"We aren't going to pull each other's plugs, are we?"
Posted on 12/03/2006 3:03:26 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Theresa Marie Schindler was born to Robert and Mary Schindler on December 3, 1963. She was the first of three children the Schindlers would have.
Terri was a shy, but comical, child who had an affinity for music, animals and the arts. She kept a small circle of friends and was dear to schoolmates, neighboring families and her own extended family.
Following high school, Terri came into her own. She developed a knack for sketching and doodling. She enjoyed outings with her friends. She was an adoptive mother to the family’s dog, Bucky.
Terri attended Catholic School while growing up and remained close to her faith throughout her life.
In 1983, Terri met Michael Schiavo at Bucks County Community College and the two began dating. He was the first romantic interest Terri had.
The couple was engaged within a few months and married a year later at Terri’s church in Southampton, Pa. She was 21.
In 1986, Terri and Michael relocated to Pinellas County, Florida and her parents followed three months later.
In 1990, at the age of 26, Terri suffered a mysterious cardio-respiratory arrest for which no cause has ever been determined. She was diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy – neurological injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. Terri was placed on a ventilator, but was soon able to breathe on her own and maintain vital function. She remained in a severely compromised neurological state and was provided a PEG tube to ensure the safe delivery of nourishment and hydration.
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of marked dehydration following more than 13 days without nutrition or hydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of the Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
Thanks, I'm at a borrowed computer and won't be able to give this attention until I get home. Off the top, though, one quick comment: wherever we have some approximation of a free market, history has proven Malthus wrong. Later...
22 (c) Format of bracelet.--The department shall, with the
23 advice of the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council and
24 with the assistance of the regional emergency medical services
25 councils, make available standard bracelets for issuance to
26 patients by attending physicians. The bracelets shall be uniform
27 in design and shall, at a minimum, on the face clearly indicate
28 OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR and the name of the patient and attending
29 physician as well as the dated signature of the attending
30 physician.
It could be a charm bracelet. We could have little charms attached saying, "Darn right resuscitate, and be darn quick about it!" ... "Hands off my feeding tube, you murdering pigdogs!" ... "I disinherit any heir involved in any way in making an end-of-life decision for me."
Suggestions for additional charms?
I was thinking of "Where there is life, there is hope." But that's been tried, and it didn't work.
That one just might work!
If my feeding tube is removed, the whole building will blow up.
The only person authorized to remove my feeding tube is the one who is on their 13th day with no food or water.
I like it, but it's harsh. I'd say ten days is enough. Maybe eleven.
"No, I'm not happy to see you. I have a gun under the sheet. If you touch my feeding tube, I will use it."
What do you mean, "tubes"? I didn't say anything about tubes. I said I couldn't stand living next door to a tuba player.
I thought you said "I can't stand living with a tub of lard."
The whole right-to-die movement is reactionary to the bone. They are hooked on 19th C. socialist doctrines that create a strong economic incentive to killing the weak, the ill, the elderly. But even as socialists fix their gaze at the past, medicine is making logarithmic advances in so many areas, there is ever more hope for these patients. Thus the Left is stealing the lives of the afflicted just as hopes of cures for them burn brightest. Worse, this denial of human sympathy for the weakest among us is our doom as a civilization.
>>The murder of Terri Schiavio will not soon be forgotten, and now in retrospect, it might be viewed in the future as one the seminal events in our history that hallmarked the quickening of the massacre of our undesirables.
You're absolutely on target. This was a landmark case both in medicine and in constitutional law. Time will show that we went over a cliff. No, we were pushed over a cliff.
"I didn't say living with a feeding tube sucks. I said I don't want my feet in tube socks."
We have some facts and clues to consider.
1) Nobody else was present
2) The coroner ruled out the "bulimia" story that Michael had used as an alibi. Now he has no alibi.
3) The hospital could not find any natural cause for Terri's condition or injuries. No alcohol or drugs were found in her blood.
4) Terri's internal injuries were comparable to being in a bad auto wreck -- except she wasn't in one.
5) Terri and Michael were known to have had a heated fight that day.
6) Terri's blood tests showed at least two highly abnormal results associated with being assaulted.
7) Statistically, domestic violence, by husbands and boy friends, is the #1 cause of death and injury to young women.
Do we have any answers to this mystery?
Your plug is safe with me, BB.
You still don't have an answer? If you ever get one, it'll be in Breaking News. Don't hold your breath.
No. Not one. The silence speaks volumes.
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