headquarters of scientology is right by Greer's courthouse. The Clwtr Bar holds their mtgs in the scientologist hotel.
Posted on 03/14/2006 11:28:51 AM PST by KevinNuPac
Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify
Kevin Fobbs
March 13, 2006
Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life honoring Terri Schiavo with a day of remembrance challenges each and every one of us to stop for a moment and ask ourselves a question, do we respect ourselves, our families, our lives?
And if we are faced with the question of the possible certainty of death, does anyone truly know, or even have the faintest clue about, our wishes? That is the greatest good, the greatest legacy that Terri Schiavo's death and an annual "Terri's Day" can bring to our lives and to the celebration of the Culture of Life.
On March 18th, we as a nation will begin to grieve again, to reach into our hearts and feel with our collective national spirit what the Schindler family felt last year at this time as each moment since Terri was disconnected from the feeding lifeline, the moments crept by like hours and hours like days.
All of us have felt in some way that pain — even if it were only in the privacy of our loved one's home, hospital room, hospice or perhaps talking with an attorney and doctor attempting to make sense out of some fleeting comments made in a conversation perhaps voiced ten, twelve or even two decades earlier — not necessarily an expression of her true feeling about an end-of-life decision but merely an incidental musing in a long-forgotten side conversation.
For at least one million Americans, and quite possibly a whole lot more, this is an opportunity to voice an opinion through a pledge supporting a resolution in each state called "Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life." Each and every person who cares that your family, your spouse, your mother, your father, your sister or brother understands with clarity what you wish the end of life for you to be, with dignity and certainty should sign the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com and take the additional step to sign a Living Will — or as they call it at www.terrisfight.org, the Will to Live.
Some have asked why Americans should care about an annual Terri's Day. It is quite simple, we tend to keep turning the page on the Culture of Life because we feel it does not affect us. We tend to believe that seemingly universal belief that those who are handicapped, those who are not quite living a "perfect" life or by contemporary notion "ideal" then those lives are possibly disposable, marginal, not relevant, and part of the Culture of Death which embraces a "disposable society."
But life and our values for the Culture of Life are not disposable. Think about the young people today who would rather hurt themselves or even take their own lives rather than feel "imperfect" or the elderly person whose family is told by an insensitive health care professional while the stricken person struggles to cling to life, "she would be better off in another place," — just let her die, disconnect her from life, because her quality of life is not up to "contemporary standards. "
Why does celebrating the Culture of Life in Michigan become so essential for all of us in America? It is important for several reasons. Dr. Jack Kervorkian, also known as "Doctor Death" helped launch first in Michigan and then the nation the notion of the death culture. Secondly, and equally as important, at the May 12 event — just two days before Mother's Day — there will also be a "Mary's Moms" celebration of those women and mothers who have met challenges in standing up for some aspect of the Culture of Life.
This past weekend I sat at my cousin's funeral — or going home celebration, which more accurately describes it — thinking about the dearly departed and how she packed so much caring for others into her life even as she struggled with illness and advancing age. She was a wonderful woman who had lived through many, many challenges in her life, but in her 73 years she had met these challenges with dignity and had conveyed to her family when would be the right time to allow her to pass away.
Her daughter, who is a minister, spoke to the packed church about the times when, with all of her pain and then a stroke, the doctors had informed them that perhaps it was better to let her go. Yet that was three years ago that that occurred, and if the family had listened to the doctors and refused to see how she fought back and not only recovered but went back to volunteering at the church to feed and clothe the homeless. The medical professionals didn't care about an elderly lady who was on dialysis, but the family did and they knew better. Patricia lived three more years — years her extensive extended family considered "a gift from God."
So isn't part of the lesson of Terri's legacy and Terri's Day for families and loved ones to have a meaningful conversation with their family and to have the written document on hand as well that conveys the wishes clearly and concisely? You betcha.
As I sat in the church I thought of all of the families across the nation and the world who were sitting at their loved one's bedsides — or even standing outside of a hospital emergency room — overwhelmed with emotion, torn by what may be days of conflicting anguished decisions. I thought again of how out of death we may have the certainty of life. Terri's death reminded the nation that yes a state can and will starve you to death, and your family may be rendered helpless as you watch your loved one's precious life forces drain slowly away.
