Posted on 12/04/2003 3:31:09 PM PST by sweetliberty
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Who can be a guardian, 1993 letter from Bob Schindler to Michael Schiavo, Palm beach Post editorial and FReeper response, T'wit's song about Schiavo and Felos, transcript of Lee Webb's (CBN) interview with Kate Adamson, partial timeline of Terri's case, the story of Martin and Anne Shapiro and the report on Terri's birthday party,
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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.
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.
You will notice that this thread is not specifically dated. That is because we are just going to keep this one going until we have need of another one.
A reminder: please do not post personal information on the public forum. We have lots of folks on scene down in Florida and we don't want them having any problems with the death squad.
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As Terri Schiavo turns 40 next week, her loved ones fight for her life
Suspicious Circumstances, the Strange Case of Terri Schiavo
Schiavo asks Pinellas judge to rule without trial
Michael Schiavo tries to block Gov. Bush
Michael Schiavo Again Seeks to Block New Information About Terri
Why Was Terri Denied Holy Communion?
Terri Schiavo's 40th birthday Wednesday
Florida's Bush gets report on Schiavo
Participate in Terri Schiavo's Birthday, December 3, With prayer, Mass Intentions, Cards and Notes
FR Birthday Card: Greetings, Prayers for Terri Schindler-Schiavo
New Guardian Urged for Terri Schiavo, More Evaluation of Her Condition Needed
The Guardian Speaks: Terri Schiavo's guardian files his report; there's bad news and good news.
Terri Schiavo's Family Celebrates Her 40th Birthday, Hundreds Send Cards
Changes Proposed In Right-To-Die Laws - Your help is needed NOW in Florida!
The Case of Terri Schiavo: The Human Rorschach Test
TEST for readers: can you find the fallacy in this snip?:
Miami Gardens Woman Has Been Caring for Comatose Daughter for 33 YearsMIAMI GARDENS -- For 33 years, in a bedroom decorated with angels, Kaye O'Bara has tended to her daughter, Edwarda, a diabetic whose heart stopped beating in 1970, damaging her brain and thrusting her into a sleep from which she has never awakened.
Kaye turns Edwarda from side to side a dozen times a day to prevent bedsores. She mixes baby food, milk, eggs, orange juice, Mazola oil, brewer's yeast and a piece of white bread into a blender and then a wire mesh strainer, pouring the concoction into Edwarda's feeding tube every two hours, day and night.
She suctions mucus from Edwarda's throat, whispers endearments in her ear, and braids her long gray hair.
"She always liked to be fussed with," Kaye says of her eldest daughter, who was 16 when she begged her mother: "Promise you won't leave me, will you, Mommy?" before losing consciousness in the hospital. Now 50, Edwarda has never said another word.
She coughs, grins, grimaces, blinks, and yawns, but exhibits no signs of cognition.
Kaye refuses to let anyone refer to her child's condition by its medical term: persistent vegetative state. "I say if they can find me a tomato that smiles, they can say she's in a vegetative state."
Unfortunately, the entire article was not posted, and it is no longer on the linked page. That's why when possible the entire article should be posted.
BTW, this month's Citizen magazine includes that quote:
"I say if they can find me a tomato that smiles, they can say she's in a vegetative state."
Quality of Society's Life Gauged by Care of Disabled, Says Pope"Rights Cannot Be Only the Prerogative of the Healthy"
VATICAN CITY, JAN. 8, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The quality of life of a community is measured by the care given to the weakest, especially the disabled, says John Paul II.
The Pope expressed this conviction in a message sent to the participants of the international Symposium on the Dignity of the Person with Mental Handicaps, being held in the Vatican through Friday.
The three-day symposium, an initiative of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is taking place at the conclusion of the European Year of Disabled Persons.
The Holy Father begins his message by outlining the Christian view of the situation. The "disabled person, even when wounded in the mind or in his sensorial and intellective capacities, is a fully human individual, with the sacred and inalienable rights proper to every creature," he writes.
"The human being, in fact, regardless of the conditions in which he lives his life and the capacities that he might manifest, possesses a unique dignity and singular value starting from the beginning of his existence until the moment of natural death," the lengthy message says.
"The person of the disabled, with all his limitations and sufferings, compels us to question ourselves with respect and wisdom on the mystery of man," the Pope continues. "The more we penetrate the dark and unknown areas of human reality, the more we understand that precisely in the most difficult and disquieting situations the dignity and grandeur of the human being emerges."
"The wounded humanity of the handicapped challenges us to acknowledge, accept and promote in each one of these brothers of ours the incomparable value of the human being created by God," the papal text explains.
"The quality of life within a community is measured, to a large extent, by commitment in the care of the weakest and the neediest, and by respect for their dignity as men and women," the Pope adds.
"The world of rights cannot be only the prerogative of the healthy," he writes. "The participation must be facilitated of the disabled person, to the degree possible, in the life of society and he must be helped to develop all his potential in the physical, psychic and spiritual order."
"A society that would only make room for fully functional members, completely autonomous and independent, would not be a society worthy of the human being," he says categorically.
"Discrimination in virtue of efficiency is no less to be condemned than that in virtue of race or sex or religion," the Pontiff explains.
At the same time, John Paul II states that there is "a subtle form of discrimination in the policies and educational projects that try to hide or deny the deficiencies of the handicapped person, proposing styles of life and objectives that do not correspond to their reality and in the end are frustrating and unjust."
"The recognition of rights must be followed, therefore, by the sincere commitment of all to create concrete conditions of life, support structures and juridical guarantees capable of responding to the needs and the dynamics of growth of the handicapped person and those who share his situation, beginning with his relatives," the papal document exhorts.
"People with mental handicap perhaps have greater need of care, affection, understanding and love," John Paul II adds. "They cannot be left alone, defenseless or unprotected, in the difficult task of facing life."
OK, there it is. Is that the push some needed to speak out for Terri, d'ya think?
Going all out to pressure the 'system' Jeb Bush is so proud of - to save Terri from a tortuous and barbaric death isn't on that list.
As far as I know, the only Roman Catholic priest to enter Terri's room and offer her Holy Sacraments, and some sense of spiritual solace - while under the glare of Michael's armed guards - is a former military chaplain.
The Florida death and dying business is controlled exclusively by the medical profession (pre and post use of body parts for research experimentation and income generation), the legal profession(wills, probate, foundations, tax laws), and the business of religion (grants, endowments, gifts, memoriams, dedications).
The poor sob looks up from his/her death bed surrounded by the three vultures eagerly waiting for his last heart beat, to commence the division of his physical and financial remains.
Is it just possible religion has a good thing going, especially in Florida, and is silent because it doesn't want to rock the boat?
Which reminds me, there was a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest on a boat in the middle of a shark infested ocean........
It isn't happenstance that these three entities are linked together.
We are still at this juncture since Terri's Law was enacted on October 21, 2003, because the Judges refuse to abide by Terri's Law. Isn't that a dereliction of duty and against their Oaths to uphold the Law?
Newbies, please join Terri's Fight at www.terrisfight.org.
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