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.
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And that is different from you rationalizing an obvious use of situational ethics because you LIKE what's she's obfuscating about how?
Simple answers work for simple problems or simple people.
No, my point was that some people seem to think there's some sort of moral difference between "starving someone to death" and "asphyxiating someone to death." Inasmuch as oxygen is just as vital as food and water, there is no difference. A feeding tube is "life support" just like a ventilator.
If I had used that logic on my preemie baby, I would never allowed them to put it in her right after her birth. As it was, it was taken off three days after her birth because she started breathing on her own. But during that time, do you think I sould have seriously considered removing the one source of nourishment she was getting outside my body????
When a preemie baby is in PVS and someone can make a case that the baby has stated her preference is to not be kept alive like that, such an analogy may have some relevance to this debate.
Neither did you.
That being said, the court documents and official reports are an infinitely superior source of information about the case than the misrepresentations and fictions spun and perpetuated by the likes of WND, NewsMax and Empire Journal.
I don't know any other way to answer your question.
If you want to believe the worst about the mother, so be it.
I just cannot imagine what this family has gone through over the years watching this happening to their daughter and having so little control of her destiny.
I cannot imagine the emotional toll on this family.
I can understand how momentary emotions might play into comments such as these.
Just be glad you don't have the last name Schiavo.......
I have difficulty believing that you can not think of a situation where you would lie to save a loved one's life.
what if someone had a gun pointed at a loved one's head, and said they would let them go if you agreed to _______.
You would not agree, even if you knew you wouldnt do what was asked?
I just dont think humans are that infallible as to deny they would lie to save a loved one's life. Call me cynical.
Howlin, I must disagree with you. If my child's life depended upon my lying, I would lie my a$$ off. Just like the Swindlers.
What? Give them money? Give them sex? Give them anything I had. Sure I would do that, but that wouldn't be a lie.
"BTW, I looked and I don't see ANY place on this thread where anybody got "pinged" for help. How about pointing those out for me."
I wasn't referring to this thread. I was referring to other similar threads where conservative Christians attempt to take a stand together to discuss the MSM's bias against our God-given and U.S. military-ensured right to life and its liberties. There are several on which you have pinged your group for backup; not that you were being attacked yourselves; just that you find a need to further the agenda we oppose.
I was really taken by surprise when I heard on FNC today that the headstone indicates she died in '90. Unbelievable. My wife even did a second take on that.
You have been reading & listening to way too much rhetoric & lies....
Whether you think the Schindlers were right or not, I agree with you that I too would do what it takes to save my child's life. That's all I'm saying.
I happen to think the real culprit is MS, but I digressed.
"You know, that's just something you say to justify the fact that hardly anybody agrees with you, EV."
Always appreciate your posts, E.V. As for the holier-than-thou comments we tolerate, isn't it nice to feel the peace of sanctification...
Aren't there Christian forums for that? You won't find any arguments there and you'll have a real hallelujah congregation.
Read FR's homepage........
I think Michael's actions on this truly define who he really is and what this was all about - it was about him.
God is good.
Well, you're going to have to be a little more specific; that covers just about every thread on FR.
There are several on which you have pinged your group for backup; not that you were being attacked yourselves; just that you find a need to further the agenda we oppose.
No kidding; well, since I don't go on the Religion threads, you're just going to have to find one to point that out.
Now run along and back up that accuastion; if there are "several" surely you can find ONE, right?
You can link it right here.
We can all wait for as long as it takes for you to back up that (false) accusation.
And be sure to find one where I OPPOSE the Christian agenda, okay?
Put up or retract.
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