After Defeats Schiavo Parents Tell Supporters Go Home

AP - Yahoo ^ | March 26, 2005 | Jane Sutton

[EveningStar]

Bob and Mary Schindler, both practicing Catholics, urged dozens of supporters gathered outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo is being cared for to go home for Easter.

"The family would request that everyone go home, be with your children, hold them close and share every moment you have with them," said Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk who is a spiritual adviser to the Schindlers.

It was not clear if the Schindlers had finally abandoned all legal avenues in their fight to restart their 41-year-old daughter's feeding, a cause that embroiled the Florida legislature, the U.S. Congress and President Bush.

[Aussie Dasher]

Can't say I have. Can't say I want to. Evil oozes from every pore in his skin.

[mother22wife21]

Good Point. I don't think that when people compare this situation to that of Nazi Germany that they mean that what is happening to Terri is equivalent to the full blown atrocities. I think what they are trying to express is this is a representative case that exposes the flaws of the system that makes us vulnerable. That vulnerability is like the sound of the dinner bell to the ravening wolves of the death culture.
Those who have no moral compass or are not prepared to judge this as a murder morally are the scariest ones on these threads. You must first be capable of identifying an evil, before you can go about changing it's support.

[UltraKonservativen]

WELCOME TO DANTE'S INFERNO DEATHOCRAT LEVEL.

[MSCASEY]

A father in Germany wanted his child dead because of the child's defects. Shortly after that they began with anyone that was disabled and did not fit their ideas of what a person should be. Read the history and see the parallels that are occurring here. Very sad!

MCD

[maica]

.Where is the ALCU and the Libertarians now?

^^^^

A rep from the ACLU has been in the courtroom with Felos for the past few weeks, and who knows how long before this. Apparently Michael's "right" to off his wife trumps her right to breathe and receive nourishment.

[ohioWfan]

Darkness has been over us since 1973. Pray for this nation.

[BlackRain]

Terri's Parent Had Claimed Terri was in PVS

Schiavo and the Schindlers agreed on one major point in the 2000 testimony: the extent of Terri's brain damage, according to additional court documents cited by The Miami Herald. In the documents, Pamela Campbell, then the Schindlers' lawyer, told the court that "we do not doubt that she's in a persistent vegetative state."

Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=9&u=/usatoday/feudmaybeasmuchovermoneyasprinciple

[mother22wife21]

I know.

To maintain, "NO, NO it couldn't happen here" is being overly emotional. It can happen anywhere, and it is begining to happen here.

[MSCASEY]

I remember hearing about the watts riots when I was young. And when I grew up and never believed such behavior could occur in this day and age. I was in the West end of the valley when the Rodney King riots broke out. I was amazed. They did stop them in the east valley but by that time I took my son who was about a year old and headed up to the Ventura area.

I was truly shocked. And seeing this is shocking also. MCD

[Peach]

Huge difference Dolphy. Just huge. Thanks for that ping. I always like to see how other freepers are viewing things.

[expatguy]

How things are being viewed where I live

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1371677/posts

[maica]

outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo is being cared for

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Cared for? If she were being cared for she would have her feeding tubes back in.


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We must remember that hospices are set up to assist people in their FINAL days. They specifically are not set up to keep someone alive and stimulated. I bet that the staff there are very resentful of Terri's presence, and all the "burdens" that she, MS, etc have brought into their facility.

I bet any nurse or assistant who felt compassion for the living Terri was reassigned or quit.

I believe that the legal ghouls who wish her dead, are convinced that she is PVS because "anyone with a brain could not have survived the treatment they ordered for her."

Therefore, to them, anyone who brings "evidence" of brain function is lying or imagining it.

[MeekOneGOP]

:^)

[maica]

Terri and the Schindlers were the marks for this sting.


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Soundbites rule these days, and yours is the best I have seen to describe what is happening. They never had a chance.

[mother22wife21]

Thank Goodness you got your son out.

I know what you mean about the Rodney King riots. They scared me. I was finishing up my Geography degree at UNC-Greensboro in North Carolina at the time and we had a "heightened" campus police presence during that time.

I was absolutely shocked by the sense of entitlement the rioters exhibited. They seemed to think their frustration and disappointment entitled them to destroy, loot, and assault and batter innocent people.

[MeekOneGOP]

Happy Easter. :^)

[maica]

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE HAVE A GASSTROSTOMY PULLED AND STARVED TO DEATH,


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I am sure that the tube was removed for two reasons -

1) To prohibit any "illegal" administration of liquid, and

2) so that the uninformed will believe that she was only alive because she was connected to something. Hence, the expression "pulling the plug."

Any terminal patient would not undergo an unnecessary procedure to remove the tube. It would just be clamped and removed as part of the post mortem procedures.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

Yes I would appreciate the text of the speech. Thanks.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. :^)

Someone Freep mailed that to me early this morning. I'd seen that site before, but when I went there this morning, I left it going and it played over and over for maybe an hour. It's really nice.

My Mom passed away four years ago, this last Jan. 31st. I dreamed about her again last night. She was talkin' to me. It was a nice dream, as always.

[Bahbah]

I sent it to your FReepmail.