Posted on 03/26/2005 10:56:04 PM PST by Deo volente
(Attorney)Weller said Terri cried when her mother hugged her Saturday night. "She knows what's going on. She was trying to vocalize something with Mary."
"The governor should know that Terri still knows who her mother is, and she's extremely distressed," Weller said. "She's not a vegetable who doesn't know what is happening."
Paul O'Donnell, a Roman Catholic Franciscan monk, said the family unsuccessfully urged Michael Schiavo to allow his wife the sacrament of communion during the holiest feast of the Catholic year. She received last rites the day the feeding tube was pulled.
"This is in violation of her religious rights and freedoms and allows the governor to ... intervene," O'Donnell said, repeating the family's request that the governor take Schiavo into protective custody. "We beg you to have courage and take action."
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Haha... I bet we act very different hough! (I'm a bitter, angry guy sometimes...)
One pointy-headed finger-wagging type said I was ignorant on several levels for saying she was handicapped, not sick.
Prescicly and that is the key
March 26, 2005 11:00 PM ET
Dearest Friends of Terri,
I am very distraught this evening. I have contemplated whether to send this information to the people who have remained steadfast and very dedicated in their fight to free Terri from her captors. However, after great consideration, I feel it is only right that I share with you, Terri's supporters, the information I have been given to me this evening by Terri's family.
As we all have come to know, Terri Schindler is a strong woman who has an incredible will to live. Despite the daily inhumane torture that is inflicted upon her by estranged spouse, Michael Schiavo, (the man who has allowed her to lay in a bed with no food and water for the past eight days,) she has been fighting very hard to remain alive. Last Friday, in spite of her not being permitted therapy since 1993, Terri even tried to articulate the words "I Waaaaaa " in a very loud voice, in response to Attorney Weller saying to her, "all you have to do Terri, is tell us you want to live, and this whole thing can be over Terri."
Under normal circumstances, considering how well hydrated and nourished Terri has been due to receiving the balanced nutritional elements in enteral feedings, it would seem reasonable for Terri to live for another week, or so. However, what was reported by her family tonight, has presented my worst fears. Terri's breathing has changed and has recently become very labored. I am assuming this is happening so quickly because of the possible initiation of Woodside's "exit protocol." A protocol which delivers to her nebulized morphine, a narcotic which suppresses respirations. (see attached pdf exit protocol) The "exit protocol" was obviously written to enhance her death process. Woodside claims Morphine was to be administered to provide her with so-called "comfort" measures. Odd, however, they would find it necessary to administer Morphine to a patient who Schiavo and Felos have declared all along has no pain, is without any feelings, and is brain dead. Go figure!
In simple English, it appears they are killing Terri faster than she has the ability to fight to stay alive any longer. Terri's family are physically and emotionally worn out. They feel disappointed and deserted by government leaders who they once supported. They pleaded for help from them to save their daughters life, but were repeatedly turned down by judges who chose to err on the side of death, as opposed to life. Sadly, leaving them alone to stand by and witness their daughter fighting against the inhumane death of starvation and dehydration.
The callous, cruel and bizarre behaviors we have also witnessed from Schiavo in his determination to rapidly kill the wife he claims to love; leads us to assume he may now be on a rapid mission to leave Terri's parents with the memory of her death on Easter.
Please pray that God continues to protect Terri. Pray that He will provide Terri with peace as she struggles to take her final breaths. Please pray that He allows her family to feel confident that they did everything possible to save her life. Please pray that He allows them to know how much she loves them for the valiant fight they have made on her behalf. Please pray that if Terri is forced to take her final breaths, it can be with her family by her bedside and not Michael Schiavo. Pray that someday soon she will be capable of inhaling the beauty of LIFE, in a place where no more harm will come to her.
As Terri now lays taking labored breaths, I myself, am given a sense of peace in knowing if she dies, she will soon be free from Michael ever bringing harm to her again. I will no longer have to worry about what he may do to her; or, how she has had to stay locked up in a room away from her family and the beautiful sounds of the earth we all are able to enjoy every day. I will pray for each of you that you find peace within yourself in knowing you have helped Terri in your own special way.
