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She is in God hands he really controls the comming and goings on this planet.....Terri still had freewill an if it to be both her and the Lord will restore this!

There are those when they fast they fast in the name of the Lord, and the Lord substains them unless foul play takes place we shall see....

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A WORD FROM DRACULA....

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
> Published on: 03/29/05
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — The questions that have so deeply divided Terri Schiavo's family during the last years of her life could be settled with an autopsy.

George Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, said Monday his client had requested a post-mortem examination on his wife, whose feeding tube was removed 11 days ago. Pinellas County's chief medical examiner will perform the autopsy, Felos said.

The attorney said he expected the autopsy to show the "full and massive extent" of damage to Terri Schiavo's brain after a 1990 heart attack that may have been brought on by an eating disorder.

David Gibbs, a lawyer representing the 41-year-old woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, said, "The family wants a full understanding of what happened back in 1990."

"We'd like that while she's still alive but when she does pass into eternity, we'd like an autopsy," he said. "I'm glad they suggested it."

Some of the unanswered questions come from the very different accounts the two sides of Terri Schiavo's bitterly divided family have given about her condition, especially since her feeding tube was removed March 18 under court order.

At midday Monday outside the Woodside hospice where his daughter lies, Bob Schindler appealed to "the powers that be" to save her.

Schindler described his daughter as "very, very, very weak," but said, "I hug her and I kiss her and she's reacting to that. She's trying to talk."

He also said she is "begging for help" and "fighting like hell to live."

But Felos, who visited Schiavo on Monday afternoon, said she was "very calm, very relaxed and very peaceful." He said she was showing only involuntary responses to stimuli.

Felos said Schiavo's eyes were closed when he entered her room, but opened when he touched her cheek. He said she also showed "primitive auditory reflexes" in responding instinctively to sound.

"There is no cognitive reaction by Mrs. Schiavo," Felos said. "She's exhibiting what she's exhibited for the last 15 years."

For much of that period, her family has been engaged in a tug-of-war over her fate. Her husband says she had told him she would not want to be kept alive artificially. Her parents say her strong Catholic faith would have prevented her from making that choice.

Years of litigation over removal — and then restoration — of the feeding tube went as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, which rejected the case.

Felos said he spent more than an hour in Schiavo's room Monday. "Soft, soothing" music was playing, he said, and the room was decorated with flowers, stuffed animals and a foot-tall white angel.

He said he reviewed Schiavo's medical charts with hospice nurses, who described her pulse as "thready" and said she had had no urine output since Sunday night.

On the other hand, he said, "Her breathing is not labored and her skin tone is fine."

Doctors predicted she would probably die within two weeks of the tube's removal. It had been removed and restored twice before, but she has never been without it this long.

Felos said Schiavo had twice been given 5-milligram doses of morphine, once March 19 and again Saturday.

A nurse's notes from the second dose recorded that the drug was administered in response to "slight moans, grimacing and tensing of the arms," Felos said.

Bob Schindler expressed "a grave concern" earlier Monday that the hospice staff would "expedite the process to kill her with an overdose of morphine."

Felos responded: "There's no place for statements that the hospice is going to hasten Terri's death. That's not true at all."

Outside the hospice, the crowd of demonstrators was smaller and quieter than over the weekend, down to a few dozen from a peak of about 300.

The feud between the Schindler family and Michael Schiavo runs so deep that Terri Schiavo had two sacramental blessings on Easter Sunday.

A hospice chaplain and Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski, a friend of the Schindler family, administered the Roman Catholic rite for the dying, including communion, in the presence of Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri Schiavo's siblings.

The chaplain blessed and anointed her again without communion while Michael Schiavo was with her, Felos said.