Posted on 04/02/2005 7:17:15 PM PST by FairOpinion
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Legal setbacks for Terri Schiavo's parents continue even after the brain-damaged woman's death.
The Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office denied the parents' request to have independent medical experts observe Schiavo's autopsy has been denied.
Over their seven-years-long legal battle, Bob and Mary Schindler sought independent investigation of their daughter's condition. They wanted to select a neuropathologist and a forensic expert to observe her autopsy.
The autopsy was completed yesterday. Results are not expected for several weeks.
Terri Schiavo's body was cremated today. Her husband plans to bury her remains in a family plot in Pennsylvania. He is required to tell the Schindlers about any memorial services he plans for her, and where the ashes are interred.
The Schindlers have planned their own memorial service for their daughter Tuesday night in Gulfport.
Happening right here now!
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And why is that? You are whistling past the the graveyard my friend.
Neither was Nazi Germany in one fell swoop.
He started small - and then gained steam because of naive people - and probably many good people - who simply couldn't conceive of where the first step of getting rid of the unfortunates would lead. When a society allows such evil to happen - it's inevitable it will go downhill from there.
Every society has the "Nazi" personality in it. (One doesn't have to call themselves a Nazi to be one!) The only thing that keeps them in check is the right laws. If they can knock a hole in those - anarchy will break out and not be easily quelled.
In Russia, 1917, it was the REDS - and Communism was born. In Germany, early 1930's, the Nazi movement began.) Again, study the histories.
It's already been cremated. In fact, the autopsy was cremated.
YES
Why don't you stick to speaking your mind and not telling other what they can talk about.
Of course it's not just you.
There were millions who didn't see where Hitler was heading either until it too latte for millions.
Do you think we should just shrug our shoulders and 'move on?"Hopefully, no country will be asleep at the wheel like that again - only to wake up when it's everlastingly too late.
YOU did hijack the thread for your own self indulgent purposes. Admit it. The subject of the thread is a creeping illegality and possible systematic wrongdoing, not your sensitivities.
It does not. It would make zero sense for so many people to expend so much effort to kill one woman unless it were part of some larger plot. I don't know whether the intended size of the victim pool numbers in the hundreds, thousands, or millions, but it's not just Terri--not by a long shot.
Although I do not doubt that Terri was substantially brain damaged, the legal mechanisms in place don't really require that. Any ward whom a guardian could pump full of drugs could be rendered 'PVS' and have some phony 'wishes' attributed to them to justify their murder. A "friendly" ME would be required to help justify the PVS claims post-mortem, but if outside observers can be blocked that shouldn't be a problem.
There have already been a number of exposés of cases where people have been declared incompetant and been robbed by 'gaurdians'. Mix that in with the ability for guardians to kill off their wards, and things start to look incredibly scary. Of course some people will be protected by the state. But others...
I don't believe this country is likely to crank up its death machinery to the level achieved in Nazi Germany. But since murder can be committed in broad daylight, I'd say we're much too close for comfort.
and just as many non-Jews were killed - NONE OF THEM SHOULD HAVE BEEN - BUT
if you really think Nazi Germany was a unique event - you really do need to do some in depth history reading!
People with blinders on are guilty-by-default when such "uniqueness" breaks out
"Why don't you stick to speaking your mind and not telling other what they can talk about."
Did you overlook the fact that a quarter of the last 100 comments are from someone who keeps telling others what they can (or more appropriately can't) talk about, when all they were doing is speaking their own minds?
Not even that. It could be attributed to "unknown causes." PVS (or so called PVS) doesn't require visible brain damage.
Hot steel on target.
Terri's cause is not unique. Her cause - and Robert Wendland's "cause" is our cause too - and the millions that will die in the future in the same manner if we don't stop it now...
Terri was our wake up call and to just sigh and go on our way with blinders on is to let her have died a horrific death in vain.
I understand that from your dozens of posts on this thread. Your feelings about seeing the pictures are quite understandable. That does not change the fact that you have taken over this thread about the need for an honest medical examination because of your own hurt feelings.
If you are so upset, start a vanity thread and explain how these pictures and comparisons may not serve Terri and Terri's case very well, in your opinion. That really would be the place for all your injured sensibilities.
We all know how you feel by now, start a thread on it. It would be a very good one ...... elsewhere. It is obviously a very debatable issue.
There have been some very close calls like Robert Wendland, who woke up from a coma to an aware, if mentally retarded, state and was almost offed by the courts at his wife's request, and horrifying tales like Marjorie Nighbert, who asked for food in vain after people thought she had wanted to be starved.
I would say that nobody who is aware enough to express interest in food and drink should be starved if he or she expresses such interest. "Competent" or not.
Right.
Bullshit! Starving anyone to death seems Nazi like to me. Hell, Stalin fits into this picture as well.
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