In the meantime, please know, for as long as Terri is alive and fighting, I will continue to pray for a miracle and will keep on fighting for her until her final breaths are taken. I ask that you all join me in doing the same.
Thank you so much for being an enormous strength for Terri's family. They continue to appreciate the love and dedication you continue to show to Terri, and to each of them.
I will keep you posted.
Respectfully, and with great admiration.
Cheryl Ford RN
Fight4Terri@aol.com
You're saying what a lot of others feel but are afraid to say. The facts may be in dispute, but one fact of somebody killing an innocent person before the truth can be deciphered is clear. The only realistic way this woman's life will be saved is if custody is diverted to her parents. Salvaging the judiciary will be much more complex than saving Terri Shiavo's life.
History is repeating itself all over again.
Sorry, I'm not a Catholic and don't believe that praying for dead people does anything, especially miracles.
Not meant to be offensive, to each his own, I just never quite understood why people should pray for someone already in heaven and how that person moves God hand to perform a miracle when God is sovereign.
She is not being killed for practicing her Christian faith. This is not martyrdom for which a person becomes a saint.
I'm curious, What do you think others will be inspired to do?
Praying for her will produce visions and miracles? This sounds like you would turn Terri into an idol to be worshipped.
How does this glorify God?
Is this orthodox Catholic belief?
If so, only to deride it.
I don't think it does as much for them as it does for the people praying. I also don't think that verbal praying does anything, rather it's the 'Holy Spirit' in us that makes a difference. You're right, it flies in the face of never questioning God to even "ask Him" for something.
People seem very misguided, I think-- it's like they're praying to Santa Clause to bring a special present. They should instead be praying that whatever happens, that they will accept it and trust God no matter how outrageous the circumstance.
My thoughts exactly!!
Notwithstanding...
"This is not martyrdom for which a person becomes a saint."
I didn't suggest Sainthood.
"I'm curious, What do you think others will be inspired to do?"
What do you think? Watch more Rikki Lake?
"Praying for her will produce visions and miracles?"
Yes, as prayer has been known to do just that. (But obviously we need to wait and see...)
"This sounds like you would turn Terri into an idol to be worshipped."
We don't pray to her, we pray for her.
"How does this glorify God?"
The specific question was why would the Vatican so bless her - what's the purpose. The purpose of everything we do - everything - is for God's glory.
"Is this orthodox Catholic belief?"
Roman. I don't know what 'orthodox Catholic' means, but the term itself is misleading, as only the Roman brand originates from Rome of course.
Wow. I appreciate you standing up like this, but dang - what did I ever do to you? LOL
Well, I don't know Terri, so I couldn't tell you if she is a "fringer" or not, and quite frankly it doesn't matter. This argument you and I are having isn't about Terri - it's about YOU.
But, go ahead and hide behind a dying starving woman, and pretend that it makes you so much better than everyone else.
No, you are certainly in the minority - a lot more of us actually want to work for change within the system, not "subvert" it as you so chose to say. What it boils down to is that your cheap shots, lies, smears, and extremist position about subverting the system means that you have gone so far to the right, you've come right back around on the left.
Subvert the system. Are you nuts?
I think that Herr Schiavo is a real pig and for him to impune his wife's physicality is bad enough, but for him to also impune his wife's soul, I think is especially egregious.
Yep. He thinks that this whole thing will just go away after she dies but he is highly mistaken. He has personally opened something that he will never, ever be able to shake.
He is now a media hog and will keep trying to get his daily fix. I personally hope he runs for office on a democratic ticket.
Terri has already had Viaticum.
I'm not entirely sure about the "proper" way to go about a ping-list, but here's my take:
Copy the names of those who join into your profile (or other easy to access script) and give it a name.
Check out my profile (very bottom) I just copy/paste the names in there to the "To:" box and type away in the relply.
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