The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo's Right-to-Die Lawyer George "Killer" Felos

Catholic Citizen.org ^ | 10.24.03

[Coleus]

TORA! TORA! TORA! The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo's Right-to-Die Lawyer George "Killer" Felos

 

Thrilled to Death: Euthanasia proponent George Felos is Michael Schiavo's lawyer

CLEARWATER, October 23, 2003  - The motivation behind Michael Schiavo's dire quest to end the life of his severely disabled wife is not certain. He has a child and another on the way with another woman but a divorce would suffice in that case. However, there is the suggestion that he has life insurance money pending on her death - a suggestion which he has refused to comment on.

Moreover Terri's parents suspect he was to blame for his wife's condition and see that as the reason he has requested her body be cremated. His claim is that Terri told him she did not want to be given extraordinary medical treatment to be kept alive. However, the motivation behind Michael Schiavo's lawyer George Felos, in fighting the case is ideological.

Felos has been described as "a right-to-die activist, new-age guru lawyer with a messed up personal history." Felos has authored a book called "Litigation as Spiritual Practice" published by Blue Dolphin Publishing. The ad for the book calls him "a nationally recognized expert in right-to-die cases." It notes "He is best known for the landmark case that helped establish an individual's constitutional right to refuse or have withdrawn unwanted medical treatment, Guardianship of Browning, and the current case of a vegetative young woman, Terri Schiavo."

Right-to-Die activists play on the term "medical treatment" suggesting that it includes being given food and water. They suggest that patients who are not otherwise dying but are unable to ingest food by mouth should be allowed to refuse (or have withheld) food and water and thus die by starvation. Pro-life leaders in Holland have warned that a case along those very lines opened the door to euthanasia in the Netherlands.

A special on Felos published in the St. Petersburg Times in 2001 revealed that Felos, has taken on about 10 right-to-die cases in the last decade. The in depth interview with Felos notes he is into meditation, yoga, and inviting friends over to chant, "I am that I am. I am that I am." Of his beliefs he told the paper, "I believe that Christ was God incarnate and was resurrected. But, by the same token, I believe that there were other incarnations of God as well."

He relates that in one case similar to Terri's he stared into the woman's eyes and while she could not speak he claims his spiritual side heard her soul cry out "Why am I still here?"

The paper also reported that he was in the final stages of a divorce from his second wife.

See the St. Petersburg Times and the ad from Blue Dolphin:

http://www.sptimes.com/News/052501/Floridian/The_spirit_and_the_la.shtml  

http://www.bluedolphinpublishing.com/Felos.htm

[Coleus]

Ah, I don't know about that, I still believe that the New Age Movement is inherently evil. And "who" are "they" that makes New Ageism a Religion.

[Cultural Jihad]

Well, for the record there's no one characterizing this lawyer as adhering to so-called "new age" except you and some annonymous allegation in the article: "Felos has been described as ..." but without any link or substantiation.

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Bump!

[Arthur McGowan]

Catholics do not believe that saints' bones possess magical powers! Catholics do not practice or promote magic.

There is such a thing as magic--and all of it that is genuine is due to demonic activity.

[nickcarraway]

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27. In the Encyclical on Christian Education[10] We explained the fundamental doctrine concerning man as it may be gathered from reason and Faith. Man has a spiritual and immortal soul. He is a person, marvelously endowed by his Creator with gifts of body and mind. He is a true "microcosm," as the ancients said, a world in miniature, with a value far surpassing that of the vast inanimate cosmos. God alone is his last end, in this life and the next. By sanctifying grace he is raised to the dignity of a son of God, and incorporated into the Kingdom of God in the Mystical Body of Christ. In consequence he has been endowed by God with many and varied prerogatives: the right to life, to bodily integrity, to the necessary means of existence; the right to tend toward his ultimate goal in the path marked out for him by God; the right of association and the right to possess and use property.