Posted on 03/26/2005 5:11:01 AM PST by areafiftyone
Contrary to predictions that Terri Schiavo's starvation death would be painless and dignified, an eyewitness who visited her hospice room early Saturday morning reports that she is now bleeding from the eyes and mouth.
Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" reported Saturday morning:
"Barbara Weller, who's is one of the attorneys for the Schindlers, says that the last time she checked in, not very many hours ago, Terri's eyes and tongue were bleeding now.
"Her eyes are sunken and her skin continues to flake off," Weller added.
On Thursday Terri's parents reported that their daughter now resembles "an Auschwitz victim."
At the request of Michael Schiavo's attorney, Judge George Greer has banned cameras and video equipment from her room, precluding the possibility that a photographic record of her deteriorating condition might be kept.
The eyewitness accounts stand in stark contrast to predictions from medical experts cited in numerous media reports who insisted that Terri's starvation death would not be gruesome.
On Wednesday, for instance, the Los Angles Times reported:
"Doctors say that going without food and water in the last weeks of life is not traumatic, and that the body is equipped to adjust to such conditions."
The paper quoted Dr. Perry G. Fine, vice president of medical affairs at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Arlington, Va.
-Then again, the masses in this country have become jaded toward gruesome images.-
Agreed. They can judge her to be unworthy of life, but can't face the reality of it. They don't want to see pictures of aborted fetuses, either. Doesn't fit in with their so-called intellectualism.
Show me!
Aint that the truth!
I'd guess a couple weeks to a month.
Here's another over-the-top qualifier for the Whacko Hall of Fame.
I'd rather be burned alive then suffer the death Terri Schiavo is suffering, at least it would be quicker.
It is actually a benefit that cameras aren't allowed.
That way people can say she is bleeding from her eyes, and whatever other descriptives they chose to throw out there and who is to say other wise?
History has a tendency to repeat itself. AIT is not being dramatic.
I'd like to see some of the doctors trying this out on themselves and their loved ones. But that won't happen.
Why doesn't her husband just take a lie detector test & get this all over with?
You'd think that Halloween was early.
Because pain meds won't keep her alive and in fact I doubt he could even prevent it
I would prefer that Weller take a lie detector test.
Agree. I wonder if he will even attend the funeral?
No, Messys, we want to see the bare truth. If they were lying and a photo could prove it, then so be it.
You are quite right. One of them who slithers onto these threads fairly often has even said that the only reason Terri must be starved to death is because right to lifers have stood in the way of lethal injections. She insinuated it was our fault that Terri is suffering--twisted logic if ever there was any.
I think that would be excellent, both of them should. This is a person's life we are talking about.
Can't get through but they said I could report by FAX but when I press 1 I continue to hold. Do you know the FAX number?
Won't be any funeral, per plans. Only private cremation immediately upon death (what do you want to bet that Herr Greer enjoins the Medical Examiner from autopsy) and then ashes scattered on some Schiavo land in Pennsylvania.
Please See Post# 77
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