Attention Freepers:Mpeach daughter looking for reference articles on Terry Shiavo! All welcome

[hispanicrepublican24]

I am writing a paper for my class, and I cant find references that are credible. So dad, (M.Peach)suggested I post a request to my fellow Freepers, being that we call it like it is! Any help and thoughts on paper formating Ideas, greatly appreciated. I have looked through tons of sites but I have not found many articles that are credible or they lack info.

[hispanicrepublican24]

I have to make the paper open to both views (the truth and the lie)while stating my opinion. I am having trouble finding enough info for both. Links to sites that I can read are great,too.

[TNinga]

http://www.nndb.com/people/435/000026357/

"Terri Schiavo entered a vegetative state in 1990 after adopting an "iced tea diet" (related to her bulimia), resulting in a disastrous potassium deficiency that caused irreversible brain damage. In this persistent vegetative state she remained the last fifteen years of her life, neurological tests indicating that her cerebral cortex was principally liquid.

Both Schiavo's doctors and her court-appointed doctors expressed the opinion that there existed no hope of rehabilitation. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, stated that it was his wife's wish that she not be kept alive through unnatural, mechanical means. Michael Schiavo wanted life support (her feeding tube) removed, after which Terri would slowly die of malnutrition and dehydration. By this time Michael had taken a new lover, but refused to divorce Terri, as doing so would have forfeited his right to determine her care."

[hispanicrepublican24]

Thank you so much! I am saving the links to read for my report. I can't believe the amount of post in other sites I read, that have no truth, or substance to their comments. I saw one that a lady said people like Terry are a burden on society! I was disgusted

[backhoe]

My collection of links:

Useless Eaters vs The Death Cult
various FR links & stories | 03-29-05 | the heavy equipment guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1372897/posts

[yellowdoghunter]

Also look on the homepage of FR for the direct Terri link. Since you have already gotten the one from Futureuselesseater...hopefully, that will be more than enough.

Good luck on your paper.

[trussell]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=terryschiavo

[trussell]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=schiavo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=schindler

[restornu]

You should asked for this thread to be moved to "Chat Forum" for very few go here unless sent!

BTW there are disputes about Schiavo being on a diet at that time in her life....her family and friend that she was on a diet 6 years earlier!

....of course this all depends if one wants find truth or confirmation for right to let helpless being strave to death!

Rush Limbaugh
RUSH: I have to read you an e-mail that I got last night in the main e-mail account,

Hello, Rush, my name is Patrick Britzalaro. I am currently a battalion chief with the Buffalo fire department and up until April of 2003 I was the safety battalion chief for the Buffalo fire department. I'm very familiar with the fire that Don Herbert was severely injured in. I can tell you that firefighter Herbert was literally buried alive with hundreds of pounds of roofing debris when the flaming roof gave away. In addition to this, firefighter Herbert's only air supply, his self-contained breathing apparatus face piece was completely pinched off. That left him in full cardiac arrest when he was found and dug out from his would-be grave.

In the Buffalo fire department's subsequent investigation we concluded that firefighter Herbert went ten minutes without oxygen. Now, as you know, going that long without oxygenated blood to the brain would under most circumstances leave one not only clinically dead but biologically dead. The fact that firefighter Herbert came through this is a miracle in itself. In the immediate days and weeks following this terrible incident firefighter Herbert's family was told that he virtually had no chance of recovery. The best they could hope for was that he would be in a permanent vegetative state due to the severe irreversible brain damage that he suffered.

Mrs. Linda Herbert was given the option of pulling her husband's feeding tube, and after much soul-searching, decided against it. The next nine and a half years proved to be extremely difficult and exhausting for the entire Herbert family. Although most people had completely written this hero off, the Herbert family and close friends continued to pray and believe for a miracle and as we all know now this is exactly what happened this past Saturday afternoon. Just to bring you up to date, there was a press conference held Wednesday afternoon. Firefighter Herbert's doctors confirmed that over the past several years Don's condition had deteriorated to the point that he was in a persistent vegetative state.

Now, I'm reading to you from an e-mail I received from the battalion chief for the Buffalo fire department, Patrick Britzalaro, and he was confirming yesterday that in a press conference doctors said that the firefighter's condition had deteriorated to the point that he was in a persistent vegetative state. And Mr. Britzalaro says, "Hmm, where have we heard about this condition recently?"

"Thank you for your time and your great work, Rush, and all the best." I wrote him back and I agreed with him. I told him it is indeed a miracle, a great story and it warms your heart his family stuck by him and everybody pitched in, had the resources to do so. And I thanked him for thinking of me to pass this on. He sent it to me twice to make sure I would see it and get it. So thank you, Mr. Britzalaro for sending this along.

I appreciate it very much and congratulations to everybody. I've seen videotape. Have you seen videotape of the firefighter walking around? He's walking around in a walker now wherever he's at, the hospital or the nursing home wherever he is, and he does have, as you can imagine in a coma after a lot of years, in the persistent vegetative state for most of that time, he has a little vacant look on his face, but he's talking.

He just talked up a storm on Saturday out of the blue if you're not familiar with the story. But I mean it is, you know, you have to mention it, interesting to note, doctors said, yep, persistent vegetative state. His family was allowed to hang in with him. His family was allowed to hang in with him and it did prove to being miraculous.

I wish you a good soul searching on this subject!:)

[Juiceyguy]

The most neutral page I have seen is http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html

It seems to rely on the facts rather than all the media rumors and hype. The most important documents to this ordeal are probably the actual court proceedings including the the independent doctors testimony and the witnesses that testified in behalf of of Terri 'not' wanting to be kept on life support. Sorry I don't have a source where you can find this, but is probably beyond the depth that you will have time to get into anyway.

While your at-it, get a subscription to a magazine called "Skeptical Inquirer". It will open your eyes to just how deceiving people are from all walks of life. It will help make you more inquisitive and give you a head start in life on seeing the wool before it's pulled over your eyes.

[restornu]

Felos’ Mother Killed His Father---Assisted Suicide?
http://www.theempirejournal.com/505053_felos_mother_killed_his_f.htm

[hispanicrepublican24]

I have to say thank you, mostly because I love Rush! Also

because this site is so awsome and incredible to me. I am

new to the whole post/forum/blog, and I was uneasy

thinking that I would not recive responses. Boy was I

wrong, Thankd God for Freepers! Once again thanks a bunch

and this is the most complicated report I have ever

writen, because I know facts but I have to present my

report in a manner of Statment-Supporting Fact. I have not

found alot of facts, and they are not letting me use any

chat forums as reference. I need help, but atleast I have

the guidence of Freepers that love to share knowledge and

guidence.

[hispanicrepublican24]

THank you for that, as for not having time to get into all that, I want to make a point of making time. What are worth in the world, if we cannot make time to change the wrong that is done? We are so much more than what we have become, and I feel that is in part if not all because we do not take time to feel the wind and hear the truth from within our souls.

[Lexinom]

http://www.hedgersoftware.com/terrilaughs.wmv

FWIW