Posted on 03/26/2005 9:28:06 PM PST by ScaniaBoy
Edited on 03/26/2005 9:46:27 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
It is Michael Peterson Blake Schiavo who demanded she not be fed any other way than by a feeding tube.
Actually, I think Michael OJ Schiavo suffices perfectly.
A very powerful argument. Thanks for posting it.
I was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Hopefully my illness will not progress to the point where I can not swallow or speak. But if it does I know for sure I do not want to starve.
This evil legal precedent threatens every one of us.
Making Terri's death very horrible is what the Hemlock doctors and lawyers will use to advance assisted suicide ala Kevorkian...
The culture of death will become as American as apple pie..
imo
And yet, Terri Schiavo's fate hangs on something she supposedly said in passing while watching a TV show with her husband.
I wish she could have represented the Schindler's.
bttt
too upset to comment
except this
my wife who is a nurse says that she expects Terri will live and suffer for several more days, maybe even another week. she points out that Terri had a healthy body and weight. she had no damage to any vital organs, and was not known to have any infections.
its Easter Sunday already in the Holy Land, and most of the USA.
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I think it would be safe to assume that he regularly used her as a verbal punching bag. Can you imagine laying in a bed, listening to the ravings of a man blaming you for messing up his life and you can not say a word back to him?
Yep, real fine fellow that skunk is.
Today, Michaels brother said Terri and Michael discussed this together in the privacy of their own home, yet he and another testified they heard Terri say it. If it were a private, deliberate conversation, how did they hear it? Were they psychic????
Where did you hear it was in passing while they were watching TV? According to the brother, it was a serious conversation between the two.
Something about this whole thing really stinks. I believe most people, like with the OJ trial, can smell the evil.
I expect to hear from Geoff Fieger and Dr Jack (I think he's still in prison) soon.
At least assisted suicide got its ass kicked back in 98 here in Michigan. Small consolation. 2,116,154 to 859,381. And one of those 859,000 has switched his position since then. He learned.
Hey, wait a minute, I thought they heard Terri say that she didn't want a feeding tube inserted into her when they were standing over the open grave when everyone was throwing dirt into it.
She makes excellent points.
An elderly friend of the family is having s specialized shock treatment to overcome nerve damage which was preventing swallowing--not clear what the origin of the nerve damage was--came on fairly suddenly.
I think the shocks are no more than 25 milliamps and now half that. I forget how many sessions per week. Has made a world of difference for him.
Prayers,
"Terri Schiavo doesn't "need" a feeding tube. "
BINGO! That is exactly why Greer ruled that nourishment and hydration be withheld, i.e. not feed her by ANY means, intead of merely order the removal of the feeding tube, and let Terri live, if she can take water and nourishment by mouth.
This is a point that is mostly lost, and this makes it an even more aggregious murder.
"The culture of death will become as American as apple pie.. "
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Unfortunately, you are right.
Somewhat related article:
Elder abuse spreading as population ages in California
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371623/posts
"Elder abuse is often treated the way child abuse and domestic violence were handled until relatively recently, Wong said.
"Far too often it's been considered a family matter and not a crime," Osborn said. "
If they killed Terri, for being inconvenient, what do you think will happen as the baby boomers age?
When his own wife, Terri, made a throwaway comment to him – or so he claims – that should she ever be reduced to a severely disabled state that she would wish to die, Schiavo ran to fulfill her request. Unlike the Reeves who were put in a similar situation, in this particular exchange between wife and husband there was never an attempt to encourage Terri to embrace life
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368645/posts
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