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FAMILY SPOKESPERSON: SCHIAVO FEEDING TUBE REMOVED!
Bay News 9 ^ | 3/18/05

Posted on 03/18/2005 12:18:38 PM PST by areafiftyone

A spokesperson for Michael Schiavo says Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed Friday with Michael in attendance.

He says a prayer service was held first, and that Michael was emotional and crying, saying he wanted to put the situation behind him.

Terri Schiavo's parents, the Schindlers, visited with Terri Friday morning, prior to the tube's removal.

Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge George Greer denied two U.S. House of Representative emergency motions Friday, which allowed the tube's removal.

The first motion was to intervene in the case for the House Committee on Government Reform and the second motion was to push the date back nine days so it could conduct what it calls a field investigation concerning the healthcare of Schiavo.

A neurologist appeared at Terri Schiavo's Pinellas Park hospice center Friday with a TV screen to show video of patients he treated that were in worse condition than Schiavo and got better.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cultofdeath; cultureofdeath; helpterri; lifelibertyhappiness; murder; protectterri; schiavo; secularhumanism; terri; terrischiavo
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To: areafiftyone
I just called my Senator's office over this case. What really makes me sick is that she is being denied the comfort that even a brain dead patient receives when removing organs. Every heart transplant that I have been involved with had a brain dead patient who received general anesthesia. These are patients who are flat line on an EEG, who do not breath on their own, and have zero response to pain are treated with more dignity than Terry has been.

Our courts are out of control and are turning monstrous. In just a few years humans will be euthanized if they can be deemed unfit to serve society. What is truly frightening to me is that families who agree with death by dehydration already euthanize family members without it ever making the news. Twenty five years ago when I started in the Nursing field this would have seemed cruel and unthinkable.

341 posted on 03/18/2005 1:44:23 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: camle

either this report is false or the one on WND that claims that congress saved her is.

Congress issued the subpoena and Judge Greer disregarded it and ordered the tube removed.

Gonna get interesting. Greer is in Contempt of Congress AND had evidence in the case destroyed.


342 posted on 03/18/2005 1:44:31 PM PST by loboinok (Gun Control is hitting what you aim at!)
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To: hillary's_fat_a**
"Michael won't last a year - he'll be wasted. Greer won't last a year - he'll be wasted.

Wow. I don't want to read too much into your comment but are you actually advocating the killing of the judge?

343 posted on 03/18/2005 1:44:50 PM PST by blaquebyrd
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To: areafiftyone

The more I find out about corruption locally the more I think the states need to be reined in by the feds.

Behold the relationship between Schiavo and a sheriff:

http://www.theempirejournal.com/0115056_sheriff_hired_michael_sc.htm


344 posted on 03/18/2005 1:45:03 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: Cathy

I feel the need to jump in here, in response to this post about Terri's wishes. It is true that we don't know what her wishes are right now, not even what they were when she was healthy unless we believe her husband (who I think has another agenda since he hasn't acted as a husband should). But, even if Terri had said on one occasion that she wouldn't want extreme measures taken to prolong her life, I have a personal story here about how that can change drastically once a person reaches what could be the end of their life:
My sister was a neurologist in Texas and therefore, treated many people with insidious, dignity-robbing diseases. She recommended to those that had were losing their ability to breathe on their own that the quality of life on a ventilator was not good and she recommended against her patients getting one. (Not that that was her decision to make, but I guess some patients asked her.) Anyway, she came down with ALS, which progressed very rapidly. When the time came that she couldn't breathe on her own any more, she chose to be on a ventilator immediately, without even a second thought.

The moral of my story is that when the end is near, I believe that most of us will want to fight for every second we have left and do all we can to stay here. Even if we've made a living will and even if we thought at one time that we didn't want to go through the indignities of being dependent. (Cases involving excruciating pain might be different.) My experience with my sister has totally changed my opinion on this isssue - and I am very sad that Terri is being killed. I am extremely sad for what her parents - I can't even imagine the emotional pain they are going through right now. Or how Terri's husband could be such a monster to Mr. and Mrs. Schindler, even IF he thinks he is doing what Terri would've wanted 2 decades ago.


345 posted on 03/18/2005 1:46:11 PM PST by Serenissima Venezia (Sniff...)
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To: d-informed-1
Better get a Living Will, or FReepers will try to "save" you - whether it is your will or not.

Familiarize yourself with the concept of personal responsibility. It should be the individual, not the state, that determines these questions.

346 posted on 03/18/2005 1:46:44 PM PST by Dolphy
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To: justshe

Amen, my dear.


