At left, George Felos, telling the reporters that Terri never looked more beautiful and died a peaceful death.Beautiful? George has got a bridge to sell you.
I don't trust people who exaggerate.
Posted on 01/29/2006 10:06:22 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who took a leading role in the Terry Schiavo case, said Sunday it taught him that Americans do not want the government involved in such end-of-life decisions.
Frist, considered a presidential hopeful for 2008, defended his call for further examinations of the brain-damaged Florida woman during the last days of a bitter family feud over her treatment. Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state.
The case became a rallying point for right-to-life advocates, an important segment of the Republican Party. It also drew interest from those supporting the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment and led to charges that the GOP was using a family tragedy for political gain.
Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he had any regrets regarding the Schiavo case, Frist said: "Well, I'll tell you what I learned from it, which is obvious. The American people don't want you involved in these decisions."
Schiavo, 41, died March 31, nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed and 15 years after her initial collapse and hospitalization. Courts in Florida had supported her husband's contention that she would not want to live in such a state. Her parents and siblings disagreed and for years fought efforts to remove her feeding tube.
An autopsy later showed that Schiavo had suffered severe, irreversible brain damage and was blind.
Frist, R-Tenn., said in the full Senate that he supported what he called "an opportunity to save Mrs. Schiavo's life." A heart surgeon, Frist had viewed video ordered by a court and taken by a board-certified neurologist who had concluded she was not in a persistent vegetative state.
Congress passed a bill to allow a federal court to review the case, and President Bush quickly returned from his Texas ranch to sign the bill into law. But a federal judge refused to order the tube reinserted, a decision upheld by a federal appeals court and the Supreme Court.
Frist was later mocked as having made a diagnosis from his office using a video screen. "I didn't make the diagnosis," Frist said Sunday. "I raised the question of whether or not she was in a persistent vegetative state."
Looking back, Frist said, "When you're taking innocent life, with parents who want that life preserved, you've got to make sure, and therefore stepping in to say, let's take one more review, that's what we did."
He added: "I accept the outcome. I don't agree with the moral sense of it."
Frist plans to leave the Senate when his second term expires in January 2007. He said Sunday he will return to his home in Tennessee and decide whether to seek the Republican nomination for president.
There is no such agenda to see life extinguished. This is about the right of people to have a next of kin act on their behalf instead of the government or other unrelated outside activist. The roles of who wants life and who wants death could easily be reversed and the assessment about whether there has been a sound judgment about the hope for recovery should still apply.
At left, George Felos, telling the reporters that Terri never looked more beautiful and died a peaceful death.Beautiful? George has got a bridge to sell you.
I don't trust people who exaggerate.
Unlike Dr. Frist, I do not accept the outcome. TERRI WAS MURDERED and that's that. www.judgegeorgegreer.com
I think the more impartial recollection is that MS allowed the Schindlers to argue their wishes before a court. He didn't have to do that. He could have removed the tube without the court. He instead left it to the court after hearing the Schindler's plea. IMHO that's more than fair.
Good night - I'm done talking about Terri here. Re-arguing the Terri fight over and over and over again will get us nowhere.
I'm interested in the issues, not just that case.
I applauded their perseverance.
And that is that.
keep alive against my will.
That's your choice. Unfortunately, Terri's had a mindset, 'where there is life, there is hope'. I'm sure you would want any rehab that could help you and I'm sure you will get it. However, Terri had the money for such rehab that was requested by her doctors early on but it was denied by her husband. So you see - your situation is the other end of the spectrum from Terri's. You can't put yourself in her situation.
Just a thought - what if a judge decides he isn't going to grant 'your request'. A judge did it before, another judge can do it again. What if someone is collecting some long term disability on your behalf and you may be worth more alive right now, than dead.
Choosing the manner of someone's death is against the law. He ordered her death and chose that it would be by starvation which is against the Florida Statutes. Starvation and dehydration is a FELONY.
That Terri was at the "end of life" is such a farce. She screamed when she found out the g-tube was coming out. She SCREAMED. She knew what they were doing to her. Her dad would tell her to hang in there.
Too bad the "unwanted" government never showed up. Too bad they turned around. Terri had no civil rights that everyone on this thread enjoys. For shame.
IT'S A FAMILY MATTER
Yeah, I'll have my wife killed instead of divorcing her! Peterson and Baretta comes to mind.
I totally agree with you. Besides, we are a Republic not a Democracy with the inherent mob rule that a full Democracy would bring.
It's very upsetting that we have so few true leaders in our government and in public life, in general, but I have high hopes that issues like this will bring them out eventually.
Killing people like Terri is murder in my books and should be punished as such.
If those who wish to end lives even due to what they call "mercy" then they should be fully adult enough to take the heat and pay for what they've done according to what society would demand of them. Some get off. Some do time. Some do major time.
If a person wants to die, then they can die if they do it by their own hand, they shouldn't drag others into the cesspool with them.
The government has no business getting into the forcible death of innocents business just like they have no business legalizing abortion.
For years I've thought, if a girl wants to get an abortion, let her get one out of the country or illegally and face the consequences but keep the government out of the death business.
This whole mess is dragging the country down into the gutter and dirtying the soul of this nation.
Disclaimer: War and criminals don't count, they are different animals altogether so don't bother going there.
Check out the 14th Amendment sometime.
But, remember that before they wrote the death warrant to murder Terri by a barbaric means, they robbed her rehab monies to DEATH LAWYERS, FELOS, BUSHNELL AND SOME TO HAM BASKIN.
How can you rehab someone who's just been robbed? Michael Schiavo cut off Terri's rehab and Terri still did really well. She wasn't PVS and neither is Haleigh, or Scott Thomas. Does everyone who has a brain injury need their very own watchdog group to make sure that their providers or judges aren't going to starve them to death?
Judge Greer and his buddy friends are FELONS.
You're too late... I've lost interest in re-debating Greer and Terri and Michael. Carry on without me.
Of course there is an agenda..
Didn't you hear?
Felos said Michael's cause was only able to succeed because of the help of the ACLU and of some others.
For years, the ACLU has been very busily fighting for the right to Physician Assisted Suicide. They know their way around the courts, all right. Back in 1999, the ACLU gave an award and a dinner (!!the irony!!) to Former Chief Justice of the Florida State Supreme Court, Gerald Kogan, who supports Physician Assisted Death.
Government shouldn't have any say in what a persons whishes are as far as supporting or ending their life.
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Wrong, utterly wrong, 180 degrees wrong, as wrong as wrong can be.
Government is ENTIRELY about saying about how life is ended, and preventing life from being ended for the convenience of another.
It sure seems that way sometimes.
I've noticed that lawmakers are afraid to defend the vulnerable folks who can't vote.
It was a despicable way to treat an American and the corruption was so widespread somebody should do a flow chart.
And, remember that JUDGE GREER IS A REPUBLICAN. A GOP hit man.
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Yawnnnnnn....me too. There is no fact or individual the zealots here won't challenge and insult. What they don't realize is they represent about 1% of the wackadoo fringe. Or perhaps they do realize it and revel in being "persecuted" for standing up for "life".
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