Posted on 07/13/2005 8:27:03 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The end of the June 15 autopsy report on Terri Schiavo states that it is the policy of the medical examiner's officer "that no case is ever closed and that all determinations are to be reconsidered upon receipt of credible, new information." Whatever new information, if any, comes to light, the facts of who she was and how she died will inevitably change the way many of us confront our own deaths.
Pat Anderson, for a long time the attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, said the day Terri died of dehydration — as ordered by the courts and her husband — "Euthanasia in America now has a name — and a face."
Dr. Jon Thogmartin's autopsy report made clear that Terri Schiavo was not dying, let alone terminal.
Most of the media omitted the fact that in Congress, there were many Democrats as well as Republicans who tried hard to provide Terri the essence of our legal system — due process — before it was too late.
But then, the great majority of the federal judges who became involved relied entirely on the state circuit judge's unyielding death sentence. I called this judicial murder, the longest public execution in our history. Despite Michael Schiavo's bronze marker on her grave, I have not changed my mind.
Michael Schiavo's literary agent, David Vigliano, is sending proposals for a book by the husband to publishers. Says Mr. Vigliano: "I think this is the seminal case in the right to die with dignity story."
No.
This is the seminal case for whether euthanasia for the seriously disabled becomes embedded in the American way of death.
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Yes, this case will forever be remembered cause it put a face on Euthansia and sadly it was the face of Terri. It should never have happend and I will never forget it nor be so willing to forgive those who did this to her. Everyone failed Terri. She was killed. Death with dignity is BS! there is nothing dignified about deydrating to death. Dying with dignity is someone who dies naturually, like most of us do. That is what is dignified!
Apparently, a "finding of fact" carries the same weight
as a ruling from the SCOTUS.
The judge made such a ruling some 12 years ago that
Terri told her husband she didn't want to be kept alive
under artificial means.
I disagree, but only slightly. The finding that doomed Teri was when her husband gained custody. Her "rights" to make her own medical decisions transfered to him. The tragedy is that the system would not take custody away from him and give it to the parents, being that he saw her as a mere possession to control, and they saw her as someone they loved.
Where did you get that it was 12 years ago? The "law" that Felos lobbied for wasn't passed until 1999.
My sentiments exactly, and I was most impressed with Nat Hentoff's focus on how it was that Terri was given morphine to ease her pain. If she was non compos mentis, then she wouldn't have felt pain. They surely KNEW and could tell that she was in extraordinary pain. How does THAT square with Felos's somber reassurances that she "never looked more beautiful."
I swear. Someone should put Felos away where he can't hurt or kill anyone else.
Thanks so much for your comments, Halls.
Char
Thing is they said they gave her morphine cause they didn't know for sure if she felt pain or not. Well, duh!! If you don't know if someone feels pain or not than maybe you shouldn't deydrate them to death and err on the side of life, instead of death.
Thanks CHARLITE. Let's keep the main error or evil
in mind folks. Greer didn't start this, the pro-murder
aka euthanasia advocates started this, decades ago, and
the U.S. Supreme Court imposed it, or rather gave a
legal license for relatives burdened with inconvenient
disabled relatives to kill. Cruzan, Brophy, and (not
familiar with the last one) Quinlan cases must go, just
as Roe v. Wade must go. That's the big picture.
What still is most outrageous is how the judge
could give the husband custody, when he had sired
two children from his new kive in.
There are also numerous defects in Florida law, e.g.
that Terri did not have her own advocate, or so I have
been heard from people more knowledgeable in disability
activisim.
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