347 posted on 03/18/2005 1:46:58 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: Howlin
Why is okay to call Mike Schiavo disgusting and not Sandy, isn't the poster just expressing his opinion. Regardless of how long you've been posting on FR you are entitled to your opinion. Not all posters are need, I read the FR years before I actually posted.
348 posted on 03/18/2005 1:47:21 PM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: marshmallow

"America just took one more step along the road to barbarism."

No MM, America just took one more step along the road OF barbarism.

I am not a Christian, but today, I believe I saw the face of the AntiChrist.


349 posted on 03/18/2005 1:47:41 PM PST by sodpoodle (sparrows are underrated)
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To: Dr. Frank fan
However, to dictate those "parameters" to others - and declare that other lives aren't "worth living" if they don't fall within your "parameters" - would be simply monstrous. Hopefully that's not what you're doing.

Wow, it's almost like you are starting to pick up on the fact that I said I.

350 posted on 03/18/2005 1:48:11 PM PST by biblewonk (Neither was the man created for woman but the woman for the man.)
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To: biblewonk
All I said is I wouldn't want to....

Fair enough, I believe you should have that right to decide. I don't believe it is the right of the government though.

351 posted on 03/18/2005 1:48:19 PM PST by Dolphy
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To: bboop

last time the tube had been removed for six days


352 posted on 03/18/2005 1:48:58 PM PST by ruoflaw
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To: Txsleuth

I heard they were told to leave the room before the tube was disconnected.


353 posted on 03/18/2005 1:49:20 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Pylot

That was Michael's story. Her parents deny this.


354 posted on 03/18/2005 1:49:29 PM PST by bperiwinkle7 ("In the beginning was the Word.....")
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To: superiorslots
I don't.

However.... there are people who have made statements/depositions about Terri responding to the kindness/tender mercies of those who tended her.

There are ALSO those who have talked of the distress/agitation of Terri , AFTER the whore-dog 'husband' was near her.

And just to set the record straight, r.e........her own parents for letting her live like that?? MAKE NO MISTAKE......it is NOT her parents who have made her live like this. THEY have fought to SPARE her from living this way. THEY have fought to provide her with the hope of rehab and improvement of her life. THEY have fought to regain their daughter, with NO MONETARY percs, so they can re-raise her, re-teach her just like when she was a little bitty toddler. THEY have an unconditional love.

355 posted on 03/18/2005 1:49:36 PM PST by mommadooo3
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To: biblewonk

"She has been a vegatable for 16 years "

There are medical professionals, including her doctors, who do not share that assessment. Tom DeLay, whom I would hope and think would not speak in an ill-informed manner, said that Terri is not being kept alive, but is in-fact alive.

As I understand, Terri is not require a breathing apparatus. If one can breathe on their own, it sure sounds like they are alive to me.


356 posted on 03/18/2005 1:49:37 PM PST by katieanna (Fear Not. Believe Only.)
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To: superiorslots

>Have you people considered that maybe Terri does not want to live like this???

Would you people want to live like Terri rest of your life? I sure would not.<

I don't think that anyone here "wants" to live like Terri. The difference is, some here believe that God never promised anyone on Earth an easy ride. If you end up in a state like Terri, then you have to truly give yourself over to God, who will not give you more than you can bear.

Look at this post (the URL from where it came is also below) and I think you can get a feel for Terri's desires:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365719/posts

PRESS RELEASE:
MARCH 18. 2005
2:00 PM EASTERN TIME

ATTORNEY BARBARA WELLER TOLD TERRI THAT THEY WERE GOING TO REMOVE HER FEEDING TUBE , TERRI BEGAN TO CRY AND TRIED TO SAY "I WANT TO LIVE" ATTORNEY WELLER SAID SHE HAD A DIFFICULT TIME CALMING TERRI DOWN.




357 posted on 03/18/2005 1:50:20 PM PST by Darnright (No matter how sick a person is, he is and will always be a man, never becoming a vegetable or animal)
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To: Dolphy

Quote: Surely you can't favor the idea of empowering the government to decide when God has spoken.

If God does not want her dead then she will not die when the feeding tube is removed.


358 posted on 03/18/2005 1:51:07 PM PST by superiorslots
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To: Dolphy

If I was a total veg and my wife knew I wanted the plug pulled but my mom fought it, then it seems to become a matter for the courts. That would be my mistake for not having a living will, which I don't.


359 posted on 03/18/2005 1:51:18 PM PST by biblewonk (Neither was the man created for woman but the woman for the man.)
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To: katieanna; biblewonk
A vegetable? laughing at jokes?

(Right-click, Save As...)

360 posted on 03/18/2005 1:51:39 PM PST by Lexinom
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