Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Who is Terri Schiavo
MSNBC.com ^ | 3/25/05 | Jennifer Frey

Posted on 03/28/2005 5:12:30 PM PST by Maurice1962

WASHINGTON - She was a girl who laughed easily at her uncle's lame jokes. A girl so naive that she wrote to John Denver, asking him to come sing at her wedding, who went to Disney World for her honeymoon and believed that a good life meant that one day she'd be able to vacation there every year with her kids.

She was a girl who loved animals and worshiped cute television stars, paying homage to heartthrobs Starsky and Hutch by naming two gerbils after them. She daydreamed about working for a veterinarian when she grew up, or maybe just being a dog groomer.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: humanrights; terrischiavo
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-156 next last
To: sponge_worthy
There is no reason and there is no consipiracy. It's a classic example of Occam's Razor. Her husband and the courts are simply fullfilling her wish to die with dignity instead of becoming a media freak-show.

Occam's razor would suggest that Michael et al. would not act as they have without a strong motive for killing Terri. But if one hypothesises that they never believed Terri's condition was as hopeless as they claimed but had to prevent discovery of the ongoing fraud against the court, their actions make perfect sense.

21 posted on 03/28/2005 5:35:25 PM PST by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: sponge_worthy

????????????And the right that should never be taken away is her right to die with dignity which is what she wanted. ????????????

What planet are you living on?? After 7 years Schiavo concocted this bogus story. Nothing written, nothing recorded, nothing....

Starvation and dehydration are far from dignified.


22 posted on 03/28/2005 5:35:45 PM PST by Maurice1962 (Just Got To Believe In Miracles)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

Comment #23 Removed by Moderator

To: Maurice1962

I have to say, I was never really big on the "Michael Shiavo tried to kill her story", but after reading this, there are so many signs that Michael's hell-bent state to have her die may have everything to do with destorying evidence.


24 posted on 03/28/2005 5:38:11 PM PST by mabelkitty (Blackwell for Governor in 2006!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #25 Removed by Moderator

To: sponge_worthy; Admin Moderator
You signed up today to post your drivel?

Troll alert.

26 posted on 03/28/2005 5:42:08 PM PST by brewcrew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: sponge_worthy
Hey, spongehead. SHE is innocent. But then you know that.
27 posted on 03/28/2005 5:42:30 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: sponge_worthy

Here's what I think:
The two sides of the family hate each other - that's a given. The real and varied reasons may never be known to us, (I'm sure there's more than we know). Add to this volatile situation politically partisan organizations and money, not to mention power, and you have more than one battle going on. There really are many different fights being deliberately boiled down to Terri Schiavo - live or die.
The people behind the scenes pulling the strings are kept well out of sight - are we playing into their hands? Who knows, but things are never as they seem on the surface.


28 posted on 03/28/2005 5:43:32 PM PST by mabelkitty (Blackwell for Governor in 2006!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: sponge_worthy


Fine. I recommend you get a living will and designate Judge Greer or MS as the objective party.


29 posted on 03/28/2005 5:43:40 PM PST by Kings18-37
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: ace2u_in_MD; kristinn

.

Negative.

At his 1st TERRI Hearing the CLINTON-Appointed Federal Judge was informed about new TERRI evidence and the 22 witnesses waiting to testify before him on TERRI's behalf, as the U.S. Congress had decreed he should, and this Federal Judge would have none of it.

NONE, as the CLINTONS just smiled away and TERRI inched away towards her Death.

BUSH will now correctly force-feed his clear-seeing Judicial Appointments right down the U.S. Senate's throat, quickly.

.


30 posted on 03/28/2005 5:45:39 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: brewcrew

Troll alert is right. This sponge_wad is going from thread to thread spreading vicious innuendos against Terri and her supporters. He/she/it has no clue about the case. Not the first inkling.


31 posted on 03/28/2005 5:46:13 PM PST by TigersEye (Are your parents Pro-Choice? I guess you got lucky! ... Is your spouse?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: sponge_worthy

"Psst, don't tell anyone.....word is......sponges are gay!"


32 posted on 03/28/2005 5:51:06 PM PST by digger48
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Maurice1962
She was a girl who laughed easily at her uncle's lame jokes.

It's all in the past tense. I'd like to think there's still time to save her.

33 posted on 03/28/2005 5:53:25 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Maurice1962
To me, Theresa Schindler-Schiavo and a newborn have a lot in common. Neither can speak. Neither can eat unassisted. Both need their butts wiped. Both are healthy otherwise. Both, IMHO, have a right to continue living.

Now that a county judge has ordered the death of Terri Schiavo because she needs extraordinary methods for nutrition, how much farther down the road will it be that the baby bottle will be considered 'extraordinary method for nutrition?'

34 posted on 03/28/2005 5:53:42 PM PST by eeriegeno
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: supercat
More to the point, the prohibition of oral feeding goes far beyond ending artificial life support. Had the parents been allowed to attempt oral feeding, and been told that if they succeeded Terri could live with them, I would not have had such a strong opposition to discontinuing gastrostomic feeding (largely because Terri probably could have eaten by mouth). But Greer's order would kill anyone upon whom it was enforced. As the order was written, even if Terri had gotten up the strength to get herself a glass of water she would still have been denied it.

AND THIS may have been the point upon which action from the federal level, or even the state level could have taken place.

The Florida law now classifies a feeding tube as 'life support,' and it was this that allowed Greer to order it removed.

But Greer ALSO ordered that there would be no oral feeding. In short, oral feeding must also be considered an extraordinary measure of 'life support.'

But, if that's true, WE'RE ALL on life support. Greer expands the meaning of the law, and exceeds his authority-- either that, or we're all ripe targets for a court order to keep us from food or water.

I'd suggest that Judge Reaper exceeded his authority, and THAT would be grounds to seize Terri and null the order.

35 posted on 03/28/2005 5:54:44 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: sponge_worthy

"There is no reason and there is no consipiracy. It's a classic example of Occam's Razor. Her husband and the courts are simply fullfilling her wish to die with dignity instead of becoming a media freak-show."

Kindly cite a legal document, or written document, or a witness that stated for a fact that she said, or had witnessed a legal document that said that, and not her "husband" who suddenly remnember that she had said same 7 years, ex post facto.


36 posted on 03/28/2005 5:55:37 PM PST by alarm rider
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: brewcrew
You signed up today to post your drivel? Troll alert.

Nah. Spongy is George Felos.

Proof? Sponges are invertebrates.

37 posted on 03/28/2005 5:55:58 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Maurice1962

She has become a poster child for everything that is wrong in America, on both sides of the issue!
Nobody is going to win.


38 posted on 03/28/2005 5:56:14 PM PST by o_zarkman44
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sponge_worthy
"And the right that should never be taken away is her right to die with dignity which is what she wanted."

This is dignity? The lawyer who helped starve her to death stands by her deathbed and then announces to the public her condition, is DIGNITY?

Terri Schiavo should die on the merits of somebody's f---ing HEARSAY???

Why don't you go crawl back in the hole you came out of and keep your sick comments to yourself?

39 posted on 03/28/2005 5:58:39 PM PST by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" - Pope Urban II, 1097 A.D.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: o_zarkman44
She has become a poster child for everything that is wrong in America, on both sides of the issue! Nobody is going to win.

That's the thing about the collapse of civilization. Nobody comes out ahead.

40 posted on 03/28/2005 5:59:11 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-156 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson