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"Frankly when I saw her ... she looked beautiful. In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo, I've never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her. Mrs. Schiavo's death is not imminent by any means," he [Felos] said.

This ghoul... this pompous, sick sadistic piece of lizard feces... Isn't it wonderful, everyone? Terri might "live" in this state of peace and beauty for days more! Let's all have a drink and celebrate!

I heard this too, and it just makes me sick. Since she's looking so "beautiful" and she's got such a wonderful "look of peace and beauty" about her, I think that we should demand to see current photos of Terri.

Frankly, I am speechless at the audacity and sheer evil of what he's saying.

My step-mother's father went through exactly this sort of death, at his explicit request. He was in his mid-80's, his kidneys had failed, he was tired of the nearly continuous dialasis, and he wanted to join his wife. The Drs had said that they could probably keep him alive for another month or two, but he really didn't want to. In fact, he refused any food or water when offered, but did accept pain medications. The pain meds were the reason that he died peacefully, but he didn't die with a "look of peace and beauty." When he died, he looked horrific.

Mark

Bad as felos may be, here's a partial transcript from Rush of another trailbrazer for Death. Almost threw up hearing it.

All right. Let's go back to the TV show. Rush Limbaugh, the TV show in 1996, National Press Club, Jack Kevorkian discussed the dignity in which people die with his assistance versus the dignity in which some other people die.

KEVORKIAN: Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ. Was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet, bleeding for three or four days and slowly dying? With people jabbing spears into your side and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van (laughter) with people around him who loved him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. My rusty van.

RUSH: This is Dr. Death, Dr. Kevorkian, making the case for his euthanasia movement which was to take people who weren't even terminally ill and talk them into dying and take them into his van and he would inject them. I forgot his method. But I don't know that everybody's ever really talked about crucifixion as dignified. That is mystifying for me. But let's move on here. Here is Dr. Death, another portion of that audio, the National Press Club, 1996.

KEVORKIAN: God sets things in motion and then hands off. Let humans run it. And that's why he set this country up the way it was. Hands-off? The Pope has got his hands on our neck. He's wringing it. Now, I'm not anti-Pope. Basically he can do whatever he wants and say whatever he wants. But I think he's got a grip on our government. I know he has a grip on the Michigan Supreme Court. Grip? He owns it. I know he's got a grip on our Supreme Court. Therefore, I don't care what any Supreme Court says. I don't care what any legislature does. Pass any law you want. I don't care.

RUSH: Here's your modern icon. This is the modern icon of the Culture of Death movement. Here he is, Dr. Death, Jack Kevorkian. Let's listen to one more from this speech. It happened July 29th, 1996 at the National Press Club, and the audience is members of the media. They're the ones who are laughing.

KEVORKIAN: We're trained to lie as we get older. That's the way you survive. That's the grief that society is lying. To yourselves and to others. And the epitome of lying is in the epitome of society, the government. I don't think what I've said is wrong so far. If there's any disagreement I'll hear about it later. These questions I'm asking, "Does that baboon heart become sacred?" You can't answer it. Why not? You know what sanctity is, don't you? Can the body be partly sacred? Is the fecal material in your intestines sacred? You're a human body. You're a biological organism like every other biological organism. You bleed when you cut and when you die you stink. Now, what's sacred about that?

RUSH: So you forgot about this? (asking staff) You forgot? A lot of people have forgotten because this is so unpleasant to remember. Who wants to run around remembering this kind of stuff? This is the modern hero of the Culture of Death movement, Dr. Jack Kevorkian -- and he epitomizes here what Podhoretz has said. We're just biological machines, miracles, we're all the same. We stink when we die. Dignified? What, what, what, what, what? So I play this. I just want to you find out the mind-set of people, and this guy's clearly unafraid to tell us what he thinks, which is a service. But it's clearly an illustration of some of the thinking that goes on about life and death among some of us, particularly our secularists, in this culture.