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.
verity, the facts regarding what happens to human beings when they are dehydrated to death can be found anywhere.
But I don't trust you will actually read those facts, rather you will continue to dispute them to justify/sanction death via dehydration.
You should have added, "that's elementary, Watson!"
I don't beleive them. They are drama queens. There is no clinical reason for bleeding from the eyes or mouth. This is nonsense.
Just watch what happens here if she dies.
Many here, including myself, are convinced Terri was nowhere near 'vegetative' (as if a human could be a rutabaga).
Right now the deathists say no; persistent vegetative state is repeated ad infinitum.
Next time, when it's only someone's grandmother who is clearly responsive but not vocal, they'll justify that killing by suddenly remembering that Terri was not really vegetative.
That's why Terri is the perfect test case for the deathists. On the one hand, she's far enough gone that the people are divided about it, and they can slip this death in; on the other hand, she's functional enough that they can use her as a stepping stone to their next case.
We obviously need an anti-euthanasia bill passed on the national level. Stop the 'slippery slope' now (are human bones slippery? That's what this slope is made of). It fully lies within Congress' real constitutional powers to ensure that Life as well as Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are ensured.
If this was just hype, then Felos would have a photo taken of Terri and show us how crazy the Schindlers are. Show them to be liars.
But, there is no photo. Do you wonder why?
I don't.
Michael Schiavo
I cannot imagine that Heavenly Father is not boiling mad right now and ready to pour out His vengeance on all those who are responsible for subjecting our little Sister to this nightmare of injustice and torture. I cannot imagine it. "Come quickly, Lord Jesus."
You must be wrong because I could not find it on a cereal box.
If you cannot provide me a link to an authoritative medical text, play somewhere else.
There's not much time left to save Terri, but should she die, there is much that needs to be done to prevent this being done to others.
We need judicial reform. The legislative and executive branches must exert their co-equal status.
We need laws that prevent the withdrawal of hydration and nutrition without an advance directive, and that prevent a spouse from exercising medical oversight when the spouse has obvious, significant conflicts of interest, like a common-law wife.
Finally, we need judges and justices that will overturn abhorrent decisions like Cruzan and Roe.
Food and water are not medical care, and we cannot allow the "right-to-kill" crowd to misuse them as a means to carry out euthanasia by other means. That, more than anything else, is what this case is all about.
Bookmarked! Thank you for the ping. THOSE GHOULS !!!!!!!!!
Pinging "All" does not work.
Thank you MizSterious.
There was also a similar, if less public, form of execution practiced in darker centuries and that was to shackle and wall up the miscreant/unfortunate to starve and dehydrate behind a wall of bricks. Sometimes a small hole would be left so that the sadistic executioner could occasionary view or privately show the progress of death.
In Terri Shiavo's case however, it is behind a wall of uniformed Pinellas County police. And the sadistic executioner watches "at her side" as we are told, while allowing her loved ones occasional glimpses of the spectacle.
At least the Nazis eventually gassed most of their victims....
She is not a member of one of their constituencies.
My question is--how often does this happen? To be more precise, how often does this happen in Pinellas County, and how many of these cases might Greer have handled?
We must change the laws that permit this kind of torture.
"You can only just imagine the demons jumping up and down in glee."
Many of them right here on FR!
Here's another over-the-top qualifier for the Whacko Hall of Fame.
It is utterly fascinating where your comments turn up. Always in support of life. The weak. The defensless. Those who Christ would have defended.
Did you say you are a Catholic Deacon? Or was that just hype also?
I thought conservatives were for life.
Nothing like a 'real issue' to flush out all of the frauds. I mean whether we are for or against some tax hike or spending bill is utterly trivial compared to this issue. Let me repeat here what the greatest conservative of my lifetime thought:
Ronald Reagan's record reveals that no issue was of greater importance to him than the dignity and sanctity of all human life. "My administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land," he said in 1983. "And there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning." One of the things he regretted most at the completion of his presidency in 1989, he told me, was that politics and circumstances had prevented him from making more progress in restoring protection for unborn human life.
Excerpted from "For Reagan, All Life Was Sacred" By WILLIAM P. CLARK
Joining you in Prayer. Amen
And you call yourself a Catholic?
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