# Let the poor woman die already! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 17, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029 "2005-03-17T19:11:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 54
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1061 "2005-03-29T19:35:06Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > I saw a protester with a sign comparing him to OJ Simpson and Robert Blake. Sorry. Not good enough. It’s Scott Peterson or nothing! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1062 "2005-03-29T19:39:56Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Sorry. Not good enough. It’s Scott Peterson or nothing! Teri is pregnant? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1063 "2005-03-29T19:40:54Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Ten bucks says the Schindlers event will have monkeys. The way they’ve been acting since this went national, I’d say any service they attend themselves will already have monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1064 "2005-03-29T19:42:00Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Teri is pregnant? :eek: I’m sure Bob Schindler is working on it. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1065 "2005-03-29T19:54:34Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Ten bucks says the Schindlers event will have monkeys. And they’ll hold a news conference to say that’s what Terri would have wanted. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1066 "2005-03-29T20:02:23Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Teri is pregnant? :eek: HaaaaHaaaaaHahahaha !! That’s the first real laugh I’ve had here other than those of disbelief. Thanks. 😃 An aside to MS… we’ll be looking for a Governor of the State of Florida pretty soon. Any plans? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1067 "2005-03-29T20:02:54Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Ten bucks says the Schindlers event will have monkeys. I suspect Randall Terry will, in fact, attend. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1068 "2005-03-29T20:06:20Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > \ > Ten bucks says the Schindlers event will have monkeys. From what I’ve seen, they always have had. Apologies to monkeys ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1069 "2005-03-29T20:06:55Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I suspect Randall Terry will, in fact, attend. For some reason, I read that as “Tony Randall will, in fact attend,” and thought, Omigod, they’re actually _raising the dead!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1070 "2005-03-29T20:07:27Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Teri is pregnant? This raises an interesting hypothetical: If a protestor or other Terri “supporter” managed to get her pregnant, would they then have a legitimate “right to life” case to keep her on the feeding tube to save the fetus? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1071 "2005-03-29T20:19:07Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > For some reason, I read that as “Tony Randall will, in fact attend,” and thought, Omigod, they’re actually _raising the dead!!_ Maybe he will. Have John Edward ask him. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1072 "2005-03-29T20:24:58Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Teri is pregnant? :eek: The sad thing is, the whole reason Terri was being treated by doctors at the time of her heart attack is because she and Michael were trying to get pregnant. She had fertility doctors who were supposed to be closely monitoring her so she could conceive, yet managed to miss her bulimia (which is why Michael was able to prevail against them in his malpractice suit). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1073 "2005-03-29T20:27:49Z")
That wasn’t really a joke. There has been a case or two of long-term comatose women in institutions becoming pregnant. A hospital worker in my state was convicted of rape a year or two ago based on the DNA evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1074 "2005-03-29T20:28:20Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > And they’ll hold a news conference to say that’s what Terri would have wanted. :smack: Hey, who wouldn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1075 "2005-03-29T20:49:37Z")
“AAAAAHHHHHWAAAAAAAAA” monkeys at my funeral. Clear as day. Can’t you guys “feel it” in those recordings. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1076 "2005-03-29T20:57:48Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > “AAAAAHHHHHWAAAAAAAAA” monkeys at my funeral. Clear as day. Can’t you guys “feel it” in those recordings. aaaaaaahhhhhhwaaaaaa nt to thank you for that post. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1077 "2005-03-29T21:19:54Z")
Well, I’m extraordinarily sensative to that sort of thing. My cat and I have long philosophical discussions, I can communicate with the dead and put you in contact with your past lives. Tea leaves tell the future and my plants speak to me. So communicating with this mentally disabled woman is fairly easy for a person of my talents. I’m surprised the rest of you can’t tell that recording is actually Terri rebuting Stephan Hawking’s theories on astrophysics. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1078 "2005-03-29T22:05:02Z")
Aaaaaah WAAAAAA [to get in bed with spammers!](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/politics/29donate.html?ei=5088&en=eff131665ae17165&ex=1269752400&partner=rssnyt&pagewanted=print&position=) > [@NY Times](#): > > The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups. I like [this pitch](http://www.responseunlimited.com/about.html) from their website: > [@Response Unlimted](#): > > We believe God has given us the gift and ability to help your direct marketing program succeed! That’d be some God, eh? Can you imagine the tablets that Moses would have returned from Mount Sinai with?[ol][_]Thou Shalt Ear.n F.REE sheke1s in your SPARE TIME[_]Your ROD and St.aff shall make vergins SCREAM IN TERROR!!! [_]Be a creddited RABBI. Get respect![_]Want a CUBIT-LONG manhood? This balm realy workz!![_]Important!!! about your accc0unt at the m0ney chan6ers.[_]Loney tempel prost!tvtes want to talk to YOU![_]Urgent appeal! Help me tranfser 15,000 slaves out of Egypt, and keep 5,000 for your trouble![_]|nvest in ZION today. Don’t miss this prime rea1 es+a+e 0pportvnity or you’ll regret it for etern!+y!!![_]Miracle b0lus cvres baldness instant|y[_]Want a F.re.e. MULE?!![/ol] ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1079 "2005-03-29T22:19:36Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Sorry. Not good enough. It’s Scott Peterson or nothing! Your demand is [my command.](http://www.earnedmedia.org/dcl0320.htm): > [@](#): > > “As Terri Schiavo starves to death, it is time to alert more lawmakers to the truth: the wrong person is being ‘punished’ for Terri Schiavo’s current state,” says Carole Lieberman, M.D. a Board Certified Psychiatrist on the Clinical Faculty of UCLA. Having interviewed Terri’s father on her radio show (“Dr. Carole’s Couch” on [voiceamerica.com](http://voiceamerica.com)), Dr. Lieberman uncovered the fact that Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, fits the profile of a wife-abuser – the same profile that fit O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson. At Terri’s father’s request, Dr. Lieberman put her opinion in writing (see below) so that the family could provide it to their attorneys, Governor Jeb Bush and Florida DCFS – who subsequently have begun investigating the possibility (supported by medical records and witnesses) that Michael Schiavo may well be the one responsible for the collapse that Terri suffered 15 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029/1080 "2005-03-29T22:34:48Z")
Just when you thought this thing was winding down, in comes the pope. No, not to schill for one side or the other. [To get a quote on used feeding tubes.](http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5318705.html) This could get just as messy, if not moreso. At least the future of Catholicism doesn’t rest on the fate of Terri. Oy vey. Or should I say AAAAHH WAAAAH! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-poor-woman-die-already/295029.md?page=55)