pg 182, George Felos's book, "Litigation as Spiritual Practice" (Blue Dolphin Publishing, 2002)
Judgenfuhrer Greer: "You think we are stupid? The autopsy report was done weeks ago."
Posted on 03/28/2005 3:39:06 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
Terri Schiavo, the badly brain damaged woman at the center of a national right to die debate, was near death and resting peacefully late Monday afternoon, her husband’s attorney said.
Attorney George Felos told reporters late Monday afternoon in Florida that Michael Schiavo has requested that Pinellas County’s chief medical examiner perform on autopsy on his wife once she dies in order to answer questions about the severity of brain damage and to put to rest rumors about her physical condition.
Meanwhile members of Schiavo’s family say the 41-year-old woman is still fighting to live, almost 11 days after the feeding tube that kept her alive for 15 years was removed.
“The look on her face is ‘please help me,’” said Schiavo’s sister, Suzanne Vitadamo.
Terri Schiavo is emaciated, but responsive, said her father Bob Schindler in a brief statement to reporters late Monday morning outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo has survived for almost 11 days without water or nutrition.
“She’s alive, she’s fighting like hell to live and she’s begging for help, ”Schindler told reporters.
“We haven’t given up on her and she hasn’t given up on us,” he said.
“She’s failing, but she’s still with us and she’s showing such a determination to live that its incredible”
Schindler likened his 41-year-old daughter’s appearance to that of a concentration camp inmate with sunken face and hollow eyes, and expressed fears that her death could come sooner because of the morphine she’s receiving to ease pain as her body fails.
“I have a grave concern that they’ll expedite the process to kill her with an overdose of morphine,” he said.
Felos countered the suggestion that Schiavo was receiving high doses of painkillers.
He cited records that indicated that Schiavo has received only two “minimal” 5 mg. doses of morphine over the weekend and said the woman is not on a morphine drip as had been reported earlier.
Fewer than ten protesters stayed through the night as rain and wind lashed the hospice in Pinellas Park.
One man was arrested before dawn trying to take a jug of water to Schiavo.
Doctors say a patient such as Schiavo could survive for as long as two weeks without water or nutrition, but 11 days after the removal of the tube, little time likely remains.
Schiavo's death is unlikely to end the feuding between the brain-damaged woman's family and her husband.
Both sides have battled for years over whether Schiavo lives or dies and now the two sides can't agree on what should happen to her body after death.
Schiavo’s parents had asked a court to allow Terri to be buried in Florida with her body intact, but the judge refused to intervene in Michael Schiavo's plans to have Terri cremated and interred in their native Pennsylvania.
The Schindlers also wanted to take photographs and video of their daughter before she dies, but Michael Schiavo opposed it and a judge has agreed with him.
Florida Governor Jeb Bush says his "heart is broken" about Terri Schiavo's plight, but Bush said he has to respect federal court rulings against reinserting the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube.
Bush said he hasn't seen "any means by which the executive branch can get involved."
Activists who want Schiavo’s feeding tube restored carried their fight Monday to the nation's capital.
Reverend Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition hoped to persuade congressional leaders to enforce a subpoena Congress issued earlier this month.
Congress won’t do that, but some members want to take a closer look at the rights of the disabled in wake of the case.
A Senate panel has changed the focus of a hearing scheduled for next month to include neurological and long-term care of disabled patients.
That hearing was originally scheduled to include appearances by Schiavo and her husband.
A House panel is also expected to hold hearings on long-term options for the disabled.
Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa is working on a bill that would allow federal court review in cases in which a disabled patient's wishes are unknown and family members can't agree.
The House has already passed similar legislation.
A Southern Baptist leader says the Florida judge who ordered the removal Schiavo's feeding tube has resigned his membership in a Southern Baptist church.
The Reverend Richard Land told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Judge George Greer and the Baptist church he attended in Clearwater came "to a mutual agreement that he resigned his membership."
The St. Petersburg Times says the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church wrote Greer a letter warning that, quote: "In all likelihood it is this case which will define your career and this case that you will remember in the waning days of life."
Here's an idea! Answer those questions before she dies!
I think I read somewhere that Greer had already ruled there would be no autopsy.
Judgenfuhrer Greer: "You think we are stupid? The autopsy report was done weeks ago."
No one disputes she has a damaged brain.
What is disputed is her mental state, which will not be shown in an autopsy.
I could not even imagine dieing like, or even wanting to die like that instead of being kept alive "artificially". Having someone take me out back and put me down would be better.
Poor lady, God have mercy on her.
Something about this whole thing reeks of cover up.
Is the medical examiner part of the Pinellas County house of corruption?
What is disputed is her mental state, which will not be shown in an autopsy.
Exactly. Of course MSM will trumpet autopsy proves she had brain damage and should therefore have been killed, just like what happened.
Autopsy should look at trauma of bones etc...
Any signs of abuse.
His enjoyment is palpable - Just wish he had advised his client to relinquish his guardianship or, failing that, supported a de novo proceeding under the aegis of another judge. The fact that none of things was done or even considered speaks volumes about this process, it's validity and the commitment of Felos and his Client to perpetrate this travesty and having others bend to their will at any cost.
On Fox News this morning, they said that Judge Greer's college roommate was Jim Morrison of The Doors. Imagine that!!!
I thought she was already dead, according to these guys. They say she was brain dead, right?
If this is true about the autopsy, someone other than a Pinellas County m.e. needs to perform it.
Bingo..we have a winner.
That whole bunch down there is so incestuous, with most being tied to the Scientology cult in Clearwater, that I wouldn't believe anything at this point. If Felos is this confident about the outcome of the autopsy, the results have been fixed, just like the court rulings.
As I said on an earlier thread, this will all come out one day when nurses and others start talking. Maybe I'm not being objective right now, but I've never seen one poor woman with so many cards stacked against her.
This has brought home more than anything just how many freepers are death_heads and differ not a whit from any typical Clinton or Kerry supporter in their core valuses and understanding of life and what it is to be conservative and believe in American values.
And if we have so many of these hurting ghouls in our midst, think about the rest of the populace who don't even think or pretend they are conservative.
It doesn't matter who does the autopsy, there will still be some doubting Thomas' who don't believe.
How can one request what is demanded by law? Florida's law says that anyone to be cremated is supposed to go through an autopsy.
Some prominent liberals have spoken out against this killing.
I don't really see this as a liberal/conservative issue.
Every day that passes in Terri's death struggle is one more damning indictment against everyone on connected to this case that has 'done their duty' according to the law. I can only hope that, someday, they are able to enjoy the same loving treatment under the law's generous protection.
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