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.
If she tried to say anything at all, that would indicate that she is NOT brain dead. It wouldn't matter which words she was attempting to speak.
And that would be who? As per floriduh voter who was at the hospice, a cop heard Terri. But he stated that she answered "no" to the question "Do you want to live?". PVS people speak? The cop has now been ordered to shutup. Btw, there are 3 cops in her room and 2 at the door.
You've missed the point. She's SUPPOSED to be PVS and not able to speak. Except that she did.
Not her mother. An attorney.
[If it were that simple this scam would not have made it 16 years and through many many hearings and judgments. If she was capable of not only reacting to stimulus, but speaking, doctors who have and are treating her would not be sucked into lying about that by the arguable charms of Michael Schiavo. ]
You are either very young or very naive. This is nothing more than an egotistical judge and a money-grubbing, "I'll do what I want to do" husband who are both simply tired of the inconvenience of dealing with Terri.
If you had been paying attention to all the details you would have seen and heard evidence that she is not a total vegetable. There is no evidence what so ever other than the husband's say so (after he won his case against a doctor that paid him a lot of money) that she would not want to live in this state. He was all for keeping her alive then. Since, he has denied treatment and has limited the visits of her family. The guy is either a nut job or has something to hide.
"...legally classified as being in a persistent vegitative state..."
Many were the dissidents in Soviet gulags who were legally classified as being in an unsound mental state, thus sentencing them to incarceration. In Terri's case, the sentence is death.
I don't know if anyone has given you info yet but this document was filed to request pictures of Terri before her death because they aren't allowed.
Motion to Photograph (Guardianship case - February 28, 2005)
You apparently know this judge, legally blind, has never VISITED Terri? You know her window providing SUNLIGHT has been ordered SHUT? You know she has no received therapy for swallowing or other such life sustaining behavior?
So you take the word of a blind judge over the wishes of loving parents.
You, young missy, are a purveyor of a culture of death.
It seems to me from my understanding is that the husband was supposedly beaten this woman and he don't want to divorce her until he can get some kind of money from her death! Does anyone really know what happened to Terri Schivao?
My wifes mother was in a coma for a month and on a feeding tube and certain doctors wanted to throw in the towel and let her die, but thank God my wife was a nurse and knew a doctor who would never give up and as a result her mother pulled through and had ten more years of life until she finally succumbed to Alzeinhers Disease! She went rapidly into the final stages of the disease and now she is in a nursing home being taken care of by good folks who care about life!
What is really scary to me is that Congress is going to open up a whole new can of worms and they will say who lives or die! Mostly the well to do folks will get to live and those who don't have money, they will rule them to die! It seems like Nazi Germany is coming into play in our United States!
Terrie's husband must really be evil to want that death money so badly! Why can't he just divorce her and let her real loving family take care of her? Hell sure is going to fill fast with these barbaric inhumane people who want to play God!
Randall Terry mentioned a name on Hannity and Colmes tonight. I can't recall it right now.
They will never say no to partial birth abortion and the murders of all those babies will be on their hands forever. God help them all....God help them all. the babies I mean. As for the others...well, they will have to make a stand one day before their maker. That'll be a whole different story.
What life support? Food?
Arent some of you a little skeptical of Randall Terry? I wouldnt put it past him to lie to save Terri...after all what is a little lie in the service of life.
Then you need to accuse Barbara Weller of lying too. She is on tape relating her story. Are you prepared to do that too?
There is no legal classification for PVS. Where did you get that idea? Physicians argue about it in professional journals constantly. The particular physician who said this about Terri in court also said it about a policeman who had been shot, that the policeman should be dehydrated to death as he would never awaken.
And the policeman not only awakened but is back at work.
Did you read the article? Barbara Weller spoke to the press. This article was only the guys version told on Hannity and Colmes. Terri's sister was also on. Terri's sister Suzanne was just on Hannity on tv, and repeated the same thing. Terri was practically yelling, people in the hall heard her.
In Terri's case, there is a port in her abdomen.
Researchers concluded, "The vegetative state needs considerable skill to diagnose, requiring assessment over a period of time; diagnosis cannot be made, even by the most experienced clinician, from a bedside assessment." [Andrews et al., "Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state," British Medical Journal, 7/6/96]
The British study is one of the largest and most comprehensive investigations on PVS to date. Its findings are similar to an earlier U.S. study which found that, of the PVS patients who were referred to the Healthcare Rehabilitation Center in Austin, Texas, 38% were not vegetative at all and actually responded to stimuli upon subsequent examination.
All 17 misdiagnosed patients were found to range in cognitive ability from level 5 (aware but severely impaired) to level 8 (nearly normal) on the Rancho Los Amigos scale. [BMJ, 7/6/96]
In a BMJ editorial, Minneapolis neurologist Ronald Cranford pointed out that the quality of life of the 17 misdiagnosed patients was still questionable. "I would speculate," Cranford wrote, "that most people would find this condition far more horrifying than the vegetative state itself, and some might think it an even stronger reason for stopping treatment" (i.e., food and fluids).
Thus laying the path for the next in line, those not in PVS but having a disability.
Professor David Morton, head of the bioethics department at Birmingham University, recently told the Edinburgh International Science Festival that PVS patients, rather than animals, should be used in medical experimentation. According to Morton, PVS patients would provide "much more accurate information for experiments than chimpanzees."
That's right. The Nazis aren't really coming back to life right under our noses. Nope. Nothing to worry about.
I felt terrible guilt eating dinner tonite. I felt unworthy to even eat. I will feel the same when breakfast rolls around and I have to feed my family.
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