Posted on 03/28/2011 10:45:49 AM PDT by wagglebee
The family of Terri Schiavo, through their Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, will present a symposium on end-of-life issues before a special Mass to remember and honor the life of the disabled woman.
The mass, which will be held at Ave Maria University, a Florida-based Catholic college, will mark the anniversary of the death of the woman who rose to international attend when her husband sought and won permission from a court to take her life via a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death.
The symposium, entitled The Erosion of Medical Ethics, will be held on March 31 and Bobby Schindler, Terri’s brother and the director of the foundation bearing her name that tries to help disabled patients and their families, will be moderating the panel and also discuss how the removal of food and water to the cognitively disabled occurs daily in our society.
“With health care rationing on the rise, it is crucial to educate our future attorneys on the moral and legal understandings as it relates to basic healthcare needs such as food and water,” he said. “In the future, these are the very men and women who will be essential to protecting the rights of the cognitively disabled, the elderly and medically dependent.”
He told LifeNews.com, “It is our hope that upon graduation they will be part of our Network of lawyers who fight for the lives of our vulnerable brothers and sisters.”
Speakers include Brother Paul O’Donnell, Dr. Mark Mostert, Kristan Hawkins and Professor Richard Myers. They will discuss Catholic Church teaching as it relates to hydration and nutrition; historical prejudice to people with disabilities; health care and its potential effects on special needs patients; and the legal aspects of the Terri Schiavo case. The symposium is open to law students and faculty of Ave Maria School of Law.
Following the symposium Ave Maria University will host the “The National Mass for Terri’s Day” at the Ave Maria Oratory, located near Naples, Florida. The International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Schiavo, and All of Our Vulnerable Brothers and Sisters (“Terri’s Day”) was established in 2007 and is observed each year on March 31, the date of Terri’s death. Father Frank Pavone, the director of Priests for Life, will join again this year as the main celebrant for the event.
The purpose of this day is to foster education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the cognitively disabled, and advocacy for people in situations similar to what Terri and her family faced. 40 Days for Life, a community-based campaign that over a period of 40 days attempts to transform individuals and communities to recognize the value and dignity of human life, will be observing “Terri’s Day” with prayer along with countless others who will be remembering Terri on this day.
The family is also sponsoring a fundraising concert in Ohio in June featuring the Beach Boys.
This is more important than ever.
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My mother specified do not resuscitate, but we still wanted her to have oxygen and could give her water. To starve and dehydrate a person to death is heinous. How could one live with oneself without the mercy of even placing a sponge with water on the tongue? I can’t conceive of it.
This is an excellent idea. I’d also like to see the health care industry educated in ethics. The culture of death permeates the health care industry today. If we could get them to first do no harm, the problem would be solved.
I think it is a matter of money. We are in so much debt that if they let every person live until they die it costs a fortune. It is horrible to starve someone of course. It is just a matter of who pays for the hospital bill of someone who stays alive years and years longer. I say the family pays. The insurance company should pay until the doctor says there is no hope. Anyone without insurance should not even have a choice. How dare uninsured folks leave the bill to the tax payers. I am really sick of that!!!!
Should I ask for a sarc tag?
Well I can say that I am serious about the money. Why should you or I pay? You probably are not a conservative but I am.
I remember a year and a half ago when FReepers were really disgusted by the notion of death panels, but it seems like some FReepers were in favor of death panels the whole time and just kept quiet about it.
It's really disgusting how many FReepers are openly supporting Obamacare.
You sound more like Obama than a conservative. He agrees with you that these people should just die.
Yep, and doing under the flag of being ‘conservative’ yet.
Which is nearly identical to what has happened under every genocidal dictatorship in modern times.
You better hope your PCP's alter ego isn't Dr. Kevorkian.
Take my word for it, don't trust ANY doctor's pronouncement that "there is no hope." Especially if they do not believe in the sanctity of human life.
They haven't been entirely silent. Some of them have been parroting this poster for a number of years.
We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest.
Our entire point, the entire argument about zer0-death-care is that the government has no business taking over any business, let alone health care and health insurance.
The only reason that these businesses become broken is that the government breaks them and then steps in claiming to be the only solution.
They repeat this pattern over and over again. Many of us really need to wake up.
And it gets even more treacherous when money is involved.
Now that's funny as everytime I talk to you I get freepmails that you're a troll. And I agree.
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