Posted on 08/29/2003 10:41:03 PM PDT by kimmie7
The man's been all over the TV pushing "right-to-kill" as compassion. He obviously has friends in high places and an agenda shared by MANY others. If you have strong stomachs, and a stronger team of faith partners, you might want to check out some of the other "New Age" major medical clinics / foundations. Doctors playing 'god' all over the place today.
Sorry, but no one - lawyer, minister, celebrity, human being - could do this to Terri and claim to be acting in a 'compassionate' or 'Godly' manner!
CASE NO: 8:03-cv-1860-T-26TGW
ROBERT SCHINDLER and
MARY SCHINDLER, as parents and
next friends of Theresa Marie Schindler
Schiavo, an incapacitated ward,
Plaintiffs,
v.
MICHAEL SCHIAVO, individually
and in his capacity as Guardian of the person
of THERESA MARIE SCHINDLER
SCHIAVO, an incapacitated ward; THE
HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST,
INC., AND MORTON PLANT HOSPITAL
ASSOCIATION, INC.,
Defendants.
…
From the affidavits filed:
29. Non-party co-conspirator Felos styles himself a pioneer in the "Death With Dignity" legal movement and is the author of Litigation as Spiritual Practice, published by the Blue Dolphin Publishing Co., Inc., of Nevada City, California, in 2002. This book promotes the defendant lawyer's trailblazing efforts in the pro-euthanasia field in America. He is at this time promoting his next book, which is to be about the related case in the Florida District Court of Appeal and Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit Court and which related case Mr. Felos evidently expects to end in the death of Theresa Marie Schiavo in the very near future.
30. Mr. Felos' book, Litigation as Spiritual Practice, contains numerous bizarre anecdotes about his ardent desire to end the administration of food and water to severely disabled or gravely sick patients.
31. On page 63, referring to his landmark Florida state court case, Estate of Browning, Felos writes: "Such a deep, dark, silent blue. I stared as far into her eyes as I could, hoping to sense some glimmer of understanding, some hint of awareness. The deeper I dove, the darker became the blue, until the blue became the black of some bottomless lake. 'Mrs. Browning, do you want to die?...Do you want to die?' - I near shouted as I continued to peer into her pools of strikingly beautiful but incognizant blue. It felt so eerie."
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32. On page 73, Attorney Felos writes: "As I continued to stay beside Mrs. Browning at her nursing home bed, I felt my mind relax and my weight sink into the ground. I began to feel light-headed as I became more reposed. Although feeling like I could drift into sleep, I also experienced a sense of heightened awareness. As Mrs. Browning lay motionless before my gaze, I suddenly heard a loud, deep moan and scream and wondered if the nursing home personnel heard it....In the next moment, as this cry of pain and torment continued, I realized it was Mrs. Browning. I felt the mid-section of my body open and noticed a strange quality to the light in the room. I sensed her soul in agony. As she screamed I heard her say, in confusion, 'Why am I still here... why am I here?' My soul touched hers and in some way I communicated that she was still locked to her body. I promised I would do everything in my power to gain the release her soul cried for. with that the screaming immediately stopped. I felt like I was back in my head again."
33. On page 75, Felos says: "Before our son was conceived, my then wife and I went through a long and arduous process trying to decide if we should have a child. Given that our marriage was never very stable, the familiar arguments against creating progeny seemed at times hard to overcome....One morning, while still generally engaged in that process, I walked into my office, and about half way to my desk was hammer- struck. While almost seeing stars like a comic book character, I heard the soul of my yet- to-be-conceived child emphatically shout: I'm ready to be born... will you stop this fooling around!'...The voice I heard was distinctly male, and I beamed with the idea I had a son - or was going to have a son - or sorta had a son out there - or something like that."
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34. On page 216, again discussing Estate of Browning, Mr. Felos writes about the late Estelle M. Browning: "As I always did, I looked into her eyes and shouted to her, hoping for some response or sign. After a minute or two I sat in the chair by the foot of her bed, closed my eyes, and started to meditate. Having 'soulspoken' with Mrs. Browning when we first met, I decided, with a measure of earnest self-inflation, to purposefully initiate such contact. I settled into my breath and noticed all the passing sounds move through my consciousness. As I deepened my relaxation, I reached out with my awareness to see if I could touch her soul-presence. From deep inside I repeated, 'Mrs. Browning, it's okay to leave your body. There is no reason to stay in this body. It is all right to die now.' A few minutes into my meditative encouragement, I was jarred by a high-pitched sarcastic cackle and the words, 'You're telling me to drop my body - and you can't even get out of your head.' Apparently, Mrs. Browning had a spirited sense of humor!"
35. On pages 181-182 of his book, Felos claims that merely by visualizing a plane crash during a flight he was taking back to Florida, he caused the plane to begin to crash and that God spoke to him at that moment to warn him: "Be careful what you think. You are more powerful than you realize'.....I was startled, humbled, and blessed by God's admonishment."
36. Co-conspirator Felos clearly is not simply an advocate for Michael Schiavo in the Florida state courts; he is an investor in Mrs. Schiavo's case who stands to profit financially via her judicially-sanctioned death and the book he told the St. Petersburg Times he wants to write about the case and his "spiritual journey" with Theresa Schiavo. As his first work, Litigation as Spiritual Practice, indicates, Mr. Felos is an egomaniacal
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visionary who views Terri's hoped-for death as a fulfillment of his personal messianic mission as the savior of severely disabled and seriously ill people who need to die. He is a protagonist in a drama in which he sees himself as a lead character.
Regarding Michael’s 180 flip to seek Terri’s starvation execution, the following is offered in the same documentations of the above case:
37. In connection with the proceeding, Schiavo announced his recollection that sometime in the mid-1980s, Terri informally remarked, with reference to her grandmother's ultimately terminal illness, that in the event of her own serious illness, she did not want to be maintained "on anything artificial". Defendant Schiavo alleged a recollection of other generalized remarks to that effect.
38. Defendant Schiavo's position that his wife would not want to live by means of food and hydration administered through a G tube was completely contrary to his testimony before the medical malpractice case jury.
39. At the time of Terri's alleged remarks in the mid-1980s, Florida law did not include food and hydration among the forms of medical care that could be terminated based on the alleged prior directives of a patient, and deprivation of food and hydration would have constituted the crime of euthanasia under Florida law at the time Terri allegedly made her comment to defendant Schiavo about "anything" (or "nothing") artificial". It was not until October 1, 1999 that the law was amended to include food and hydration given via a G tube.
40. Terri's alleged remarks about "anything artificial" said nothing about the withdrawal of food, hydration, and rehabilitative therapy.
41. Under Felos' guidance, there were about five years of legal proceedings in the Florida state courts, during most of which Terri was not represented by a guardian ad litem.
Do you know that he lived on an island and ate fish he caught and drank goat's milk? I think during his time on the island, HE GOT TOO MUCH SUN and it fried his brain.
Felos seems to see himself as a guru. I'm forever curious in why Judge Greer is consistently siding with husband and Attorney Felos.
Maybe when Felos was a State Attorney, he found out something about Judge Greer that remains a secret and wouldn't that be powerful leverage?
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