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The Schiavo Stakes: What the Fight's Really About
New York Post (online) ^ | Mar. 25, 2005 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 03/25/2005 5:40:55 AM PST by Zivasmate

THE SCHIAVO STAKES: WHAT THE FIGHT'S REALLY ABOUT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 25, 2005 -- THE looming death by starva tion of Terri Schiavo has ex posed yet again the key fault line in American culture. Those who have sided with her parents in seeking the reinsertion of her feeding tube have a view of life that is profoundly different from those who have sided with her husband's quest to have her die. Those who want her to live tend to view life as a gift — a treasure beyond value that has been bestowed upon us and that we therefore have no right to squander. The giver of the gift cannot be seen by the human eye, and the essence of the gift cannot be seen either. We usually call that essence the "soul." Our souls define us: They make us who we are in the deepest sense. And they transcend us as well: They are our connection to the divine, to all in the universe that is unseen and unknowable but is still there. Most religious people share this set of beliefs, which is why those who have pushed hardest to save Schiavo are devout Christians. Many of those who want her to die, by contrast, view life as a natural phenomenon — a collision of egg and sperm that gives rise 280 days later to a baby. That baby is the product of human interaction, deriving genetic information equally from mother and father and recombining it into a new human form. It's a wonder, but it's not a miracle. It's explicable within the laws of nature, and so there isn't anything necessarily transcendent about it. In some sense, then, the human body has a mechanical quality to it.

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To: TrailofTears
You misunderstood what I was saying. He is very much willing to say her name. Our whole SS class last Sunday was about Terri Schiavo and there were open prayers for her and her family at church.

It's that last night he said he was losing it emotionally and got to the part where he needed to say her name and couldn't but everyone knew what, and who he was talking about.

I guess he's been thanked from members of other churches because they know he is openingly addressing this issue.

61 posted on 03/25/2005 7:09:23 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: cyn
"Yes, I do, from talking w/Terri's family.

The intent is not only to have her body cremated against the wishes of her family, but furthermore to scatter those ashes up in PA on some Schiavo family property, also (needless to say) in defiance of her family's wishes.

Supposedly, greer has already approved cremation & it is on a fast track to being done immediately after her death.

However, FL statutes are that any cremation MUST be run by the district's medical examiner office and be approved. This approval is given only after the ME office is satisfied that the death is not due to violence or suspicious circumstances, homicide, or suicide. The ME office is meant to cooperate with, but to be totally independent of, any law enforcement or hospitals or courts.

One might conclude that Michael's desire to insult and hurt Terri's family goes far beyond simply causing her death."

BUMPIN' THAT SICK B*STARD ALL OVER TOWN.

62 posted on 03/25/2005 7:16:07 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: Miss Behave

AND I BUMP IT AGAIN.


63 posted on 03/25/2005 7:16:34 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: All

AND I BUMP IT AGAIN. YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.


64 posted on 03/25/2005 7:17:43 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: Miss Behave

COMPELLING AND CREEPY BUMP!


65 posted on 03/25/2005 7:18:57 AM PST by Petronski (If Reichskanzler Greer can kill Terri, who will be next?)
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To: Zivasmate; NewDestiny; rebuildus; abigail2; kristinn

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TERRI Nurse: Let Me Testify

http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/25/93355.shtml

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66 posted on 03/25/2005 7:20:00 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Diogenesis

"This can't be equated to Terri's case as some have done...."

Years ago there was a case where some woman left a zillion dollars to her dogs. The will stated that when the dogs had passed away, the remaining trust would be divided among various charities, universities, and long lost distant cousins, whoever.
Here's what happened. The trustees for the dogs spent a ton of money erecting a fortress, guarded by sentries 24-7 to safe guard the little tenants from anyone who might profit from their premature demise. Kennel fire....poisoning....mysterious virus....you get the idea.In addition, You can assume their health care was stirling.

Those who would profit from the dogs demise, hired attorneys to force the dog trustees to erect fences to separate males from females to prevent litters from being born which could extend the care expenses until the trust ran dry.

Remember:
Florida has very large elderly population.
The insurance industry profits when the costs of a person's health care are terminated.
Hospitals and others lose revenue when health insurance money runs out.

And then there's people like Terri's husband and the family of the boxer in
"Million Dollar Baby".It's been said before...follow the money.

Watch "Judgment at Nuremberg" again....then over the weekend, watch the scene in The Passion of Christ, where someone breaks the rules and risks arrest by offering a condemned to die by the courts Christ,...a drink of water.


67 posted on 03/25/2005 7:21:24 AM PST by TET1968
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To: Miss Behave

BUMPIN' IT AGAIN. SOMEONE GO AHEAD AND *SUE* ME.


68 posted on 03/25/2005 7:24:45 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: Sam Cree

" Those of you who wish to punish Florida for the actions of one Democrat, I sincerely hope you stay in your own sorry states. Most of us in the state are "conservative" if that counts, though I gather from this morning's remarks that many of you don't care. "

But you are represented to the world by a laughingstock liberal supreme court and the "faminizer," killer George Greer, who was re-elected just last year. Are you doing enough to correct these failures, or are you hanging back, waiting for everyone else to fix the problem?