By signing the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com or going to www.terrisfight.org, you can learn about how to encourage your state legislature to establish March 31st as an official Terri's Day. Hold a Culture of Life Home Party or meet-and-greet to sign pledges, share ideas and support The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation as well as Culture of Life activities and events in your community or around the nation. Between now and March 31st you can make a dramatic difference for yourself, your family and for the nation. Stand up for the Culture of Life because one person, one life, one family can and does make a difference in America. Make the difference and be the difference today. America...The countdown for the Culture of Life has begun.
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Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the daily host of The Kevin Fobbs Show on News Talk WDTK - 1400 AM in Detroit. Listen to The Kevin Fobbs Show online at www.wdtkam.com daily 2-3 p.m., and call in toll-free nationwide to make your opinion count at 800-923-WDTK(9385) © Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060313
Thanks for the info. Terri is becoming more and more on people's minds, not less. Maybe Crier will be kind to them on Court TV. Crier was on the evil judges' side and contorted her face so much last year, she looked spooky.
You're welcome. If it's on Fox, you can count on a ping.
The handsome one.
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=45c053a2-7a3d-4e14-bc0b-0b533c8d1538&f=00
This is the link to the Today Show interview with Matt Lauer, Schiavo and Jodi. (poor Matt. I bet he'd rather be anywhere in the world than be with those two.)
The Schindlers will find out soon enough. Anyway, Crier may end up looking like a complete fool if she's too hard on them. To attack such fine people in person would reflect badly on Crier.
Local here would be ABC Family Channel 52 on Brighthouse.
Ariel Sharon's running for office and he really is in a coma. How ironic is that?
700 Club feature starting on TBN now (right after the Andy Card stuff). Runs for the first 11 minutes of the show.
Maybe someone rang the doorbell or phoned her? I'd say she was not in bed, but I couldn't say for certain whether there was an assailant at her front door.
Just have a puppet show right now, annoying puppets. No 700 club yet here. LOL
The problem I've had is with the thing that feeds the paper through. I took my previous printer to Best Buy with the same problem, and the clerk said it would cost more to fix it, and just to look for a printer on sale. The cost of ink is ridiculous, and I am thinking of buying it online, or refilling the cartridges myself. I've hardly even used this printer. I'm an uber cheapskate, so I'll keep the thrift stores in mind.
I printed out two copies of the Will to Live, including the papes that suggest how to fill the darn thing out. The problem is that words can be twisted, as we know.
He yelled at a little hospice volunteer who was about 80 years old and less than five foot tall. She even had a walker and he screamed at her in the hallway at hospice. She came outside and was all upset. What a bully.
;-D
Harrumph. Barfy is the adjective. You can say that Jodi the bar fly, two words often compounded to a single word, barfly, is barfy, but you can't say barfy is how you react to her. That needs an adverb. You "react" to a barfly barfly. See, adjectives modify nouns but you need adverbs to modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. I used barfly here in proper adverbial form in order to modify the verb, "react."
And that's the retched truth.
That's another one of the odd occurances that puzzle me. A woman's body on the floor, and the cops only spend 2 hours and 22 minutes investigating? They spend more time on shoplifters and petty criminals in most jurisdictions.
headquarters of scientology is right by Greer's courthouse. The Clwtr Bar holds their mtgs in the scientologist hotel.
They briefly looked over Terri, didn't see any blood, bruises or other outward signs of anything amiss, and that was that. They did not follow up -- this shocks me -- and get a medical report on Terri from the doctors and ER personnel. Perhaps they were unaware that bruises and other marks from violence may not show up for two days; that half of all strangulations leave no marks at all; that emergency rooms have an absolutely dismal record of detecting domestic violence; that Terri may have suffered internal injuries; that Terri's blood tests might reveal indications of violence (in fact, they did), and so on. In other words, these two policemen wrapped up their "investigation" before it was even possible to have any idea what occurred.
I don't think MS would need any help as big as he is, unless it was for an alibi. From what I've read, MS has a rather foul temper.
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