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...Michael Schiavo called for her death long before any doctor suggested she could be in a PVS, yet her parents have demonstrated that they only want a safe home and rehabilitation therapy for their daughter. Terri Schiavo stands to benefit from therapy that would help her to relearn to swallow and to speak, but thanks to the efforts of her husband, she does not have access to this therapy. If she had access to this therapy, perhaps she would be swallowing and speaking today on her own. Why Michael Schiavo will not relinquish his rights as Terri Schiavo?...
...William Hammesfahr, have suggested that she is definitely not. Even a doctor appointed by Michael Schiavo to investigate his wife’s health has admitted his surprise at her awareness level. She responds to stimuli and can breathe on her own, pump her own blood, and even swallow. Perhaps her PVS diagnosis on the part of other doctors has been the consequence of a lack of any better condition of which to describe her. Either way, there are serious doubts as to whether Terri Schiavo is truly in a PVS, and pulling the plug...
...writers are inclined to think creatively about love and identity, maybe it's because they didn't have the option of accepting the standard assumptions. Growing up gay, says Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, "you have a pretty deeply ingrained sense of being an outsider. You don't swallow the mythology of pop culture hook, line and sinker because you know it's not true, for you, anyway...
...Much, Peso Little In the largest debt restructuring of modern times, Argentina persuaded the bulk of 500,000 creditors to swallow losses of up to 70% on the $102.6 billion they were owed when Argentina defaulted on its payments...
...subject matter is by no means easy to swallow. And it is a credit to the production cast that they managed to perform the sobering “Memory of Her Face” and the comedic “My Angry Vagina” back-to-back without seeming downright sacrilegious...