Terri Schiavo Life or Death :: essays research papers

Terri Schiavo Life or DeathTerri 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 heavy document of what she would have wanted if she became brain damage and couldnt function on her own but her husband, Michael Schiavo, says that after 15 years of being on a provide 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 resolving is no The reason for that is because I am a Christian and I do not believe in terminating someones life. Its my teaching that as long as a psyches 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 recou nting on March 21 was unconstitutional. It was immediately signed by President Bush in hopes that it would help Terris parents. He says that it was unconstitutional and violated the primary(prenominal) 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 consultation 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 dinero 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 wifes end-of-life wishes were. Also former care-givers of Terri stated that Mr. Schiavo was abusive to the home nursi ng 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.