Brain-damaged Terri Schiavo dies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4398131.stm ^

[ladiesview61]

I can barely find the words to express how horrible this is...what her mother must be feeling...God forbid someone try and take my child from me....how can this happen in this country. I have lost so much faith in the American people..i truly thought we were better than that. To take a living, breathing human being and starve her to death because her "quality of life" wasn't up to snuff, it's just beyond words. As a mother, I'm just so sad...

[lugsoul]

Just so we are clear that you were stating ASSUMPTION and SPECULATION rather than fact.

No, I wasn't there. But, then again, I wasn't posting about what happened in the room either...

[lugsoul]

"Since Michael has claimed that Terri has no awareness of those around her, why was it so important to Michale that her birth family be kept away at the moment of her passing?"

Maybe because, at the moment of his wife's passing, he didn't want to be in a room full of people who will go on national television and call him a murderer.

[lugsoul]

The answer to your first question is two years ago. The answer to your second is 3.

I don't care what you've seen before, and I don't care how many medical people you have in your family. That doesn't allow you to speculate what happened in that room and state it as fact.

[Chili Girl]

I heard a clip of Terri Schiavo speaking this morning on the Laura Ingraham show - saying yes and no about feeling pain - does anyone have that audio clip?

[metalmanx2j]

At least now she is with God, even if it was far before He needed her with Him. She was taken prematurely. I pray for her TRUE friends and family and all those who fought and prayed for her life.

[atlaw]

I don't care what you've seen before, and I don't care how many medical people you have in your family. That doesn't allow you to speculate what happened in that room and state it as fact.

Unless, of course, you're looking to enrage a lynch mob.

[Ebenezer]

Okay, now that bastard Michael "Bluebeard" Schiavo can marry his live-in. Good luck to the new wife, because she will surely need it.

The "Culture of Death" has scored one more point.

[atlaw]

Is this satire? If so, its more than a little callous. If not, please learn some facts about the case before spreading this kind of nonsense.

[Ebenezer]

Terri, may the angels carry you to glory of Heaven, the dwelling of the God of Mercy, the God of Life.

[Maria S]

"brain damaged. they can't write her name without first always saying brain damaged."


I could accept the 'brain damaged' part, because I think her brain probably was damaged. It was the "persistent vegetative state" that I hated to hear.

[andyk]

Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman

And I was getting so used to reading the "severely brain-damaged" mantra over and over.

This is truly a sad day. She was killed in a brutal, cold, calculated fashion.

[Aliska]

My heart is aching. I don't know what the future holds, but I hope there is a Christian memorial established for her and the name Schiavo is left off of it.

[The Duke]

A sad day - I certainly feel my own portoin of the national shame.

[BlackElk]

People only call Michael Schiavo, Judge Greer and the others responsible for this atrocity murderers because----they have carried out the particularly barbaric murder of Terry Schindler Schiavo.

A very long time ago a particularly wily snake convinced a woman related to us all that she and her husband should eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and that she and her husband would then be as gods(!). Very old trick. Obviously, it still works on Murderous Michael and his judicial sycophants and his supporters.

[Chili Girl]

No - this is not satire. I've been following Terri's case for a long time. I think the clip was done before she had dental work performed a few years ago. I think it was her Father who was asking, if Terri had pain in her leg, her ear, her mouth, etc. There was a very discernable difference in her 'yes' and 'no' answers.

[VietVet]

May God rest her soul.

One of my favorite authors hypothesizes that, after death, the first people we meet are the ones whom we have affected and effected in our life. I almost wish this could be so, for it would be poetic justice for Michael Scheivo to find, upon his death, that the first person he has to see, and make his peace with, is his late wife.

In any event, the entire case has now been moved to a Higher Court, one where lawyerly procedural tricks matter less than Justice. The parties concerned had better hope that this ultimate Justice will be tempered with more mercy than they were willing to show.

VietVet

[Saundra Duffy]

May God have mercy on those who participated in this murder of an innocent disabled woman.