There's somebody “in here”…but is there anybody “out there”?

Pamela Hennessy.com/blog ^ | Feb 17, 2005 | Pamela Hennessy

[Alamo-Girl]

I join with all the others here in prayer for Teri and her loved ones!

[Ohioan from Florida]

Yes, one of the reasons that there is a statute of limitations for many crimes is that the memories of the people involved can get clouded over the years, thus they are not always very credible. It should be no difference here, but Greer has treated these statements by Michael and his family as facts. I wish a jury had been allowed to decide whether or not those were factual statements.

[bjs1779]

Yes, one of the reasons that there is a statute of limitations for many crimes is that the memories of the people involved can get clouded over the years, thus they are not always very credible.

I like that. A statute of limitations should of applied to Michael's "za zam, I just remembered she didn't want to live like this," 7 or 8 years after the 'accident' alone.

[supercat]

I like that. A statute of limitations should of applied to Michael's "za zam, I just remembered she didn't want to live like this," 7 or 8 years after the 'accident' alone.

If Terri's case were handled by an honest judge, none of this would be an issue because Michael has shown himself to be a liar in enough ways that his words are not credible.

Given that Terri's case is being handled by a judge who will pretend the facts are whatever he needs them to be, regardless of evidence, I don't think such a statute of limitations would have any impact. Michael could claim Terri recovered briefly two weeks ago and said she wanted to die, and Greer would believe her.

[kosta50]

Of course, MarMema, we should all pray for this soul and others like her. It is indeed unimaginable that out of "mercy" and "respect" for human life we kill people by the slowest and very torturous method, "naturally" (but nonetheless intentionally), yet refuse to end their lives quickly and painlessly because that would be "wrong."

I have seen this "mindset" when I lived in New York, on certain days of the week (I won't mention which), when it is forbidden for some religious groups to use anything "mechanical." So, if they want the light switched on or off, they let an ashtray press the switch or tell a child to turn the lights off -- that way gravity "did it," or the innocent child did it and thereby the law wasn't violated.

It seems to me, we have come a long way, perhaps too long, in our quest for human rights, giving in to rationalism instead of mercy, forgetting that only do we not have a right to our own life (because we can't keep it), but we certainly have no right to end anyone else's life deliberately no matter what the process of what "does it".

Deliberate act with the purpose of ending someone's life is -- murder no matter how legal(istic) minds sugarcoat it.

I have included our Catholic brethren with the same petition to pray with us.

[katnip]

I'm praying for her daily and for us as a country that we do not allow her slow and cruel murder.

[Kolokotronis]

I agree with everything you have written, which is probably no surprise to this pinged group. That said, your comment put me in mind of something my mother asked me to do when she lay dying, quite young by today's standards, of cancer. About ten days before she died she asked me to get the priest for anointing and communion. Then after he left, she took my hand and said, "Tell the priest to "say the prayers"!" I asked her what prayers. She said he'd know. I did and the priest just looked grave and said to tell my mother he would. After she died he told me they were prayers for a peaceful and easy imminent death. That's just what she had.

[NYer]

Disability advocates have long supported Ms. Schiavo’s retained right to receive ordinary care and have argued that labeling a simple gastronomy tube “artificial life support” would immediately and dramatically endanger entire groups of people within the disabled community.

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[AlbionGirl]

Bump and Prayers for Terri.

[franky]

And every federal prison has a stocked legal library and that these libraries are the most used resources in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A prisoner is allowed to build a brief, represent him/her selves and get sufficient time alloted to this effort.

Terry Schiavo has been confined to her room for the last 5 years without any access by anyone to her.

This is a complete denial of civil rights.

[kosta50]

Thank you for sharing that. God is merciful.