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A man has been arrested and charged with offering a $250,000 reward for killing Michael Schiavo. Richard Alan Meywes was arrested in Fairview, North Carolina by the FBI and the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office. On March 23, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office forwarded an email to the FBI in Tampa which purportedly offered a $250,000 bounty on "the head of Michael Schiavo." The email placed an additional $50,000 bounty for the elimination of a judge who recently denied a request to intervene in the Schiavo case.

On Fox News Channel, Martha McCallum just announced that Florida governor Jeb Bush will make a statement on the Terri Schiavo case at 3 PM EST.

THIS BRAIN IS NOT THAT BAD Thanks to reader "primer" I've been directed to the University of Miami Ethics program website where they posted this image from a CT scan of Terri Schiavo's brain in 1996. The sentence attached to the link for this scan on the site says: CT scan of Ms. Schiavo's brain, showing extensive cortical regions filled with spinal fluid. If you go to this link you can see the scan in a larger reproduction. A COURT OF MEDICAL LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGH IN ON TERRI'S CT. The Second District's first opinion in this case explained: Since 1990, Theresa...

If the tragic case of Terri Schiavo shows nothing else, it shows how easily "the right to die" can become the right to kill. It is hard to believe that anyone, regardless of their position on euthanasia, would have chosen the agony of starvation and dehydration as the way to end someone's life. A New York Times headline on March 20th tried to assure us: "Experts Say Ending Feeding Can Lead to a Gentle Death" but you can find experts to say anything. In a December 2, 2002 story in the same New York Times, people starving in India were...

Terri Schiavo’s situation has people lined up in opposing factions. They’re separated by contradictory medical opinions, disputed facts, divergent opinions on what constitutes death with dignity and a range of views on the legitimacy of government’s interest in her continued existence. Perhaps the only point of agreement is that Terri’s plight is especially heartrending. Terri’s husband, who remains her legal guardian, claims that removing her feeding tube will be a painless and probably most natural way to die. But who knows that with certainty? Ten years ago, a woman was paralyzed by a stroke and unable to communicate. She found...

<p>Tonight it is, March 23, 2005, over five days since Theresa Marie Schiavo commenced her ordeal of purposeful and legally sanctioned dehydration and starvation. We await a decision from the three judge panel from Eleventh Judicial Circuit as to her fate, as her family struggles with seeing Terri's physical health deteriorate.</p>

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it is worth remembering that the excruciating slowness of the execution here, the incremental-ness of death, is designed by its champions to inure us to it. After the first hour, the second passes with far less fanfare, and the third less still. I've been following this closely, and I needed to remind myself today how many hours Terri Schiavo has actually been without sustenance by counting the days since Friday afternoon and multiplying by 24. How much more easily the time passes, and the world around us changes, for those following only fleetingly, or not at all. Why should we...

Lawyer: Schiavo Ruling Expected Soon By JILL BARTON Tuesday, March 22, 2005 TAMPA, Fla. - Warning that Terri Schiavo was "fading quickly" and might die at any moment, her parents begged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted. The appeals court didn't indicate when it might rule, but George Felos, the attorney for Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, told the Associated Press that he expected a decision before daybreak Wednesday. An attorney for parents Bob and Mary Schindler said in a court filing that the 41-year-old woman might die before they could get a...

First segments.... (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In a medical case as high profile as Terri Schiavo, you would think the medical experts would have all the answers. But just by listening to them and reviewing statements they gave to the court, it's easy to see why a final answer is so complicated. DR. WILLIAM HAMMESFAHR, NEUROLOGIST: I spent about 10 hours across about three months and the woman is very aware of her surroundings. She's very aware. She's alert. She's not in a coma. She's not in PVS. ... DR. RONALD CRANFORD, NEUROLOGIST: A...

