Randall Terry tries to talk with Michael Schiavo at Schiavo's home. This photo was taken this morning by the AP.
Posted on 01/31/2005 9:14:49 PM PST by TAdams8591
I'm working through the list though I doubt they care much about me - from Washington State.
We have a presentation for lawmakers if you want it for the fed level. Some have already received it.
Lots of medical issues and ethics, evolution of ethics, funding of hemlock, name changes, etc. We put it together a year ago to educate lawmakers.
Since there are so many elderly who retire in Florida, from a business perspective, it makes sense for the death industry to establish it's national headquarters there.
He's in a silver Mercedes and she's without a wheelchair?
I said that recently in a letter to the editor I sent off to some Fla newspaper. But so far they have not printed it.
I also said we need to redo Florida's image, and make them into a death state.
Something like Florida, the Sundown state.
Mine were pretty receptive to the idea of sponsoring a bill to stop dehydration and starvation for the disabled who cannot speak for themselves.
Richard Burr
and
Elizabeth Dole
Perhaps uou could send your information directly to them again. I'm sure some of them have heard about Terri. I've called them before too, but now that it is in the national headlines a lot more than before, we just might get one of them to sponsor new federal legislation.
The Speaker of the House, Allan Bense:1-850-488-1450
Senate President, Tom Lee:1-850-487-5229
The Governor's Legislative Affairs Office:1-850-488-5000
and the members of the House.
Tomorrow the members of the Senate and a few choice people in the Federal House and Senate.
I am also going to call Bishop Lynch to find out why he didn't return my call.
Why hasn't Jeb Bush taken any firm action?
It is really, really weird. We don't seem to have THAT problem here in PA or I imagine in most other states.
It seems he is in South America right now.
Are we allowed to post your articles yet?
Instead of orange trees, we could make trees with skulls on them. MORBID but it would certainly be more honest and help change Florida's image.
In my humble opinion, it gets too HUMID there anyway.
I"m in Ne Fl, sposed to hit 78 degrees, sweating sitting still!
Others here have been giving links from TheEmpireJournal articles.
Some ten or more years after the autopsy it was finally revealed that in fact, her cerebral cortex was in quite good shape after all. And yet, Karen Quinlan exhibited what I would consider to be far less ability than that clearly shown in the online videos of Terri Schiavo.
It's wonderful that Ed Beck can be so sure that Terri is in a state of PVS, and that she will not suffer from the horrors of death by dehydration. I recall, however, that in the 1970's or so we were doing surgery on newborns with no anesthesia, because we believed that they could feel no pain.
I find it horrifying to read how closely Ed echoes those from a not-so-long-ago time, in his assurance that PVS is a reason to dehydrate someone to death. A living person who smiles, breathes, and laughs, who has not even been given the chance to feed or hydrate herself, is dehumanized to the status of useless eater in the space of a few paragraphs.
I have little doubt that Terri will join her predecessors, Hugh Finn, Christine Busalacchi, Nancy Cruzan, Marjorie Nighbert, and the hundreds like them who never made the news.
Ed is in the right business for our time, that of making people die before God or their bodies do it first. And he seems to be in the right state to run a booming hospice business, as well.
It is not the Schindlers for whom I feel "heartbroken", however. Hope, love, and the willingness to care for someone in a time of need were once considered honorable traits in our society. Whatever happens, the Schindlers can always be assured that they chose the path of honor and nobility in their actions.
The state of Florida now bears a new stigma, which is not being missed by those of us living elsewhere. Destin will not see my face or those of my family again.
Yeah the guy who emailed me back about it was barely civil. I can only wonder if his family is in a tourist business.
Randall Terry tries to talk with Michael Schiavo at Schiavo's home. This photo was taken this morning by the AP.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.