Posted on 03/03/2005 9:24:10 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida
A judge released the DCF document seeking intervention in the Terri Schiavo case. She's the brain-damaged woman at the center of a "right to die" battle.
The department of children and families document names Michael Schiavo as responsible for the mistreatment of his wife. The nine complaints cited are very technical. They essentially claim the abuse or neglect of Terri is in the form of the kind of medical treatment Terri is, or in some cases is not receiving.
The complaint accuses Michael Schiavo of: 1. Failure to educate using certain therapies in violation of guardianship 2. Experimental procedures performed without proper medical and legal procedures observed. 3. Lack of manipulation of the ward's (Terri’s) arms causing severe contractures
Circuit judge George Greer says he will make the document available to the public tomorrow. Greer ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be removed March 18th.
Does anyone know if Greer can tell them to take a hike and not allow them the 60 days? If he can, I'd be moving out of Florida real quick.
Why would you move out of our beautiful State???
Would you move to Canada, as some said they would do after the election???
Yes, taking care of Terri at home may be more difficult than I think it will be, but it is what the Schindlers are willing to do if FL will allow them to do so.
You sure can hire lots of help to care for Teri with $1,8 million!!!
Maybe sending Terri home with her parents is the answer to all this. Keep in mind that they already once put her back in hospice care because they couldn't take care of her.
They didn't have $1.8 million then! Don't you think they could hire a lot of help to care for Terri with that kind of money???
Hubby and I visited the Holocaust Museum in DC in May of 2004 and they showed video of what Hitler's regime did to the disabled. It made me sick.
I lived 5 years under German occupation!
These videos should constantly be shown in every school classes in the U.S.!!
Our grandchildren would then see the world with other eyes!!!
If you had read prevoius threads, many people have offered to pay for her care. So now we should terminate people because it would be expensive to care for them?
My post 276 was a quote from Zark's own profile!!!
MY grandmother had Parkinsons disease and also had a feeding tube near the end. But she still had her wit and her mind and was sharp as a tack to the end. But it was a mutual decision between her and my grandfather to maintain sustinence. She was of sound mind and was able to sound off her reasons to continue on.
Terri cannot voice those same reasons, that is why Michael was appointed her guardian, so as to speak for her wishes..
All those issues of sound mind decisions are just percieved to be on her behalf. But they are assumed. Just because one has involuntary muscle activity does not mean one has mental capability to feel. So all from that going onward are assumptions on both sides of the issue and there is clearly no side that is totally right or totally wrong other than the legal right of a guardian to do what he felt obligated to do 10 years ago.
Aren't the doctors on behalf of her parents also hand picked for their beliefs??? From the sounds of their opinions they are seeking a living guniea pig to perform experiments on. There are sure a lot of would's could's involved in their speculative prognosis.
The problem with this idea is that the therapies were not failing. Terri was making slow progress. The fact that she was making progress at all should have sent him to fight to continue the efforts, but he stopped her therapies, even though $$ was awarded to help defray the cost of them. He never even followed up on the procedure to remove the implants in her brain, as was recommended by the doctor who performed the experimental procedure on her. Why did he stop? The money had come in and Terri was making progress.
If you haven't known this before now, I can excuse you from believing as you do. However, now knowing it, can you still think he had nothing but the best of intentions towards his wife?
When has Schiavo ever been denied his rights? Seems to me, he's the only one who's getting to exercise them, not Terri. She has retained rights that Michael has completely ignored.
Although Kevorkian played the part of someone who cared for the ill and dying, his actions eventually revealed him for the selfish sicko that he is. That's why I don't appreciate being called that name. On the other hand, I don't have a problem at all stating that I believe people have the right to receive assistance if needed to find peace from a life they don't want, in a way that they can manage. I believe it is compassionate to assist in truly voluntary situations...Although I respect those who worry about a slippery slope into involuntary euthanasia, I think we could come up with safeguards, and it's my belief that the socialist control-freak do-gooders are actually just trying to block all euthanasia.
"A husband certainly should not have sole rights to determine if his wife lives or dies. A wife is not a posession or property. " you say.
I guess you think congress should vote every time to see if a personal decision is ok? How many people do you think need be involved in a personal decision? Usually the number ONE comes to mind. That is why it is called a personal decision. One can ask for advise and confer with others. But that does not make the confidant inclusive in the decision. The state does not have the right to interfere in personal adult decisions. Period!
If he's not smelling impeachment, he ought to be smelling a prison term.
Best analogy of the argument I have seen in a long while! Props to you (and Jesus)!
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