Posted on 05/14/2005 2:09:03 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater
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Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation Urges Wife of Disabled Jacksonville Man to Err on the Side of Life To: National Desk Contact: Pamela F. Hennessy for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, 727-445-1766, phenn@zimp.org CLEARWATER, Fl., May 14 /Christian Wire Service/ –- The volunteers with the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, along with the family of Terri Schiavo, are urging Jacksonville, Florida resident, Eliza Thomas, to allow her 34 year old husband to live. The Foundation has learned that Scott Thomas suffered brain injury in September of 2004 and has since been incapacitated and dependent on others. His mother, Pamela Patton, has petitioned the courts for guardianship of the disabled man and was awarded a temporary guardianship which could expire as early as June 3, 2005. Mr. Thomas's wife, Eliza, is currently seeking to take his guardianship over. Ms. Patton is currently pursuing neurological testing and treatment options with a Clearwater, Florida neurologist, Dr. William Hammesfahr. Mrs. Thomas, however, has reportedly stated that her intention is to move her husband to the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida and seek the authority to direct the removal of his gastric feeding tube, causing his death by dehydration and starvation. According to Ms. Patton, her son speaks a limited vocabulary, gives affirmative and negative hand signals and has successfully answered questions of where he lives, where he attended school and his situation. She states that he is aware and oriented. The volunteers of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation are urging Florida's Department of Children and Families (Florida's social services agency) to investigate the circumstances surrounding Mr. Thomas's injuries and to ensure that he is not currently a victim of abuse and neglect. Terri Schiavo's family is asking Mrs. Eliza Thomas to err on the side of life. According to them, the dehydration and starvation death suffered by their daughter in March of this year was anything but a peaceful and painless death. Statement of Bob Schindler, Terri Schiavo's father: The suffering our daughter endured and her death over the course of nearly two weeks was horrific. I am pleading with Mrs. Thomas to please reconsider her decision to seek the removal of Scott's feeding tube and to allow him to receive the therapy and rehabilitation he needs to improve. I beg Mrs. Thomas to give her husband a chance. |
Jacksonville police are probably too busy losing sex offenders they're supposed to keep track of- or -the doctor just believed the wife.
You're right!
Euthanasia Definitions
* Euthanasia: the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. (The key word here is "intentional". If death is not intended, it is not an act of euthanasia)
* Voluntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed has requested to be killed.
* Non-voluntary: When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.
* Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.
* Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide."
* Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection.
* Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water.
What Euthanasia is NOT: There is no euthanasia unless the death is intentionally caused by what was done or not done. Thus, some medical actions that are often labeled "passive euthanasia" are no form of euthanasia, since the intention to take life is lacking. These acts include not commencing treatment that would not provide a benefit to the patient, withdrawing treatment that has been shown to be ineffective, too burdensome or is unwanted, and the giving of high doses of pain-killers that may endanger life, when they have been shown to be necessary. All those are part of good medical practice, endorsed by law, when they are properly carried out.
Back to Neanderthalia with ya.
I hope and pray that you are right.
When did this loss of sexual offenders happen? Could you post the info please?
"You mean we have the right to kill our spouses?"
Good point. Maybe we should let all of the murderers in jail for killing their spouses set free.
"Murder went to=euthnasia= now to "letting them die"."
Good point. Terri wasn't dying. They murdered her.
DISABLED, DISABILTY....YES, SIMILAR WORDS.
I AM DISABLED ( CANNOT WALK VERY WELL) AND SO I HAVE A DISABILTY.
Very simple isn't it??? So, dear hildy.... we WILL use, as long as we chose, the word...."DISABLED"!!
Thank you, I just knew YOU would understand.
Great media contact info.
Nationwide local media contact database - one of the best all-purpose links.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media
For contact info for all media in a local area, enter your zipcode.
For contact info for all media in a state, click that state on the map.
For national media, check the "show national media" box.
When it returns your list of media outlets, you can click on the name to go to the website.
If you want to send email to any or all of them, click the box next to the name. Then, click "compose message". When the next screen comes up, enter the requested information, type in your message, and click "send message".
==>Added bonus: on the left hand side of the search page are links to the same kind of contact info for national, state and local officials; and state agencies.
Did somebody call you DISABLED again? I wish they'd just come right out and say STUPID!
You people argue like you're in kindergarden.
Why are you mad at me. I'm saying that the condition of people that are allowed to be taken off of life-support is vastly different than your condition. What is wrong with that? And can you please answer that without personal attacks or yelling or throwing fits.
Isn't that expression a code word for "Jews" anyway!
A personal attack would be if I called you something awful... like a fool, or a monkey.... get the drift of it. You know, like NAME calling. If I called you a name or two... why that would be justtttt terrible... and I did NOT call you anything but... "hildy". Your handle on FR.
I do not approve of anybody telling another Freeper NOT to use a perfectly adequate word like... "disabled".
Disabled is disabled. Let us Look at what the Oxford Dictionary says about: 'DISABLED', shall we??
It says right here on page 237 of my handy dictionary from Oxford:
"physical incapacity caused by injury or disease"
Why... hildy... LOOK!!
That covers my walking problem and the gentleman in Jacksonville's head injury!!
WOW!!! Keep smilin'. Ain't life GRAND!!
Oh, golly...I used "THE WORD".... alas , I confess! LOL!!
If you find out the story is true would you then considerer it MURDER?
I remember that she has stated numerous times that she is half Jewish on her fathers side. It just makes me cringe that she seems to support this kind of stuff after what happened to them.
Silly isn't it? Next thing you know we won't be able to say murder when someone is murdered, like Terri.
"His mother, Pamela Patton, has petitioned the courts for guardianship of the disabled man and was awarded a temporary guardianship which could expire as early as June 3, 2005."
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I guess she better move out of Florida and establish residency elsewhere before that, if she wants to keep her son alive.
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