But the key point is not disputed: Terri is unlikely to die soon unless deprived of food and water.Indeed, the purpose of depriving her of food and water is to kill her.
This is not a case about withholding desperate and disproportionate medical treatment from a patient who is destined to die of a terminal illness. Ironically, if Terri were certain to die of disease tomorrow the purpose of denying her water today would go away.
If Terri's worthless scumbag of a husband went into the home with a gun and shot her he would be tried for murder. Instead he wants to work his murderous intent through the media and so called medical society to murder his wife. One way he is a criminal the other he is a ''caring husband'' according to the libs.
Liberal judges & democrats fight to save Criminals who murdered innocent people arguing they may be mentally insane. At the same time, Terri Schiavo committed no crime, other than to speak for her life & the same people (liberal judges & democrats) demanding her death.
Thanks for posting this xzins!
Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!
Thank you for posting this stunning piece of writing. Mr. Jeffrey nailed the situation pretty brilliantly.
I wonder if any of you has watched someone die, slowly. I have.
I watched my sister die. I told God I did not want to watch, but circumstances left me as the only one who could.
Cancer turns the body against itself, sure. But, in the end you reject the water and food that sustains life. When the fuel is gone, including body fat, nothing is left to keep you going. You look like those poor souls that survived the concentration camps.
Is it Terri that is talking to us? Or, it is someone that thinks they know what is 'best' for Terri. As for me, I do not want to spend years waiting for my judgement day.
Let me die, if I am in her place. In fact, let me take her place. Would you?
I am not the first to coin the phrasing in my tagline, but I think it's even shorter and more to the point.
Michael Schiavo Rebuffs Offer From Wife's Family
By DAVID SOMMER dsommer@tampatrib.com
Published: Jan 29, 2005
CLEARWATER - Michael Schiavo will not leave his wife to live on against what he maintains is Terri Schiavo's stated wish not to be kept alive with the help of a feeding tube inserted into her stomach, his attorney reiterated Friday. "Terri is not a piece of property that one person can give over to another,'' attorney George Felos said when asked why his client has rejected the latest offer made by his wife's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
Comment from Cheryl : The Schindlers did not ask for Michael Schiavo to pass their daughter over to them like a piece of property. They asked Michael Schiavo to relinquish his rights as a guardian, and not dispose of their daughter like she is nothing more than a piece of property. The Schindlers wish to take their daughter home to love and care for her as any loving and responsible parents would do!
``He made a promise to his wife [not to keep her alive by artificial means], and that's what this case is about for him,'' Felos said.
Comment from Cheryl: Michael Schiavo also made a promise to love Terri in "sickness and in health" until death do they part. What happened to that promise? Michael has been sharing a residence with his fiance for the last nine years. They have two children. Their last child was born in October 2003 when Michael Schiavo was starving Terri (his wife) to death via dehydration and starvation.
Speaking on the courthouse steps after a hearing on the Schindlers' latest legal maneuver to keep their daughter alive, Bob Schindler said his son-in-law's position as a loyal husband upholding a promise to his brain-damaged wife is ``poppycock.''
Michael Schiavo has a common law marriage with another woman who has borne him at least two children, Schindler said. ``He's breaking his wedding vows by living with another woman.''
Schindler attorney David Gibbs III said he hoped that by going public with the settlement offer, Michael Schiavo might be persuaded to reconsider.
In an Oct. 26 letter to Schiavo's attorneys, Gibbs said the Schindlers wrote that they are prepared to sign over any rights to Terri Schiavo's marital assets or to any money or assets that might be left over from malpractice awards granted the couple after Terri Schiavo suffered heart failure and subsequent brain damage in 1990 at age 26.
Gibbs said Friday that would include any rights to book, television and movie deals stemming from the nationally publicized case.
Also in the October letter, the Schindlers offered to give Michael Schiavo any money or assets in their daughter's estate if he ends his struggle to have her feeding tube removed and she is allowed to die a natural death. They said he could dictate visitation rights, regardless of whether he divorced their daughter.
``The Schindlers would permit Michael's attorneys to draft any agreement regarding this matter that Michael would desire ... excluding payment of Michael's previous legal fees and costs,'' the letter states.
Twice, Michael Schiavo has won court permission to disconnect his wife's feeding tube so she would die from lack of nutrition and hydration. Both times, the feeding tube was reinserted, most recently in October 2003 on orders of Gov. Jeb Bush.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Bush's appeal of a Florida Supreme Court finding that the special legislative measure known as ``Terri's Law,'' which allowed Bush to intervene, was enacted in violation of the state constitution.
Comment from Cheryl : If the state constitution does not support the Governor and his prudent actions for his intervening in time to save the cruel and unusual murder of an innocent disabled woman, then it is time for Florida residents to URGENTLY revisit the state constitution. There is obviously a major flaw in what it says!
Michael Schiavo contends that his wife is in a persistent vegetative state, unaware of her surroundings. The Schindlers say their daughter reacts to them and could improve with therapy.
I've written to people in the Knights of Columbus leadership in Florida, this morning. I also wrote to the Florida Bishops Conference.
If all the bishops asked their pastors to read a statement about Terri and then asked for a peaceful prayer rally outside of where she is, perhaps the right people will intervene and stop this killing.
Child of God...
We pray those judicial sinners...
Do not cause the hour of thy death...
Amen !!!
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