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. |
What I can't get away from is how much pain and suffering there is in even one of those cases...and apparently there are hundreds or even thousands of cases... I just don't have words.
Remember Donald Herbert!
Why, yes... it is! Good point.
Another spouse trying to pull a Michael Schiavo ping.
I think Alabama's Chief Supreme Court Judge came out and said it was a travesty to what happened to Terri Shindler. That might be good state to take this fellow to.
Yup, she is trying to get her husband "Schiavo'd".
Let's just say I'd be very surprised.
Fool.
So if you find out it is true would you call that murder? It is a very simple question for you to answer.
Don't worry LIW, you are no "fool".
Isn't that expression a code word for "Jews" anyway!
In that case, I'd have to say, WE PEOPLE, because I'm Jewish. Try again. Your obsession with me is mind boggling.
Exactly, not to mention when they murder their unborn babies, too. Murder comes in all sizes with the culture of death.
Would it stand to reason that people who had abortions that never accepted the consequences of it would want to have disabled people killed also? Just asking for your opinion.
I frankly can't think of a better word. What would you suggest?
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Usage Note:
Disabled is the clear preference in contemporary American English in referring to people having either physical or mental impairments,
Don't they mean, "... with a Clearwater, Florida neurologist and Nobel Prize nomineee, Dr. William Hammesfahr"?
Have you read this article about this man's case?
http://www.theempirejournal.com/514054_cognizant_jacksonville_ma.htm
Pretty suspicious events leading up to his collapse. The wife wants to move on, it sounds like.
He is a neurologist though, right? He isn't likely to murder anyone is he?
Well, in my opinion, if one doesn't understand the ramifications of killing their own unborn child, or accept that that is murder, then I guess I can see why they think murdering disabled people is ok, too. To show no remorse or regret, hmmm, seems there is a word for that, but I can't recall what it is at the moment. Do you know what the word is that I'm trying to think of?
LOL!!!
There is something VERY SERIOUSLY WRONG with a society that would give any credence at all to a lawyer who wants to kill people based on what the voices in his head tell him.
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