The question one has to confront is this: why not step in and fight everyone's battles? This case is only important due to a set of parents illogical attachment to a belief that their daughter is somehow going to be "OK" again if she was ever to come out of her coma, which, according to her doctors, isn't going to happen. And really, the real issue here is how come the media is not discussing why she went in to this coma in the first place. Well, I'll tell you instead: she was another person who resorted to bulimia to make herself thinner. KRON reports...
"But keeping the weight off was a struggle for Terri Schiavo, and years later -- after her heart stopped briefly, cutting off oxygen to the brain -- a malpractice case brought against a doctor on her behalf would reveal she had been trying to survive on liquids and was making herself throw up after meals. The Schiavos' lawyer said her 1990 collapse was caused by a potassium imbalance brought on by an eating disorder." http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=2994651
Here's my rundown. Pretty girl makes stupid decision in how to lose weight (vs. eating correctly and exercise), then ties up our courts with a frivolous lawsuit, blames a doctor and society for her problems, is discovered to be causing her own problems, later dies because of them, is resuscitated and slips in to a coma, is given no chance of recovery, and is now tying up Congress, our president and the news media. Ironically, this is all over whether to stop feeding her, which is what brought this on in the first place. I am not being funny. This is a fairly good example of what is meant by the "consequences of one's actions."
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