Posted on 04/06/2005 11:45:49 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
GULFPORT - In an emotional tribute at a memorial Mass, Terri Schiavo was praised Tuesday night as a remarkable woman, an inspiration to others and someone whose name will become a rallying cry to those who feel her death was an injustice.
''I am sorry, though, that pure love alone was not enough to keep you from harm,'' Schiavo's sister, Suzanne Vitadamo, told a crowd of more than 800 that overflowed and spilled outside the sanctuary of a St. Petersburg church Tuesday night.
''You are telling us not to be sad,'' Vitadamo said in a message to her sister, ``but to be happy because you are now free. You are a remarkable woman. Your smile brought us great joy. You have shown the world what perseverance and determination are all about.
''I miss you,'' Vitadamo said. ``We will forever be grateful to you.''
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
I would appreciate it if you would come back down to earth and quit dumbing down the language by using inapproriate words like "inspiration" and "hero". Firemen that run into a building when everyone else is running out and soldiers who fight our wars are heroic and an inspiration. Not someone that lays in her own feces unaware of the world.
For your own knowledge, Terri is well beyond being able to affected by any "abuse" you think I am inflicting. She is at peace.
As far as "will to live", my 80 year old mother who had advanced parkinsons and had suffered three strokes, was in the hospital with pneumonia, a urinary tract infection, an intestinal blockage and she lasted a week from the point when she asked that efforts to keep her alive cease.
The language is in the article. I did not write the article. And, once again, you are requested to take your abuse elsewhere...
Come on. Get real. They filmed four or more hours. During most of that time they got no response. A few times they got lucky and they filmed what looks like a response to something that they did but it was a random action. so the video you see is at most a few minutes. Where is the other four hours?
There is also a lot of acting where the parents seem to move to where Terri's eyes are moving to make it look like Terri is tracking them. There is a saying that you can put 25 monkeys in a room with typewriters and if they had an infinite amount of time they could create the entire works of Shakesphere.
Even the doc from the Mayo Clinic that Jeb Bush was so hot on said that in the time he was with Terri he couldnt find any action that was anything but random. Same thing with Terri's Guardian Ad Litem and most of the doctors who actually examined her, except for those being paid by the Schindlers as expert witnesses.
And you are requested to start posting about serious things like Taxes, Social Security Reform, the War, fighting terrorism, and getting conservative judges (not religous whackos) on the bench. As far as abuse, you seem to come from a very sheltered life. Grow up.
As I said before on an earlier post, without using the proper diagnostic tools to determine the extent of Terri's brain damage, it is not known whether or not she was aware. You have no idea if she was or wasn't. If all we have to go on is the videos of her, then I would say that she was at least aware some of the time, albeit sporadically.
FWIW, 'hero' can be applied to anyone who saved the life of another, then Terri would qualify in that she may have saved many spiritual lives, not to mention any of those who come after her who will be saved from their own untimely deaths, that is, once we get this country back on track.
I followed the links on your profile page. I don't see any military bashing. What are you talking about? Are there other links?
You saw them. Every time one of you posts a denial, several people read your denial and go look at the posts. Thank you.
Denial? Are you sure you aren't delusional? And what do you mean by "one of you?" Thanks.
"...without using the proper diagnostic tools to determine the extent of Terri's brain damage, it is not known whether or not she was aware."
PVS is a clinical diagnosis which does not require fMRI's CAT scans or any other radiological study. The diagnosis has already been made based upon the clinical evidence and the EEG.
Do you have something inspirational to say about Terri, or are you just trying to start a flame war?
Not trying to start a flame war, just trying to figure out what "military bashing" you are talking about. I read the posts you linked, and I don't see any military bashing, as you keep insisting.
I didn't say PVS, I said awareness. Since that is part and parcel of the term PVS, it would be wise to include that sort of diagnostic testing as one of the criteria, better than a CT scan or an EEG, which show nothing of awareness. However, you are correct that sometimes awareness does not need to be measured by a machine if it is obvious that a person exhibits that behavior, much like Terri did on her videos from time to time. I don't care what you say, Terri was not PVS according to the Florida statutes even though Greer ruled that she was. He was wrong, IMHO. It won't bring Terri back, but maybe we can help someone else in the future.
Does that mean you agree with the insults they made about an unknown soldier? Are those the kinds of remarks you make when you see a photo of an unidentified soldier in uniform?
Now, I've had enough of your nonsense. Regardless of any disagreements you and I have about respect for soldiers, disabled people, or anyone else, this is not the time or place to argue about it.
4 1/2 minutes of might be out of 4 1/2 hours of isn't.
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For those who want to express condolences to the Schindlers:
http://theresa-schindler.memory-of.com/about.aspx
For those who are into "dancing" as real people grieve, please do not insult the Schindlers by visiting the memorial page for Terri. These good people have been through enough.
Yes, it is. The statute says *no* response of *any* kind. The fact that she did at all made her ineligible for having her feeding tube pulled.
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