work in the direction of health improvement?... Imposing on a weak body additional requirements to heal unnecessary wounds, is mindless. Especially considering that this human body has been fed for 15 long years with what those "Bocuses" had on their five star liquid menus. I have not seen the leather-bound printed menu of that restaurant, but I can read it on Terri's face, and the à la carte is as ample as in a prison.

In view of the hopeful case that the tube will after all be reinserted, how can anyone in his right mind (but the Florida nutcases seem to be very numerous, like they are all over the place of that fucked-up system America and the rest of the world [though there are a few places with a bit more grip on these things]) be so irresponsible as to irreversably damage that body by withholding water?! Withholding food is not the big problem. It can be even beneficial, especially considering the average fare of the majority of hospitals. Often or sometimes sufficiently good for those patients who do not really need to be there except for their foolishness and the sake of the hospital's revenue, but almost universally well below the quality level needed by those who really need help to recover and escape the clutch of the Grim Reaper. I bet that if during those 15 years Terri had received, in addition to that basic food concocted by the chefs of that diner "At the Tavern of Science", some natural power food according to principles espoused and perfected by people like Ann Wigmore, David Wolfe or Franz Konz (to just name a few at random), parts of her brain would have recovered or have been strengthened and one would see it in her face. As I have decades of studies and experience (and also successes, done the job professionally for years) behind me regarding nutrition and health, I can tell you that Terri's face now looks like many I have seen of people who were not at all in Terri's situation, but obviously nourished wrongly. Telling more about this would require another column, a rather long essay, if not a book.

Anyone ever heard of Civil Disobedience? No? How strange, I thought you over there (I am here in Germany and hail from Luxembourg) read Thoreau in high school. But this author is probably on the curriculum of state schools to instill a disgust of it. Compulsory reading is not like freely chosen reading.

Finally, I am glad to notice that after the flood of commentary coming from all sides, and largely from libertarian columnists and bloggers, that used this case to toss and turn with great intelligence all kind of philosophical and political issues, especially the aspect of federalism versus the sovereignty of the federal states, we start to get now more common sense articles, as loving and simple as a glass of water.It is after all an individual case and a case for individualism.

Terri's last chance

Humanity lost in Schiavo media frenzy

A "Painless" Death?

Cruel, unusual . . . Read this!

As she lay dying This essay is a great monument to civilization! Read it even if you are not particularly interested in this case. A mother speaks and it becomes as basic and universal as and better than the Ten Commandments.

If you google for schiavo glass water you will find a wealth of recent very humane opinion about this emblematic glass of water.

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