69 posted on 03/25/2005 7:25:34 AM PST by MainFrame65
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To: Zivasmate

Judge James "Roy Bean" Whittmore
70 posted on 03/25/2005 7:26:53 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: catch

They have gone a long way toward ruining our great country. May they fail in all the rest of their endeavors.


71 posted on 03/25/2005 7:28:05 AM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: Gopher Broke
IF it were only so simple as those of you who support keeping Terri's feeding tube being reconnected. So far many of your responses to fellow conservatives on this site who have opposed your point of view makes some of DU pitiful pronouncements look mature and rational by comparison.

You have tried to portray this disagreement as one between liberals and conservatives when in fact amongst evangelical Christians there is no agreement on what was right in this case.

And what is all of your response to all of this, if you did not get your way; You threaten to take your marbles and go home, just like the immature kids we all knew growing up. My advice to all with these attitudes: Grow up, there is much more to being a conservative republican than just this one issue.
72 posted on 03/25/2005 7:28:12 AM PST by SoothsayerToo
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

What state is this pastor in?

I suspect that many pastors do not even know about this horror.


73 posted on 03/25/2005 7:28:12 AM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: Unknown Freeper

NO!! How is this all happening??


74 posted on 03/25/2005 7:32:11 AM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
Similar metaphor of the hundred dollar bill, folded up and placed under a can of soup on a grocer's shelf. If we could see under the can, we all would rush to take it. If someone told us about it and we accepted his story, we would also hurry to grab it first. But if we only learn of it after we are gone, then it's too late to enjoy its benefits.

Like the Divine whom we cannot see, or like the Divine whom we only hear of or read about yet choose to disregard or reject the story, that $100 bill certainly exists but has value only to those who grasp it.

75 posted on 03/25/2005 7:32:22 AM PST by masadaman
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To: WKB

I also see a place for The Schiavo Protocol.

From the Post article: "has caused some of their number to respond with glee. That response is doubtless due to the feeling that Republicans and conservatives have suffered a political defeat."

Frankly, I will never be able to travel again to Florida with a close family member who is disabled. Should something happen medically, I would be concerned that a kill order is actually in place. Maybe it won't just be in Florida, either.

I love to travel.


76 posted on 03/25/2005 7:36:05 AM PST by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch.)
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To: MainFrame65

Florida has Jeb as governor, voted strongly for W as president last election, has a Republican legislature. We are doing pretty good in many ways, are a red state, despite many faults.

But go ahead and condemn the whole state because Greer lives here. While you are at it, go ahead and condemn the entire country, since SCOTUS refused to hear the case.

FWIW, it is socialism, not Americanism, that classifies and condemms people according to the group they belong to. The American tradition is to recognize the individual.

Probably you also noticed that Tennessee is represented by the star of "Love Story" and the inventor of the internet.


77 posted on 03/25/2005 7:36:12 AM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Zivasmate
The more he preaches, the more he reinforces the secular schism whereby those without faith equate the value of a single life by its relationship to their own or to strangers miles and worlds apart.

By his lights, the secularist has no sense of soul but it is left to wonder if the whole of those non-believers all feel that the mechanics of life is the only true meaning and worth.

The longer this debate has gone on, the more it has come down to the basic maintenance of an otherwise useless resource; the true test will come when the clamor begins to ease out those whose condition harbors no hope for repair, regardless of age.

Hospitals can look forward to a time when they can advertise their services in the same manner as Joe's Auto Body, General Repair and Good Used Parts.

78 posted on 03/25/2005 7:37:38 AM PST by Old Professer (As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
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To: sandyeggo
I strongly recommend that everyone who has a living trust/advanced health directive update it with clear, unanmbiguous language. If you don't have one, get one.

I urge caution and prudence. We have seen that the written word is subjected to judicial and legislative interpretation. If Terri had a living will of the model form in Florida statutes, she would have been starved to death years ago with no need for pesky court intervention.

If you have a trusted friend, make them your surrogate. They have more ethics than the medical and legal communities. The medical and legal folks will bow down to "the law," and the ethics of the decision fall where they may.

79 posted on 03/25/2005 7:37:51 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: smiley

I don't know about who gets the body but last nite on FOX, Greta interviewed MS brother and asked about funeral arrangements and he said he knew nothing about that. Is it believable that the brother of MS, who also said he had spent the previous nite sitting with MS because he was so distraught and crying about why people hated him, would not know what the intentions are for the disposal of Terri's body? There needs to be an autopsy, but will it surprise anybody if the body is not immediately cremated? That would end the matter for the whole judicial system that has taken control of this country and is more powerful than the elected President of the US. Unless the President is Bill Clinton, for whom no law applied. No mess to clean up and now the real money can flow in from TV, books, etc.


80 posted on 03/25/2005 7:38:39 AM PST by mountainfolk (God bless President George Bush)
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