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 can't imagine why anyone would wish for Terri's death to come, in order to save their sanity.
Is that what IS called the ** Center of the Universe** syndrome? Pretty darn strange, in my opinon.
I'll end on a positive note, by saying the article was great.
I don't think her motivation is anything as trivial as all that. I think she wants Terri to hurry up and die because she's bored with hearing about her.
You wrote: I don't think her motivation is anything as trivial as all that. I think she wants Terri to hurry up and die because she's bored with hearing about her.
Bored??? LOL
You've got to be kidding. I'm new here. Are the Terri threads the only threads on Freepers?
Btw, I wasn't being serious in my prior post. I was being sarcastic about her statements about Terri. Sorry if I offended you or her. I didn't mean to.
Playing into my hand? What kind of nonsense is that?
You posted that 34 courts have reviewed Terri's case. I'm telling you that that is utterly false. If you wish to debate, I'm more than keen, but let's base it on truth - shall we?
In case I haven't told you this yet, Welcome aboard. Now fasten your seatbelt. You're in for a rough ride. You will be harassed by advocates of the right-to-kill movement.
You didn't offend me. But then, I'm not the one who jumps for joy every time Terri's one step closer to being murdered. I don't get offended by anyone supporting an innocent woman's right to live.
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