Posted on 03/20/2005 9:03:19 AM PST by XR7
A note to the news media: Stop lying about Terri Schiavo!
I have a message for the media: Stop, already! Just stop it!!Stop saying that Terri Schiavo is "a brain-dead woman being kept alive solely on life support." She is not. She's a disabled Florida woman, who is now being murdered by medical personnel who have removed her feeding tube.
Aaarghh!!! Tell the truth! Stop saying this is about her right to die. Watch closely at the words coming out of this keyboard: T-E-L-L T-H-E T-R-U-T-H.
Terri Schiavo is not at all comatose. She is not at all on life support. She does not have a breathing tube or a respirator. She simply has been receiving her food and water — something everyone in existence needs to survive — through a tube.
What's more, though she is disabled, she probably could eat by herself — it's just too much trouble for hospital personnel to try to feed her by hand.
That's the key element here: Terri is inconvenient. She's especially inconvenient to her husband, Michael, for several reasons — not the least of which is that he's living with another woman and has children by her. Can anyone seriously trust he is operating in her best interest?
Tell the truth. The case of Terri Schiavo doesn't represent the right to die. It represents the right to live.
When murderers are sentenced to death, it comes as a result of a jury or judge passing sentence on a defendant who is sitting before them. One who has had the right to make a defense, to call witnesses and to testify for themselves, if they so choose.
But Terri Schiavo, this woman who has been incapacitated for more than a decade, has never had the right to do any of that. What's more, Judge George W. Greer, the Florida judge who seems bent on ending her life — who has more than once ordered her food and water removed — has never even seen Terri Schiavo in person.
Never seen her in person! It is inconceivable that a judge would pass judgment on a felon without ever having seen the defendant.
But then, that's the point, isn't it? If I am to believe the mainstream media — either this is about Terri's "right to die" or she, in some sense, deserves to die. After all, she's got no "quality of life," right?
Wrong. Terri is not a criminal defendant. She committed no crime. She is innocent. Her sole "crime" — and I say that with all the irony I can muster — is that she is disabled.
If anything, this case is about the rights of the disabled.
Make no mistake, "quality of life" and comfort are not the prime considerations for living, any more than parenting is about spending "quality time" with kids. Forget quality time. If you don't spend "quantity time" with children, that's when they appear to suffer, if we are to believe the research. And if a disabled person is going to be killed because he or she is "inconvenient," let's stop talking about his or her quality of life. The quality of life while being starved and dehydrated to death is nonexistent.
Let's talk about the death process for Terri if her feeding tube is not reinserted. After three or four days, she will have lost weight and will have begun to lose normal body secretions. Her mouth will begin to look dry and her eyes will appear sunken. She will look thinner because her body tissues will have lost fluid. Her heart rate will gradually go up, and her blood pressure will gradually go down.
Five to 10 days from now, her alertness will decrease markedly. Breathing will become irregular with periods of very fast and then very slow breathing.
From day 10 until death — first coma, then kidney function will decline and toxins will begin accumulating in her body. Those toxins will cause her respiratory muscles to fail. Then multiple organ systems will begin to fail from lack of nutrition.
Then, and only then, she will die.
Sure. You're right, mainstream media. That's exactly what Terri has a "right" to. That's exactly what she would have wanted.
Excuse me while I vomit.
LINK to article: http://family.org/cforum/fnif/commentary/a0035918.cfm
Linking this up to here....
THE 'VAST LIFE-WING CONSPIRACY' AGAINST MICHAEL SCHIAVO [FR Link page]
[Several FReepers have helped to make it a great research page. ]
FReegards....
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Per TERRI's own nurses:
TERRI can eat food thru her mouth.
MICHAEL knows this and has been preventing food from entering her mouth for years.
MICHAEL is quoted by TERRI's nurses as asking them:
"When is she going to die?"
"Has she died yet?"
"WHEN IS THAT BITCH GONNA DIE?"
See:
Nurse: TERRI Can Eat Normally
http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/20/102601.shtml
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Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, in sadness and in joy, to cherish and continually bestow upon her your heart’s deepest devotion, forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her as long as you both shall live?
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Per TERRI's own nurses:
TERRI can eat food thru her mouth.
MICHAEL knows this and has been preventing food from entering her mouth for years.
MICHAEL is quoted by TERRI's own nurses as asking them:
"When is she going to die?"
"Has she died yet?"
"WHEN IS THAT BITCH GONNA DIE?"
See:
Nurse: TERRI Can Eat Normally
http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/20/102601.shtml
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Here's what keeps me going back and forth on this case. How many Freepers would want to sustained in Terry' condition by well-meaning family members? I wouldn't my wife wouldn't. My parents wouldn't. Many on the "life" side try to make it sound like she is merely severely retarded, but she is beyond that. Her family is seeing what they want to see.
Michael may be a guy who just gave up hope, or he may be an evil jerk, but that doesn't change the fact that Terry's cerebral cortex is filled with spinal fluid.
Welcome to Free Republic. Try out dying yourself and let us know if you still recommend it for others.
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The Issue here is:
TERRI can breath unassisted.
TERRI can eat food thru her mouth, food that MICHAEL has been stopping her from having for years.
TERRI can SPEAK.
TERRI is NOT the Living Dead.
TERRI is capable of being re-hab'ed. TERRI rehabilitation that MICHAEL has been preventing for years as he continues to make babies with his lover.
The U.S. Constiution guarantee's each person the Right to LIFE, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Which of these 3 Constitutionally guaranteed Rights has MICHAEL been properly looking after for his wife TERRI..?
Thought so.
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Uh, you might, just might, want to read the bone scan that shows Terri was severely abused prior to her collapse. After you read that scan and opine to us in your compassionate death-cultist ways, then we'll gladly starve you to death after someone, if someone, decides to bang you around doing the kind of damage to you that was done to Terri. You make me want to vomit. mjs13, is that you, Robert Wexler?
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO. 92-939-15 EXCERPT OF JURY TRIAL - TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL RICHARD SCHIAVO
( November 5, 1992)
page 26
Q. Why did you want to learn to be a nurse?
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A. Because I enjoy it and I want to learn more how
to take care of Terry.
Q. You're a young man. Your life is ahead of you.
Your future is beyond you. Up the road, when you look up
the road, what do you see for yourself?
A. I see myself hopefully finishing school and taking
care of my wife.
Q. Where do you want to take care of your wife?
A. I want to bring my wife home.
Q. If you had the resources available to you, if you
had the equipment and the people, would you do that?
A. Yes, I would, in a heartbeat.
Q. How do you feel about being married to Terry now?
A. I feel wonderful. She's my life and I wouldn't
trade her for the world. I believe in my -- I believe in my
wedding vows.
Q. What do you mean? You want to take a minute?
A. Yeah.
MR. WOODWORTH: If the Court would let us take a
minute.
Q. (BY MR. WOODWORTH:) You okay?
A. Yeah. I'm sorry.
Q. Have -- you said you believe in your wedding vows,
what do you mean by that?
A. I believe in the vows that I took with my wife,
page 28
through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer. I
married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the
rest of my life with her. I'm going to do that.
http://journals.aol.com/justice1949/JUSTICEFORTERRISCHIAVO/entries/323
So the seventeen sworn affidavits from neurologists who asseret that Terri can benefit from rehab therapy which her 'loving hubby' has chosen to withhold since the court awarded million plus for same, all those physicians are wrong because they don't fit your arbitrarily chosen belief of Terri's 'condition'?
They can re-hab her body, not her mind. Is there a single person on this site who has a living will stating they want to be maintained in a state where they have no cognitive ability?
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