In other words your Aunt taught you how to be a human being. In contrast, this is what the other side thinks is best.
Posted on 03/05/2005 3:40:34 PM PST by AliVeritas
In a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., lives a young woman who is quite alive, yet quite unlike most of you reading these words. Since 1990, she has not been able to swallow or to communicate as most of us do.
However, she smiles and cries, kisses her parents and utters a few simple words. She is not on life support. She receives nutrition through a tube instead of chewing and swallowing. She is not in a coma. She is not in a persistent vegetative state as defined by Florida law.
She is much loved by her loyal parents and other relatives. She is a living human being, one who needs more care than most, but a human being nonetheless. (According to her parents, she left no instructions on how she would want to be treated in such a situation and does not now want to die.)
Yet Michael Schiavo wants his wife, Terri, dead. After winning a considerable amount of money through malpractice lawsuits, Schiavo did not invest the money in his injured wife's rehabilitation, as he had promised.
Instead, he paid lawyers to have her feeding tube removed and so kill her by the slow and awful death of starvation. If his plan succeeds, Michael Schiavo will finally have his way with a wife he long ago abandoned. He now lives with another woman who has had two children by him. Yet he unjustly holds legal authority over Terri's life and death.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
I think legally it is known as Abandonment.
We are making progress! You got one word right - CHOCK.
"There were no tubes of any kind attached to her body. She was completely free of any restraints that would have indicated any type of artificial life support. Not even her feeding tube was attached and functioning when we entered, as she is not fed 24 hours a day."
Please. Just let Terri go home with her parents and other relatives that love her! This is SO unfair. There but for the Grace of God go I.
My cousin had a rough birth and ended up with CP. Wendy lived a great life with all of us (her cousins) until she was well into her 30's. Whenever I see any film footage of Terri, I'm reminded of Wendy. Wendy was no worse off than Terri is, and dammit! There was a Real Live Person inside of her disabled body. For Pity Sake...my Aunt trusted all of us kids to push her around and look out for her and INCLUDE her in whatever we were doing...from just being kids playing on the lawn to taking her to school dances, etc. Wendy had a great life; Teri deserves no less!
So absolutely unfair...
...to starve an innocent human being to death.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 4, 2005 -- Kate Adamson, award winning author and disability rights activist, by request of the Schindler family, has launched a campaign to save Terri Schiavo from starvation.Like Terri, the doctors felt that Kate was someone who should not or could not be saved. Kate suffered a catastrophic brain stem stroke and was dependent on a feeding tube for all her nourishment. Kate had her feeding tube turned off for over a week.
Now fully functional except for some paralysis on the left side of her body, Kate is in the unique position of knowing what it is like to be starved. She is hopeful that her story will get people to stop before they sign on to the idea that Terri Schiavo should be starved to death. Unlike Michael Schiavo who is trying to have his wife starved to death, Kate's husband Steve fought to save her life.....
We are all waiting for you to designate that 'chock full of lies' thingie, as a FReeper in such good standing, we await your explanation.
That was quite a bomb for all of us who support Terri because we believe her parents, the wonderful folks who have visited her, and because we will always stand on the side of 'right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness' in any such case as Terri's where affidavits abound testifying to Michael's breathtakingly horrific treatment of Terri the moment the money ( 1.2 million) was in his hands.
In other words your Aunt taught you how to be a human being. In contrast, this is what the other side thinks is best.
Wonderful posts...She is in my prayers!
>>>This particular article is chock full of lies, so yes you are being deceived -- by lies, not truths.>>>
How so? What part is lies?
How did I miss this thread until now? Arghh! Thanks for the ping(s)!
Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!
Exactly. You make an excellent point. It is Just Michael's Claim.
No proof, no record of Terri ever suggesting she would rather be painfully starved to death - instead of being in the xcellent care of her parents.
wonderful link, there! Thank you!
You're welcome. I've found it very informative.
"We are making progress! You got one word right - CHOCK."
And the one word that sums up your position on Terri is "CROCK".
Great article. The truth will out.
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