TAMPA, Fla. - Warning that Terri Schiavo is "fading quickly," her parents begged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted while they pursue claims that her rights are being violated. advertisement David Gibbs III, attorney for parents Bob and Mary Schindler, told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta that their 41-year-old daughter might die before they get a chance to fully argue their case. The appeal came after a federal judge in Tampa rejected the parents' emergency request earlier Tuesday. "Where, as here, death is imminent, it is hard to...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Port St. Lucie woman who has a daughter on life support said Sunday she sympathizes with Terri Schiavo's parents. Mary Jane Gott's daughter Lisa had a heart attack at 38 and has been in a vegetative state ever since. Lisa Gott is fitted with a feeding tube and respirator and is being cared for in a Staten Island, N.Y., nursing home. Her mother said she could never take her daughter off life support. "When God is ready to put his arms around her and take her, she'll go, and not until then," she said....

Appeals are under way after a judge refused early Tuesday to reinstall a feeding tube, in a case with broad legal implications.WASHINGTON – Boiled down to its essence, the ongoing legal dispute over a severely brain-damaged Florida woman might well have been filed in court under the label Theresa Marie Schiavo v. Theresa Marie Schiavo. Both sides in the life-or-death drama unfolding in a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice and federal courtrooms are claiming to be acting in what they believe to be Terri Schiavo's best interests. Yet only one of those parties can be right. The other, while acting with...

"MICHAEL SCHIAVO, Terri Schiavo's husband, finally went on national television last night to tell the world his side of the story. Appearing on "Larry King Live," he strived mightily to play the loving husband. Until more than half way through the interview, when King got around to tentatively asking Schiavo whether or not it is true that he has a girlfriend. (King, who must have known the answer, somehow failed to mention that Schiavo has already sired two children with this woman, who he calls his fiancé.)"...

Dear Terry Schiavo, I am saying a Hail Mary for you now and I know that there are many others who are praying for you.May God hold you in His Hand,The Blessed Mother, Mary come to your assistance and may the Son of God ,Jesus Christ,come through your door to heal you completely !! You cannot speak yet hundreds of hearts around the globe, understand you. You call to them and with the voice of a silent angel. I know that those who read this ,too,will send you a message afterwards,you are not alone,your holy angel stands next to you...

Terri Brother ..................Terri early on in a hospice .................. Michael has let his wife deteriate!Compare the early Hospice Photo At this time Terri was able to chew and swallow and was learning to use the pararall bars to walk again...as soon as the malpactice law suit was won Michael Schiavo remember his wife wanted to die...so he would move her from one location to another every time they thought she was ready to start rehab again! Lets try to have the same page to fight the MISLEADING OUT THERE!

How much longer are we going to keep "hoping" a judge does the right thing in a timely manner? Are we waiting through the night? Or we waiting through tomorrow? Are we waiting, waiting, waiting while Terri dehydrates to death? The time has come to call, email and fax encouragement to President Bush to write an executive order protecting Terri immediately and getting her into a hospital. In a hospice they cannot adequately take care of her. The judge can take his time making decisions without it being on Terri's watch. BEGIN the CALLS!! Jam the switchboards!! Pass this to...

Schiavo: 'Come down, President Bush' By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, Times Staff Writer Published March 20, 2005 PINELLAS PARK - Angered by the latest political developments in Washington, Michael Schiavo said Saturday that it isn't just the Florida governor who should visit his wife to learn about the case. Jeb Bush's brother, President Bush, should visit Terri Schiavo, too, he said. "Come down, President Bush," Schiavo said in a telephone interview. "Come talk to me. Meet my wife. Talk to my wife and see if you get an answer. Ask her to lift her arm to shake your hand. She won't...

Just heard on Fox....so sad.

It appears that Terri Schiavo is going to be starved and dehydrated. I don't see how it going to be stopped short of a kidnapping to save her life. If we are to believe sworn affidavits, Michael Schiavo denied his beloved wife rehab, speech, and occupational therapy. Terri actually was able to drink from a baby bottle and ate pudding and jello. He threatened to fire a nurse if she got nourishment from anything but the feeding tube? Why just the feeding tube? Because he could have that pulled and starve her to death. He had no interest in seeing...