Posted on 10/30/2003 10:27:17 AM PST by sweetliberty
Thanks to everyone for your contributions and for your dedication to this fight.
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This thread serves as a place for posting all new general information and references, along with links following Terri's case, plus information on cable news and talk radio shows dealing with the issue, court cases and press releases. This is also the place to post contact information, prayers and general discussion.
FL_Engineer suggested that if you have something that qualifies as BREAKING NEWS or FRONT PAGE NEWS, please post it on a separate thread in that category in order to give it maximum exposure and then post a link to the article/thread here so that it will be included in the next update of links. Also, if you post links to articles from original sources and there is also a thread on FR, please link to the FR thread. Many original links become corrupt over time and we want to be able to access the information at will.
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My apologies to (some of) the 'save Terri' posters here (a 'vanity' post)
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Schindlers Respond to Michael Schiavo's Larry King Love-Fest - PART1
Inside right-to-die case, a woman's real life (a few days old but not posted on first thread)
Michael Schiavo pleads case on CNN
What Should Happen With Terri S. (a "vanity" thread)
Schiavo lawyers challenge 'Terri's Law'
The Beltway is also keeping an eye on all. Every phone call, email and fax counted along the way.
PUBLIC AWARENESS took two months of everyone's undivided attention. Half a million people on computers are now Terri supporters. Many non-computer folks are Terri supporters too.
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Heavenly Father, how lacking they are in understanding, for You instituted the courts of justice for the people .."He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
Yet again, Lord, we plead for the hearing before that righteous Judge, the one who will grant relief and release Terri from the pit of hell to which she is now consigned. Thank You that her dear family daily has the joy of being with her, to speak with her and to cheer her and to whisper words of encouragement. Thank You for opening the prison doors that mother and father and sister and brother may enter in. Thank You for the smile she shows in the presence of her mom. These are what gladdens the hearts of her family .. yet there are things that are fiercely troubling as well.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You would remove from Terri both guardians, her husband and the one now appointed, for clearly they have spoken in a biased manner. Spur us on to find out why a man against Terri's Law is the one to represent her interests .. bring to light, I pray, the tangled web that has been woven around Terri. May this play out on the world stage, for we must know how corrupt our judicial system before we can apply the remedy. Give eyesight to the people to see the extent of evil and cause them to take action.
Be for Terri this night peaceful dreams and an excitement to awakening to a new day. May her caregivers be extensions of Your love .. use them, too, Father, to hold back the evil that awaits her. We praise and bless Your holy name, for though man plans, it is You, Father, who decides.
Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name ... Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil .. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, forever, Amen ..
Comments? My first one is that, wow, I never knew they swore an oath to pagan gods! Kinda freaks me out as a Christian.
The Hippocratic Oath (see ancient and modern versions) is one of the oldest binding documents in history. Written in antiquity, its principles are held sacred by doctors to this day: treat the sick to the best of one's ability, preserve patient privacy, teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on. "The Oath of Hippocrates," holds the American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics (1996 edition), "has remained in Western civilization as an expression of ideal conduct for the physician." Today, most graduating medical-school students swear to some form of the oath, usually a modernized version. Indeed, oath-taking in recent decades has risen to near uniformity, with just 24 percent of U.S. medical schools administering the oath in 1928 to nearly 100 percent
Hippocratic Oath -- Classical Version
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.
I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
Hippocratic Oath -- Modern Version
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
He might be foreclosing and then euthanizing. Who knows?
What's so bad is that if an elderly person signs advanced directives, they might not be able to see or understand what they are signing. Simply being of sound mind does not mean that any one of us understands legalese. Little Old Ladies do not usually question authority i.e. their attorney or doctors. They weren't raised that way.
Suffice it to say, that my aunt was catching a flight to Long Beach, CA. I asked her to tell everyone in Long Beach and upon returning home that TERRI IS NOT IN A COMA. SHE IS DISABLED. IT IS MURDER.
Freepers, you can do OPERATION INFORM THE RELATIVES from your computer or telephone.
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