Posted on 03/31/2005 7:21:49 AM PST by roostercashews
Terri Schiavo (search) died Thursday morning around 10 a.m. EST after her parents had plead with her husband Michael Schiavo to allow them to be at their brain-damaged daughter's bedside in her final hours, a spokesman for the family said.
Schiavo died heading into her 14th day without food and water amid what could be the final legal setback for her parents after the U.S. Supreme Court refused again to hear their plea to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Hmmm. yes I have saud removing the feeding tube is one thing ...BUT they expedited the death with medication...Scoplamine is an antihistamine ..which is used only to dry up secretions ..They used this scoplamine patch everyday on Terri and dressed her in such a fashion to make her sweat ! But the Scoplamine is the KEY ...That was medically induced to spped dehydration ...must be something that can be done about that ...
you agree with his criticism of our president?
Clintonh8r said:
It would be nice if people could restrain themselves from spewing their vitriol on this thread, and use it instead to mourn Terri's passing, to ask God's blessing on her and her family. But that's probably expecting too much from many here.
I think you have articulated our problem. Liberals are always saying "Let's be nice. Let's be politically correct (PC)." WHEN it is convenience.
Where was the nice, nice, nice sentiments, when it came to the attempts to rescue a woman from being killed by our government?
I agree with Michael Savage, that we must become a more "savage" nation -- and take more risks in order to rid our Republic of the pro-death movement. No more abortion, no more euthanasia, no more stem-cell research, no more harvesting of organs, no more cloning.
All of these activies de-value human life, in the long run. Evil is so crafty that some of these activities attract support because there are some good by-products -- but in the long run, all of this takes us to a place where man, not God, decides who lives and who dies.
There are a couple of hundred other threads where you can do just that.
to me, the "kind" has been ripped from "mankind" through the events of the last few weeks.
Mine has flown upside down for the last two weeks. I just took it down for good.
How's this for ebay ad:
Approximately 15 square feet of red, white and blue cloth, can be cut up for shop rags, or used to line a bird cage.
Bidding starts at $.01 No reserve.
you're right. this is the most upside down things i have ever heard of. none of us have control over our lives...unless we spell it out ahead of time..and even then who knows.
but worst of all those who love us and bore us into this world have less rights to help us it seems when there is a clear conflict of interest between husband and wife.
i don't know anything about this judge greer. i'm sure we'll be hearing more about him.
Oh, great, now our impotent President will speak on Terri's murder.
I'm very interested in what he has to say - NOT.
You're right, he made a llot of sense about one or two weeks ago. NOw he's sounding like a nut case...
I too am truly disgusted with this, like no other time I can ever remember.
I already have an advance directive for medical care, but I am adding this:
"I do NOT wish to be starved to death, under any circumstances, if I ever require tube feeding. I consider withholding food and water from a human being to be barbaric. I would not want to die that way."
"Jesse Jackson's on FOX news explaining how a national health care system would've stopped this. Socialist to the core......."
Ah - so that was his agenda.....
I surely hope that I am not risking the ire of the Freeper Nation, but I'm not going to let this particular thread die. BUMP.
Maybe it's safe now to say what I wanted to say much earlier in all of this but didn't because I didn't want to bring harm to this forum.
My duty as a father would have forced me to protect my daughter at all cost, therefore the custody issue would have been resolved early on in this fight. Michael would be pushing up daisies, I would be in jail (for a while. you know wussed those criminal courts can be about sentencing), and my wife (or in my case, my ex wife) would be caring for our daughter as she would be her new next of kin. End of story.
In the worst case that custody would change to the state and not my ex-wife, I highly doubt that the state ordering the death of someone in their care would be appreciated by the masses as much as Michael (or my daughter's equivilent) ordering her death. I could be wrong about that, but at least I would have done all I could.
I don't fault Mr.Schindler for his chosen course of action. Honestly, he had every reason to believe that this would not be allowed to happen in the USA, that someone, somewhere, would find a way to prevent this terrible murder.
But I'm more cynical than most. Personally I did not have the faith in our system that he had, though I really tried to give it the benefit of the doubt for a while. I guess my cynicism was well founded.
Admin: If this post isn't appropriate, please delete.
He, like me, cannot understand how this could be allowed to happen in this country. Utter frustration is not nutty under the circumstances.
In some ways yes. I never like Bush anyway, so I am biased, naturally. But I'm fair, I think, and I was really changing my view of GW when he appeared to be taking action. I'm back to my old position on him though. He's a politician, with an agenda, and anything else just gets lip service.
I agree; it's absolutely disgusting!
And,to continue the thought of blessed John Donne, "ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."
Liberty's bell is tolling for the inalienable right to life; and as none of us are now able to trust that this government will protect our God given right, it tolls for thee.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.