Posted on 03/26/2005 7:20:40 PM PST by 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.
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Okay, so now where did this story come from? Or do I have to give you credit for making it up?
Mrs. Schiavo has received Holy Communion and The Last Rites, before the tube was disconnected. Do you have a credible source documenting otherwise?
LOL! Of course they will...there are two U.S. Marshals guarding him from the wingnuts who want this to be a dictatorship or monarchy ruled by muscle, rather than a republic ruled by law! They won't have far to look!
The wills and estate is one of the most ancient and most litigated branch of the law. Yey after centuries of wills being adjudicated upon,we have yet to come up with a boiler plate one.
Can Terri's parents file a wrongful death suit after Terri's death?
I don't understand how people can miss it. Watching Felos get excited while describing with glee the last breaths of a dying person, and his obvious anticipation of witnessing it again,I saw evil so clearly I felt sick in my stomach.
I undestand now when it's said evil is the denial of death.
What hyperbole? There is none in the statement you copied.
And I never even remotely implied that Terri's life is 'not worth living' nor that it was right to murder her.
Unless you actually read what I say, and respond to it, there is no point in continuing this conversation.
I'm on your side of the argument........just opposed to inaccurate emotional rhetoric.
You can say whatever you want within the FR rules. You just can't expect people to swallow your extremist rhetoric without criticism.
In case you don't understand that freedom of speech is not just for you, you need to try to understand that others have the right to disagree with you and say so.
That being said, these culture of death murderers' not allowing Terri to receive Communion today are, IMO, abominable.
I thought they gave her last rites but no communion.
(And even presuming that it's true, is being bulimic a reason to murder someone?)
All the rest about Mr. Schindler is purely fiction, so it cannot be used in a responsible dialogue.
Finally, who is it who defines "full life?" Is someone not living a full life who has no use of arms or legs? Is someone not living a full life whose IQ is below average? Is someone not living a full life whose personality has changed following a stroke, or because of disease?
Do you seriously want a Judge Greer deciding if you have a "full life?"
Unless it is written on a legal affidavit, it MUST not be permissible to take the life of a healthy person. Terri was healthy until she began to starve and become dehydrated. She may have never had what you believe to be a "full life" but that gives no one the right to take it from her, and give her family no legal recourse to stop it.
This is beyond doubt, barbaric, and every legal resource needs to be used to keep this from ever happening again in America.
It is my understanding that they gave her last rites before they began to starve her to death, but refused to give Communion today.
You are denying Mr. Schindler's rough treatment of Mrs. Schiavo???? It's spoken of even in articles by those who would keep her alive!
To call it "pure fiction" shows that you don't want to discuss reality.
Besides, you think accusing people of murder is any less inflamatory than calling them a Nazi?!?
Taking a person's life when he/she is not dying, and there is no written proof (i.e. signed, legal, witnessed affadavit) that he/she "wouldn't want to live that way" IS murder.
It's not inflammatory. It's just fact.
How to put this clinicly....and not get removed from the board...
He is REALLLLLY, enjoying himself....
I understand your point.
I have heard conflicting comments about any possible bulimia. Do you have medical documentation that Terri actually had it, or is it uncorroborated hearsay from Michael, as her wish to die under these circumstances is?
You presentation of information as a stand alone issue causes you to very much look anti-Catholic.
It would be the same as if a Catholic used a piece of information about your faith and without researching used it to his or her own way, as a tool, so to speak.
It is terribly harming to intimate that Terri has a rite offered up to her that has not been.
The MS death squad has more than enough of the MSM spreading that type of disinformation.
Christians do not need to be doing it, too.
In case you don't understand that freedom of speech is not just for you, you need to try to understand that others have the right to disagree with you and say so.
I never said it was. You did.
I should have taken my own advice from a couple of days ago. It's much wiser to ignore irrational posters rather than trying to discuss things with them.
Good bye, Jon.
MS has finally allowed Terri to receive Communion.
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