Posted on 10/21/2003 5:59:13 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
UPDATE FROM TERRI'S VIGIL SITE ON LOCATION... by floriduh voter and drk4the1: TERRI IS NOT BEING RE-HYDRATED AT MORTON PLANT HOSPITAL IN CLEARWATER, FL. The Governor's Office is under the impression and reporting that the procedure started at 7:07 pm. While it's being reported to the family attorney that she is not going to receive anything. A telephonic hearing is scheduled to begin at 8:30 pm est with Judge Douglas Baird re: Michael Schiavo's suit against Gov. Bush and his executive order of today. Additionally, Michael S. is disputing his removal as Terri's legal guardian. Anything helpful appreciated. Contact floriduh voter or the drk screen name. We are outside fighting the mosquitoes. H E L P !!!!!
293 posted on 10/21/2003 8:51 PM EDT by floriduh voter (Please keep following Terri Threads. We aren't done yet... updates also at terrisfight.org)
BREAKING... IV HAS BEEN STARTED... TERRI WILL BE TURNED OVER TO A REAL GUARDIAN. Felos INJUNCTION WAS JUST DENIED BY JUDGE BAIRD. Please copy and paste this on every Terri thread you can find. Thanks, FV from the Front Lines, the freep of our lives. Thank you Free Republic, the Nation and the World!!!!!!!!
Oh God! Another fool who's into "EXPERT WORSHIP".
Last night, one Florida congressman spoke how "THE EXPERTS" said his Dad would be either comatose or a vegatable for the rest of his life. THE EXPERTS WERE WRONG!!!
According to Michael, there's less than $50K. Of course, depending upon where the money's gone, that in and of itself could be a motive for murder if you think about it...
Once she is in the hospital it will be much more difficult to kill her. The hospital is subject to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), that requires an emergent patient be treated and stabilized. If they don't provide the care, her new guardian can sue them as well as report the violation to Florida's state department of health. Legal penalties are high for a violation of this type. In addition, Medicare's Conditions of Participation require certain standards of care for hospital patients. This lady has some Federal protections now. Keep that in mind if they try to do anything to her in the hospital.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Back when Nita Nupress was Nita Nuprez, it took me way over a year to get the pun. I figured that Nuprez was a name like Lopez or Gomez. Boy did I feel dumb.
I think it is oustandingly presumptuous if we sentenced people to death just because they could not communicate with us. I am not the person to judge a PVS patient's quality of life as insufficient. It is not enough to extrapolate I might not want to live in that condition myself.
In Terri's case, she is not in pain, she has periods of wakefulness and periods of sleep, and her bodily functions are by and large self-sustaining. I do not know if she dreams, experiences happiness, sadness or pain. I suspect she does, but the main thing is that she is cared for by people who want to care for her as long as she lives. Her parents and siblings want to take care of her. That alone is enough for me to admit I am not qualified to make or support a decision to end her life. She is surrounded by love when her family is there.
There is more to this "story" than just what Mr. Schiavo is claiming: that Terri Schiavo didn't want to be kept alive by medical, or other means. He has apparently moved on with his life. He's bedding another woman while his legal and living spouse is hospitalized. It is clear to any impartial observer that Mr. Schiavo has no place in his life for his wife. While the logical course would be a divorce, Mr. Schiavo is intent on making sure she dies. Why. I think you know why.
Every day she shows signs of lucidity, he knows she could "snap out of it". There are charges that she didn't come to this predicament by an act of God, or a stroke of bad luck. There is medical evidence that something external happened to her. He fears he may be revealed as a batterer. As long as she breathes, he walks on shakey ground. Kill her, cremate her and he goes on.....free. The truth of what happened is justice fulfilled. She's still a living, breathing human being. with proper therapy, she could lead a more comfortable life. As long as breath and life remains in each one of us, hope lives. Without hope, living is Hell.
Oh really? ALL of them?
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