Posted on 06/20/2005 8:40:58 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Terri Schiavo's husband buried her cremated remains in a Clearwater cemetery Monday, inscribing on her bronze grave marker that ``I kept my promise.''
David Gibbs, an attorney for the woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, said inscribing the marker that way was a nasty political statement by Michael Schiavo, who held the service and burial Monday before telling her family.
``Obviously, that's a real shot and another unkind act toward a grieving mom and dad,'' Gibbs said.
After earlier announcing plans to bury his wife's ashes in their native Pennsylvania, Michael Schiavo instead interred them at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater, near Tampa, his attorney, George Felos, said in a short news release Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
We could sell tickets to more than just Democrats :-)
But I didn't post that...why are you judging me by things that others post?
Makes me think there's a webcam.
The point is, you seem to take unreasonable comfort in the fact that the majority side with you.
I don't post screen names without pinging the person. Just making an observation. I'm sure you'll meet some time. Have a great day.
So now, months later, long after it mattered, the autopsy is out and it indicates what we already knew: Terri was profoundly brain-damaged. She may or may not have been in a PVS — to this day we don’t know. Yet, the “right-to-die” forces are waving the autopsy report triumphantly, saying: See, see, see — she was PVS, just like we said! Well, leaving aside that the autopsy does not confirm the diagnosis, if scientific exactitude about the degree of brain injury is important now, when she’s dead, why wasn’t it important then? Why was there only rebuke for those who insisted there was virtue in a society’s being sure before life was snuffed out? The answer is simple: Because to the right-to-die people, the accuracy of the PVS diagnosis was never central; what mattered was giving effect to the purported “choice.”
Dozens of doctors. I only recall, after following this closely for over two years, two or three doctors testifying that she was PVS. As for nurses the only ones on record signed affadavits that she was aware and ate jello and ice chips. But nurses don't do diagnosis of conditions like that, if any kind of condition, so it's strange that you hang your argument on that. I don't know of any therapist's testimony except the affadavit by the 'swallow test' therapist who was certain Terri could benefit from testing and therapy.
So you haven't read the court transcripts or a word of what I said, is that your position?
The nurses wanted a restraining order (they were half kidding, btw, when they said that, they made no attempt to actually get one) because he was so demanding of their care of Terri.
But keep using those little colored fonts and large letters so that will jump out at people. Your little lies and misrepresentations say a LOT about you.
I have final words for you, and I say that as someone who is now even more convinced that I, and others who decry Michael Schiavo : we are in the right.
YOU DO NOT STARVE SOMEONE TO DEATH.
ROFLMAO.
You made statements about Jackie you can't back up.
You made statements about PVS being misdiagnosed and then when I used those words against you, you can't argue the merits of the statement YOU made.
And, as I've told you repeatedly, I have read the autopsy.
Your complete misrepresentations time and again on this thread and others tells me where you're coming from pal.
And I'll be delighted if you don't post to me again.
I read it but you still have answered the question about your OWN post despite being asked by several freepers.
That tells me everything I need to know.
Sorry, 423 was for newgeezer.
Have you read the Wolfson Report, regarded to be the best background on this matter?
She was examined and cared for and tested by dozens of doctors, nurses, neurologists, etc.
So now people who don't agree with you don't have a soul?
Here's the post that you are really referring to:
I said it was wrong to kill her. That is my opinion. Nothing can change it. No list of "facts" will ever change it.
And I put "facts" in quotes because most of the so-called "facts" posted here were in fact "opinion." Whether it was a poster's opinion, a reporter's opinion, her husband's opinion, a relative's opinion, a supporter's opinion, a detractor's opinion, a politician's opinion, a lawyer's opinion, a doctor's opinion, the president's opinion, the governor's opinion, or even the judge's opinion - they were and are all opinions.
And none of them are incontrovertible or indisputable fact.
In fact, they continue calling in more doctors and more experts to give their opinion even after it's all said and done. In this battle of press, public, politicians, doctors, lawyers and "experts" the side with the most thumbs down votes won and she was killed. What was it, two out of three or three out of five? How about we go for seven out of twelve? How about one "no" vote out of twelve and you don't execute?
The last I heard, in this country when you are on trial for your life, if there is one doubtful juror, you don't receive a death sentence. The accused receives the benefit of the doubt. Of course, Terri did not even receive the benefit of a trial much less the benefit of the doubt. She was simply snuffed out per a judge's order based on three out of five expert "opinions." It's a shame and a disgrace and a mockery of justice.
4,413 posted on 04/03/2005 7:18:29 PM EDT by Jim Robinson
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Keep repeating it because it's obvious you can't back up your OWN words.
I guess CP must be down today....they are all showing up here.....
He was demanding TOO MUCH attention be paid to Schiavo; he was bugging the staff to death about her CARE.
Horrible, wasn't he?
"CP"?
But if I were in Terri's condition, half my brain gone, unable to even eat or drink, blind, and all gnarled up, someone had certainly better remove my tube and starve me to death, because I've expressly made that my wish pursuant to the statutes of the state of Texas.
If it's not clear what the patient wants, sure, err on the side of life, but it isn't much of a life, and one that I want no part of.
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