Terri Schiavo, I'm on Her Side

National Ledger ^ | Mar 12, 2005 | JB Williams

[dandelion]

Thank you for posting this, nick. Do you ever sleep? ;)

[nickcarraway]

Good question!

[tessalu]

If this cruelty is allowed to happy to Terri, it will set a precedent, and soon they will trying to kill us and claim justification. This should never be allowed to happen the first time.

[Future Useless Eater]

THE TERRI SCHIAVO INFORMATION PAGE

[Future Useless Eater]

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Electrical stimulation therapy restores swallowing ability. So why KILL her? Get her therapy Get her OFF 'the tube' Send her home with the Schindlers Let Michael marry his fiance.

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Judge Greer cited "news sources" that Sara Scantlin could BLINK her eyes on command "so she was not in PVS".

Father Pavone witnessed Terri's condition just one month ago [jump ahead to the 17 min mark] and he said:

• She was very responsive.
• She prayed with him, closed her eyes during the prayer, and opened them back up when done.
• Mister Schindler kissed her and she kissed him back!

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Documented Terri-vocabulary references
Words	Witness
"mommy" "momma" "help me"	nurse - Heidi Law, certified nurse assistant
"pai[n]"     (meaning 'pain'                 when she was in discomfort) 'Haaaiiiii'   (meaning Hi,                 in response to 'Hi Terri') 'mommy' 'help me'	Nurse - Carla Sauer Iyer, R.N. "'Help me' was, in fact, one of her most frequent utterances. I heard her say it hundreds of times."
"stop"   (in response to one medical                 procedure being done on her)	Terri's MediPlex records
"ugh-hugh" (meaning yes) "ugh-ugh" (meaning no) "yea" "No"	family members, and paralegal Tom Brodersen* 'yea' was a word she learned to speak in 2001.     *
After Judge Greer heard of Tom Brodersen secretly helping Terri learn to speak again, Greer removed Brodersen from the "approved visitor's list" permanently!

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[nmh]

This is the BEST of have seen on Terri. It gets to the heart of the matter. Terri is of no use to her husband and he wants to murder her through starvation. Her husband has no regard for God; only himself. It seems everyone wants to play god. He refuses to let God determine her fate. Her husband is a cold hearted monster. It IS her husband that should be on trial; not Terri.

[Future Useless Eater]

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[GeekDejure]

Hail Terri...

Child of God...

We pray those judicial sinners...

Do not cause the hour of thy death...

Amen !!!

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[Future Useless Eater]

>>Terri’s husband no longer has any use for Terri.
She is no longer the young vibrant carefree model
he once pledged his life to. He has found another
to fill that void in his life and Terri is standing in his way
of personal happiness, so in his mind, it is time for her to die.

Electrical stimulation therapy restores swallowing ability. So why KILL her? Get her therapy Get her OFF 'the tube' Send her home with the Schindlers Let Michael marry his fiance.

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[pickyourpoison]

bttt

[Tax-chick]

My father has Alzheimer’s and while he remains able to feed himself today, there well may come a day when he is not able to anymore. If and when that day comes, I will happily help him eat… When he no longer knows my name or my face, I will remind him daily. When he is no longer able to manage even restroom visits, I will gladly manage them for him, as he managed mine before I learned to manage them myself…

BTTT>

[eccentric]

Who would have thought that food would be considered 'artificial life support'? It is not too absurd to consider the artificial life supports of environmental controls. France had that problem one summer when thousands died of heat. Every winter we hear of people freezing to death in their apartments, obviously too disabled to handle the environment on their own, their 'artificial environmental life support' was discontinued.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!

[Petronski]

Every winter we hear of people freezing to death in their apartments, obviously too disabled to handle the environment on their own, their 'artificial environmental life support' was discontinued.

Someday soon, a tyrant like Greer will make a determination that the quality of life of those people is too low, and so they must be liquidated.

[Republic]

Thank you nick. What a beautiful piece of writing.

Thank you for posting an article that sweeps the struggle aside and bottom lines the tragic truth of this matter.

This is purely and simply, above all else, denying food and water in order to kill a very loved human being. It is MURDER by judicial decree.

I wonder, when a governor signs a stay in the last minutes before the execution of a felon, because perhaps new information has come forward or it is noticed that a past , relevant action was not thoroughly vetted within the courts, is this not the executive branch using a necessary power to override the court decision or death sentence?

And if it is, then why cannot Terri, who is a complete innocent and totally unable to speak for herself, enjoy the same benefit, especially and most urgently since HER DEATH SENTENCE is based 100% upon HEARSAY.

[Republic]

What is really disturbing about food and water, intubated into someones tummy as being artificial life support, is that FELOS, michael schiavo's attorney, actually worked to CHANGE FLORIDA STATE LAW to INCLUDE food and water as artificial means of keeping someone alive when they cannot feed themselves.

He, FELOS, was already acquainted with Michael at the time he worked to successfully redefine food and water....so he GOT THE LAW CHANGED so that Terri would fit the parameters of artificially being kept alive...SO THAT THEY COULD KILL HER.

And now...........this freak of a human being wails that the legislature is INTERFERING by possibly changing the law in favor of people like Terri....guess FELOS only wants it HIS WAY.

[tutstar]

Tears...

[Dante3]

There are psychopaths, such as serial killers, who truly enjoy the suffering of others and their power to kill them.

[Theodore R.]

Did you know that George W. Greer calls himself "a conservative Republican" and enjoys the backing of the Pinellas and Pasco county Republican organizations? We surely need a two-party system. This part of FL is really a one-party enclave though most wear an "R" label.