Posted on 03/20/2005 12:29:52 PM PST by kcvl
Per Fox News...
Posted: December 3, 2003
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WorldNetDaily reported Sunday over 500 e-mails had come to the family's website offering prayers, words of encouragement, poems and even a couple of jokes. They were submitted with the promise that Terri's family would read each one to her.
''When people learned her birthday was coming up, they just started sending notes and cards and e-mails,'' Hennessey told WorldNetDaily. These have been arriving daily at the headquarters of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation in St. Petersburg.
Some of the cards and gifts sent to Terri.
Mary Schindler sticky-tacked some of the cards on the walls in Terri's room earlier in the week, but they were promptly removed.
Schiavo also does not permit flowers in Terri's room.
But smearing the parents while their child lie dying- and judging them as they are not allowed to hold her thru it? And all because the husband has some bizarre rights to kill her?
Please tell me the world is not on it's ear right now. When all is said and done this case will tell us a great deal about our society.
There are many levels to this whole story.
It sure is a poor use of our collective talents and common agendas. In just the past few days I've been called a rightwing religious fringer, which anyone who knows me knows is far from the truth. I've also been called a liar after correcting some posted misinformation. I've asked a couple of people to stop replying to me, and had my requests ignored. There's a lot of raw emotion going on...on both sides...from what I see. I've stayed off these threads for nearly a year until recently. Looks like it may be time to do so again.
Peach, dying people are comforted into their final passing every day in this country. The difference with this case is that Terri Schiavo is (or was until this weekend) not dying. She was alive in a stable but limited situation. No one knows how much cognitive brain function she had, but her family say that she interacts with them.
She has a healthy body that is going to be killed just as if she was trapped in a collapsed building and the rescuers could not get to her in time.
Even people on hunger strikes do not give up water.
Life is filled with things you think you'd never do, and you may not really know what you'd want in a certain situation until you're in it. I don't suppose I would want to live the way she's living, but on the other hand, if my family wanted me and I knew it, I think that might make the difference.
Huh? I'd respond but don't know what you're getting at.
From what I understand this case alone has caused many file living wills. But my family and his should know that we speak for each other.
Your post 421; why address it to me?
That's why I have remained neutral to this whole thing. People's refusal to see all the evidence exists on both sides of this saga. That's what's being largely ignored.
Accusing the husband of this and that, when medical experts have already testified to the contrary, is nothing more than smearing the husband.
Though I don't throw my food back up
I'm not a big eater, and never have been .. I usually only eat once a day .. dinner
Friends who knew here say she was "pudgy" (their words, not mine) in high school and kept getting thinner every year.
I don't mean to make excuses for her eating behavior
But she was in her 20's .. many young women did then and still do today do stupid things to lose weight
I remember doing those stupid Diet Pills back in my 20's to lose weight
>And it was also after Mr. Schindler testified in open court under oath that he told Michael it was time to get on with his life.<
My goodness! So, are you implying, that by telling his son-in-law to get on with his life, Mr Schindler was saying he wanted his daughter to be killed by starvation/dehydration??
Wouldn't a simple divorce suffice just as well?
That's good - but what would be your reluctance to put it in writing? (Just curious.)
"It is what it is," and yes, it clearly reflects the sensibilities of our legislative and legal system, no matter which turn the case takes from here.
At the same time, I don't see much defense in this thread, of denying the parents' access to Terri.
the medical doctors in the case have stated that her bulimea is what may have attributed to her having a potasium deficiency which caused her heart attack.
And they conveniently ignore that Michael won a lawsuit against the doctors for malpractice
$$$$$$
During which lawsuit he promised to care for her until the day HE DIED. He did not bring up her wish to have her life terminated until after he got the settlement.
Usually people bring it up in the Emergency room, or ICU when someone has had a devastating brain insult.
It's so funny how people see things differently, I would do exactly what Michael Schiavo is doing.
That's not what I'm implying at all.
Freepers have accused everything of MS from murder to bigomy. Although how he can be a bigamist since he's clearly still married is a mystery.
But anyway, I just thought it was interesting that previous to money being a problem with the Schindlers, they lived with and liked Michael and did not object to him being named guardian and in fact told him it was time to get on with his life.
But when they didn't get any malpractice $$ (Why they thought they were entitled to that is another mystery) is when the accusations started that Michael was not caring appropriately for their daughter and tried to strangle her.
The truth is going to come out one day soon. Then we will see who has not seen what. I think there are some posters who have raised interesting points, and they disagree with me on this case. Time will tell.
No real reluctance. But my family respects what my husband states as facts, thankfully.
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