[Spyder]

Here is the timeline (AP) I posted in #179. Where would this fit into the timeline?

Events in the legal battle between the husband and parents of Terri Schiavo after she collapsed of a heart attack on Feb. 25, 1990.

November 1992: Terri's husband, Michael, wins malpractice suit that accused doctors of misdiagnosing his wife; jury awards more than more than $700,000 for her care, Michael receives an additional $300,000.

Feb. 14, 1993: Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have a falling out with Michael over the money and Terri's care.

Right about here - if it was 7 years ago, that comes out to about 1996, and she was *still?* receiving therapy at that point.

May 1998: Michael Schiavo files petition to remove Terri's feeding tube.

[MHGinTN]

I may be mistaken, but I'm recalling that when Michael petitioned Greer to fire the state appointed guardian, in late 1993, one of the issues brought up by the state guardian was the failure of Michael to pay for therapy and it had been stopped. This was one of the falling out factors soon after the state guardian was removed, with the Schindlers and Michael since they had signed on to having Michael appointed the guardian!

[huck von finn]

We could be wrong. Maybe the article was inaccurate. But if it's correct, then she probably wasn't making the progress her family had hoped for during that time.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

Thou Shall Not Kill - Exodus 20:13

10 Commandments: Exodus 20:13
Thou Shall Not Kill

The sixth of the ten commandments reads, “Thou shall not kill.” The New International Version translates it, “Thou shall not murder.” This is more accurate because the Hebrew word so translated does not refer to killing in general but to malicious and unlawful killing.

Neither accidental killing (Numbers 35:22-25) nor justifiable homicide (Ex. 22:2) are a breaking of the sixth commandment. Neither killing in war nor capital punishment are necessarily forbidden in this commandment since God required both in certain cases (Ex.21:12). So the preferred translation is, “You shall not murder.”

Why is it wrong to murder? We kill cows, we swat flies, we put pets to sleep. Why is it wrong to do any of these things to humans? God’s answer is that only humans are made in the image of God. This is why we are not to kill people like we might decide to kill an animal. Humans have special dignity and worth and human life is to be treated as of special worth since we are made in the image of God.

When we disregard what God says to us about the special value of human life, we begin to diminish the value of human life and we remove the only inherent hedge against murder. What has happened in our own culture after we removed God and prayer from the public schools a generation ago? Now we can’t stop the killing - IN THE SCHOOLS! As our belief in God has declined, murder has become epidemic.

The human slaughter that occurred in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia illustrates what happens when a society disregards God’s word about the inherent value of humanity. Remove the foundation for the preservation of human life and you remove the restraint against murder. As Dostoevsky put it, “If there is no God, all things are permitted.” Or in the words of T. S. Eliot, “If you would not

Jesus says there is a very real connection between unjust anger and murder (Mtt. 5:21-22). John says hatred is tantamount to murder (1 Jn. 3:11-18) because hatred is what leads to murder and is caused by the same deficiency that leads to murder - a failure to value human life and treat people with the special dignity of creatures made in the image of God.