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Smoking Gun

Below is posted one of the physicians' obligations regarding living wills under Florida law

"The attending physician and one other physician must certify in writing that the patient is in a terminal condition."

Even with a living will it must be determined that a patient is in terminal condition before it can be implemented.

Terri is not in a terminal condition. Unless you define life, itself as a terminal condition.

If this restriction exists, even with a living will present, how can a judge implement an order based only on the word of a third party? Especially since the patient is not in a terminal condition.

The same restriction surely applies in the abscence of a written directive.

Of course this probably doesn't matter. But I think the court overstepped its bounds, bigtime.

It must have helped greatly to have Felos on the Hospice board at the time Terri was admitted, when was that, THREE years ago?

Hospice has broken its own rules to admit Terri to their compassionate (in most cases) death chamber.

Their rules on their own website, HospiceFoundations.org, states that they only accept TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS, in the last stages, and at that, all means of rehabilitation and cure must have been exhausted. Terri fits NEITHER PARAMETER.

They are open for a lawsuit.

And to boot, THREE YEARS of isolation, no TV, no doctoring unless agreed to by Michael, no attention, no stimulation (per Michaels direct orders) were given.

No comfort for terri. Michael must have DEEPLY wanted her to die, alone and hurting having given up the will to live.

Terri fooled him and angered him.

So much that Michael has taken to punishing the parents by disallowing visits off and on, and just lately, DIDN't EVEN BOTHER TO TELL THEM HE WAS MOVING HER FROM THE HOSPITAL TO THE HOSPICE...is that NOT THE HEIGHT OF CRUELTY????

I don't understand all the connections between the lendermans, the greers the schiavos and the felos character etc with this hospice, the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas cty, but I do know one thing...this HOSPICE has a LOT of QUESTIONS to answer for and they deserve a few well placed phone calls.