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"She's still communicating, she's still responding. She's emaciated, but she's responsive," Bob Schindler, Terri’s father, told reporters after a morning visit with his daughter, saying that she showed facial expressions when he hugged and kissed her. "Don't give up on her. We haven't given up on her, and she hasn't given up on us."
Bob Schindler’s comments came just a day after the Schindler family lawyer, David Gibbs III, said publicly that the 41-year-old disabled woman has passed the point where “physically she would be able to recover.”
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Terri is “fighting like hell to live and she's begging for help. ... She has just incredible strength to live,” Mr. Schindler said. Outside of Terri’s hospice, nearly 100 protestors stood their ground. Several, however, made their way to the nation’s Capitol to press the President and Congress to intervene with police order or any other viable action....
DonÂ’t Give Up on Schiavo, says Parent
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Story of someone urging croaking the old and infirm as if it were a new thing, as if the devil just whispered this secret into his ear. Thread by chessplayer with thanks to TheSarce for the ping.
A senior Church of Scotland minister has questioned the wisdom of spending large amounts of money keeping older people alive. The Reverend Maxwell Craig, 76, feels funding could be better spent helping the young stay out of trouble...
Should old die for sake of young?
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