Doctors: Terri case not 'death with dignity' issue

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 22, 2003 | Diana Lynne

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Always a good reminder, thanks for posting.

I read sometime ago that in Holland the elderly avoid becoming patients in their country's hospitals whenever possible. Apparently they know there is a good chance they won't get out alive. Recently, I read that Denmark is becoming like Holland.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I ahd not seen taht about O'Reilly. That's it I am done with this confused liberal.

[GovernmentShrinker]

He is a registered nurse! And according to one report I read yesterday, he is employed at the hospital where Terri was just rehydrated.

[SuziQ]

He said he accepted Michael Schiavo's word that therapy had been deemed unnecessary.

Some attending physician this guy was! Did he even do any sort of evaluation of her?

[SuziQ]

And I don't see how a feeding tube is such a big deal. They can be dealt with at home relatively easily.

This was Terri's parent's point. They were willing to take her home with them and continue her care, but her husband didn't want that. He wanted her dead, cause he said she told him that she wouldn't want to be kept alive by extraordinary means. Well, feeding someone is not extraordinary!

[Republic]

Just sent this article to SeanHannity@foxnews.com,

annasantamaria@thehospice.org,

Rushlimbaugh@eib.net,

tbrokaw@nbc.com,

drather@cbs.com,

me@glenbeck.com,

and

jeb.bush@myflorida.com

[sisterjforteri]

Well, I'll remember to stay the hell out of that hospital! That's just unbelievable, tho.

[freekitty]

I agree with this Doctor.

[ZAKJAN]

Michael Schiavo Continues Legal Battle, Terri Improving

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 23, 2003

Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Michael Schiavo vows to continue fighting Terri's family -- this time over legislation passed that gave Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) the authority to require doctors to reinsert the feeding tube that was allowing Terri Schiavo to live.

George Felos, the assisted suicide advocate who is Michael's lead attorney, will go to court on Monday to challenge the constitutionality of Bush's authority. Felos claims the decision should rest with Michael, who obtained a local judge's permission to end Terri's life.

Felos claims Michael is benefiting from an outpouring of public support, though rallies and letterwriting campaigns have been overwhelmingly in Terri's favor.

"He's a fighter, and he's feeling in some ways encouraged," Felos said.

Meanwhile, Terri Schiavo's parents and brother visited her for more than an hour at Woodside hospice.

"Terry is great, absolutely great. She has her color back. She's tired, but she just looks wonderful," said her father, Bob Schindler. "I think she's out of harm's way."

The night before, Terri appeared drawn and her eyes were rimmed with red, Schindler said, but she was beginning to look better Thursday.

Doctors reinserted the feeding tube at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater on Wednesday and then Terri was secretively transported to the hospice where she has been a patient for years, only minute before Terri's family was scheduled to visit her.

Pat Anderson, attorney for Terri's family, says the action was designed to weaken Terri before she was medically ready to be moved from the hospital.

[First_Salute]

Bump --- affadavit by registered nurse Carla Iyer, who was employed at Palm Garden of Largo Convalescent Center in Largo, Florida from April 1995 to July 1996, while Terri Schiavo was a patient there.

[Old Student]

Thank you for the attribution on that quote, and likewise on the blunt question. To add Ben Franklin's statement on the subject: "We must all hang together, or we will all assuredly hang seperately."

[Dixielander]

F L A S H

Substitute host for Michael Savage Show (on now in my part of the country) is asking for people to call in to discuss Terri Schiavo saga. Telephone number is: 1-800-449-8255

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"She is not dependent on advanced medical interventions. Nothing is mechanically beating her heart, or forcing oxygen into her lungs. She is simply being fed through a gastrostomy tube. Would we allow a retarded child to be starved to death?

Simple. Powerful. And utterly beyond all possibility of intellectually honest refutation.

G-d bless you, Dr. Orient!

[Terriergal]

I normally stay away from these threads because I cannot bear to relive it, this just breaks my heart.

I am so sorry for you....you must be going through h*// right now.

[Terriergal]

good reminder.

[joanie-f]

Judge Whittemore cannot possibly be lacking information in this case. Nor can he possibly need seven-plus hours to contemplate the facts about Terri's condition and Michael's malevolent complicity. Adding to that the fact that he is a Clinton appointee, cowardice and premeditated, calculated foot-dragging may well be playing a part in this delay.

Every minute this man continues to ‘deliberate’ moves Terri Schiavo one minute closer to her deliberate death.

If he rules as many of us fear he will, may God forgive a nation whose justice system allows a murderer to commit his crime over a period of years, in full view of three hundred million witnesses, and with the blessing of 'The Law'.

‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me’ … Jesus Christ