Jiminy Cricket: "Conscience in Florida? Nope. No way
I was thrown out.
Boycott Florida until Greer is impeached."
Posted on 04/03/2005 8:53:52 AM PDT by Daisy4
By each and every account I have read Terri Schiavo was very close to her family. I doubt very much her wishes would include denying them the small comforts they have sought.
The young are not very informed catholics. Cremation is only allowed for catholics for sufficient reason.
I don't see sufficient reason in this case. To me, it is an unjustified slap in the face of the entire Catholic Church.
A compassionate lawyer might pay himself to respect his opponents' religion.
Freepers alone could have raised the money for a simple catholic funeral and burial and probably would have, and there would have been many others.
I think if the husband had decided not to cremate her and cried "can't afford it", his friends would have come to the rescue financially if it fit their agenda.
And if my wife sends my carcass off to the taxidermist to be stuffed and weather-proofed, so she can stand me out in the front yard to perpetually greet the neighbors, that would be okay?
In days of old, people had multiple wives, and loved them all.
In fact, polygamy is still practiced in one state.
He pulled her tube because she is brain dead, and doesn't want her to suffer any longer. That verdict has been out there since 1990.
There is no money motive, because there is no money.
He moved in with another woman, see above, and big deal. His wife is dead, he has needs. It doesn't mean he doesn't and didn't care for her.
It was her father who started the litigations at first.
The doctors say she is not concious, her cerebral cortex is missing, he believes them as well, and based his actions on it.
No amount of saying she is aware can overide the fact that you need a cerebal cortex to transmit signals from any brain bit which could still be there (but isn't)
That is what he based his actions on.
I guess the autopsy will prove the doctors right, then what?
I guess we will see soon enough.
No amount of speculation is going to resolve anything, so there is no point in hashing over the same stuff day after day.
Some of it seems a little crass in hindsight, but the love which prompted the artifacts and artwork being created in the first place were genuine.
ok, I can buy that. So why didn't they take a snip before? Why wait till the very last, just to make a big stink?
"Maybe his conscience is getting to him"
I hope it takes more than this to ease his "non-conscience."
NOBODY said she was "brain dead".
If she WAS brain dead, she wasn't "suffering".
I'm Catholic and I don't agree. Cremation is acceptable, look up what the fathers say. You want it to be a slap in the face, because it's Terri Schiavo. It didn't seem to matter before when millions of others have been cremated.
Please...you always do this. Could you flip that record over for awhile?
I don't wish to discuss it with you.
At last a voice of reason. Everything that happens between the two sides now is a family fight and no ones business. Personally I don't care about it. Cared about her, but not either side of her family now. If they keep it in the news, it is for attention and not for Terri. The ones out for revenge will suffer for it all the more.
You do a lot of hard work on behalf of justice and Terri. I would like to thank you for that.
Yes they did. In fact 7 out of 8 nerologists did.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7328639/
"If she was brain dead, she wasn't suffering"
I agree 100%. Either way, now or later.
You know he does not have to bury the ashes, he can keep them and I am afraid if her parents keep on, that is exactly what he will do and then in the end they will never know where they are.
Jiminy Cricket: "Conscience in Florida? Nope. No way
I was thrown out.
Boycott Florida until Greer is impeached."
I don't know how likely impeachment is, regardless of the petition. But if he were impeached, how would it affect his pension? (I'm from MA; it would be a big question here!)
But the eighth was right. :-)
All in MA pay endlessly to the Bulgers and this corrupt leaking cesspool.
Are you having a problem comprehending?
Dr. Walker gave a deposition on Nov 21, 2003. He was testifying to bone scans that were taken on March 5, 1991. He put the fractures more than likely not having happened further back than 18 months because fractures heal themselves. That would make the fractures happening no further back than Sept. 1989.
Dr. Walker did not rule out those fractures happening in Feb 1990 though when Terri collapsed.
I don't know where you ever came up with 1993 and that I was making any kind of allegation. The only thing I said was from what I read it doesn't appear like x-rays or bone scans in this autopsy (2005) are going to show any fractures based on what Dr Walker said about them healing themselves. It has now been from 1991 when those scans were taken to 2005. If like he said they heal themselves then they probably won't see anything.
CLICK HERE On the left hand side go to #5 Dr. Walkers Testimony and read the whole thing.
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