Posted on 03/18/2005 2:55:38 PM PST by spycatcher
A mentally disabled woman whose court ordered starvation-execution began Friday attempted to contradict her estranged husband's claim that she wants to die hours before her feeding tube was disconnected, an eyewitness is claiming.
Barbara Weller, an attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, told reporters Friday afternoon that during her visit earlier in the day she told Ms. Schiavo:
"Terri, if you would just say, 'I want to live,' - all of this will be over."
According to pro-life activist Randall Terry, who recounted the scene to radio host Sean Hannity, Schiavo tried desperately to repeat Weller's words.
"'I waaaaannt . . .' Schiavo allegedly said, in a prolonged yell that had police stationed nearby running into her hospice room.
"She just started yelling, 'I waaaannt, I waaaannt,'" Terry said, according to Weller's account.
At that point police ejected Weller, he said.
"Why would a guard that is bought and paid for by M.Schiavo be expected to testify to anything beneficial to the Schindlers?"
So off-duty cops in Florida can now be bribed at the rate of $25/hr ?
I suppose the Schindlers could just offer to double it ...
Isn't there a doctor in the house that will stand before her and block this action?
If that guy in Tiannenmen Square can stand up to a tank, can't someone stand up to this judge?
Prayers for this poor young woman.
Even if its not true its a claim that needs to be made. It would give Jeb the cover he needs to remove her by force.
Lying is not right but then "Never let your sense of moral prevent you from doing what is right."
"You are putting the words that you want to hear in her mouth."
It seems to me it wouldn't matter what she said - just that she said something. This would prove that she isn't brain dead and should nullify the judge's order.
Here is a horrible article at ABC News.
How Will Terri Schiavo Die?
The Body's Mechanisms for Allowing Death Can Be Very Peaceful
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Schiavo/story?id=531907&page=1
"The process of starving to death seems very barbaric but in actuality is very peaceful," said Dr. Fred Mirarchi, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Some people can last four or five days — some people can last 20 days," she said.
"It depends on whether she has the ability to swallow anything — and if that anything is offered," she said. "If she's unable to swallow anything, the course toward dying, so far as anyone can tell, is fairly comfortable."
Most patients who cannot eat or drink will enter a physical state known as ketosis. During ketosis the body begins to use fat and muscle as a fuel source.
In advanced cases of ketosis, the nervous system response is dulled, and patients rarely feel pain, hunger or thirst. There is also some evidence that ketosis can produce a state of well-being or mild euphoria.
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But if we tried to starve criminals sentecned to death, as a method of execution, just watch all the same people scream what "cruel and unusual punishment" that is.
Not sure what the rate is.
Recording devices banned?
How about guns?
A much better test of her ability to think and will to live, anyway:
We'll get Judge GrimReeper and the cheating husband in the room and let Terri decide who wants to die.
Victims' Rights Group Questions Court-Ordered Starvation of Terri Schiavo, an Innocent Woman
3/18/2005 6:01:00 PM
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=44619
To: National Desk, Legal Reporter
Contact:
Contact: Michael Paranzino of Throw Away The Key, 202-253-4863 or media@throwawaythekey.org;
Web: http://www.throwawaythekey.org
WASHINGTON, March 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Throw Away The Key, a victim advocacy group that works on behalf of past and future victims of crime, issued the following statement tonight about the case of Terri Schiavo, whose death sentence was started today, with the removal of her feeding tube:
"America's courts can't have it both ways," said Michael Paranzino, president of Throw Away The Key. "When it comes to serial killers, cop killers, and other monsters, the courts bend over backwards to keep them alive. Even twenty years later, most convicted killers are still enjoying three square meals a day. But the courts have not hesitated to order Ms. Schiavo killed, based solely on a self-serving and unconfirmed claim about something she once allegedly said while watching TV. Her only crime is being inconvenient.
"Either Terri Schiavo deserves the same, decades-long court delays that killers routinely get, or it's time to begin enforcing the death penalty with the same passion that the courts are exhibiting in their thirst to kill an innocent woman," Paranzino added.
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Throw Away The Key is on the web at http://www.throwawaythekey.org, and its new judicial reform project is on the web at http://www.judgesgonewild.com .
http://www.usnewswire.com/
Courtesy Viva Christo Rey
Terri doesn't have much time. Apparently doctors are giving Terri massive amounts of morphine, under the guise of pain management, to kill her more quickly (before she can be rescued)
I feel just sick over this injustice.
If you haven't already written, would some of you write to Gov. Bush and the Speaker, and send them a link to this video?:
http://www.hedgersoftware.com/terrilaughs.wmv
"She just started yelling, 'I waaaannt, I waaaannt,'...
What if it was: 'I waaaannt... to end this suffering'
How do you know ??
Instead the $1M was spent on legal fees to kill her. All the while, her lack of improvement (BECAUSE of this misapproriation of funds) was posited as a reason to "let her die". Witness the preponderance of the phrase "persistent vegetative state", which is a complete lie.
That's bull! You don't want to die you eant to live. She would have said good if that is what she wished. She could have blinked yes.
I have been praying to St Jude, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus, our Heavenly Father, and St. Joseph (his saint's day is tomorrow) ever since I heard that the feeding tube was removed today. I have asked for a miracle that somehow Teri would be able to communicate her desire to live in some way to those around her. I will keep on praying and ask all of you to join me in asking for this miracle to save this beautiful lady. I have faith that she is trying to tell people of her desire to live.
"WHAT HAPPENS to non-terminally ill people with cognitive disabilities whose feeding tubes are removed? Do they suffer from the process?"
"When I conducted research on this question in preparation for writing my book "Forced Exit," I asked St. Louis neurologist William Burke these very questions. Here is what he told me: "
A conscious [cognitively disabled] person would feel it just as you or I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the pangs of hunger and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of water! Death by dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an extremely agonizing death. Dehydration article.
GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF A DEATH BY DEHYDRATION
Doctor details Scientologist's death
By CHERYL WALDRIP of The Tampa Tribune
Published in The Tampa Tribune Jan. 23, 1997
CLEARWATER - Medical tests indicate Lisa McPherson was without fluids for at least five to 10 days of her stay at the Church of Scientology's world spiritual headquarters.
Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Joan Wood said it's possible McPherson, who died in December 1995, had nothing to drink throughout her 17-day stay at the Fort Harrison Hotel.
I thought Michael wasn't Catholic. I know Terri is, so him denying her Extreme Unction is literally denying her the faith she grew up with.
Get her some therapy and we'd be able to find out, rather than having to guess.
Yes!!
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