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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I'm with you.
The parents really should have done all they could to get video footage of this. Had they done that, they would have surely moved public opinion.
I have a somewhat odd question.
I keep seeing Michael referred to as a "Sicilian".
I've never heard of any Italian names that begin with "Sch", only German ones.
What makes everyone believe he's Sicilian?
[and I'm married to a Sicilian who grew up in a nice "family" neighborhood in Federal Hill/Providence RI and he's never heard of an Italian with "Sch" at the beginning of their name, either]
This odd little detail keeps nagging at me.
Anybody got any insight?
I agree. There is something so malevolent about him. Maybe he'll have insulted some higher power so much that he'll end up like Ted Williams' son ended up in the months following this atrocity.
My mom, a native Italian, says Schiavo (skee.a.vo) means "slave" in Italian. We don't know where he is from, but she is horrified he is Italian.
He doesn't look like any Sicilian I've ever seen-- he looks like an Aryan agent of death.
Good night. Blessed Easter to you too.
Blessed Easter to you too sm :-)
Schiavo
ethnic name from schiavo ‘Slav’.
habitational name from Schiavo in Ardore, Reggio Calabria.
Thank you for the quick and detailed response....:)
Tell your dear mother that my husband is just as horrified by the genetic connection.
[actually he's cursing the mongrel to all manner of everlasting torment]...:))
As the article states, Terri's husband already had last rites performed for her. A subsequent communion hardly seems appropriate.
lol, my Mom too. Must be a cultural thing :-D
But, that's not the people he's speaking of. He's speaking of people who disagree with his opinion of Jeb Bush.
Try to keep up.
Depending on what race conquered what part of Italy in the dim and distant past, there are lots of blonde/blue-eyed [and red-haired] Italians, same as with Spaniards but Michael doesn't 'look Italian' to me either.
[maybe he takes after his mom, "Ilsa"]....LOL!
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