Posted on 03/26/2005 7:20:40 PM PST by EveningStar
Bob and Mary Schindler, both practicing Catholics, urged dozens of supporters gathered outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo is being cared for to go home for Easter.
"The family would request that everyone go home, be with your children, hold them close and share every moment you have with them," said Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk who is a spiritual adviser to the Schindlers.
It was not clear if the Schindlers had finally abandoned all legal avenues in their fight to restart their 41-year-old daughter's feeding, a cause that embroiled the Florida legislature, the U.S. Congress and President Bush.
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Be that as it may, the Florida court of Appeals set the bar about that high in describing the kind of evidence that was required to compel reconsideration of Greer's findings.
I'm still getting flamed for commenting to your last post. Apparently I'm loony for believing there's something evil about torturing people to death for being disabled. Apparently there's no such thing as evil, and there's a big difference between torturing people to death for being disabled and torturing people to death for being disabled, if it's done by people who speak different languages.
Now I'm going to say that it's evil to deny Terri the Last Rites. I'll just sit back and wait for the flamers to catch up and tell me again that there's no such thing as evil, and denying Terri the Last Rites is the Christian thing to do.
He doesn't care if she is conscious.
The very basis upon which she is being killed that she is not.
Judge Greer is a f***king murderous Monster.
As with Job, may they be likewise blessed.
It's so hard.
I cannot fathom what my anger would be with Christ. As it is, I get 'in the flesh.'
May the Love of Christ work through out their family.
May the Truth of Christ sustain us in the dark days.
There is no support in FL for any of the three criteria you outlined. People there are too busy working and amusing themselves to clean up the corruption.
It may be so, but the death of Christ makes this pale in comparison. As I said, I understand the sentiment. I was feeling the same.
Turn the page and look what happens after Death. We'll celebrate that Victory tomorrow.
PistolPaknMama,That is the only clip they showed here locally.She is our girl,lived up the road.Was he on drugs when he did this interview?
Right defeated is greater and stronger than evil triumphant.
God, please forgive this nation.
He is going to rot in hell.
Good thing he's acting in her "best interest" (/sarcasm)
I am kind of irritated with DeLay too: he could have made the law of March 21 a little plainer so that the federal judge could have understood what he was supposed to do. Now, DeLay wants to drop the whole Terri matter, and we won't hear any more about it.
He was not starved to death like Terri is being, but he could not eat much during his final days. It was horrid. I remember holding liquids up to him and he would drink as he could through a straw. It was so painful to see him like that. I could only let go because I knew he didn't have a chance, and was in pain.
Terri did have a chance, wasn't in pain, but thanks to her pathetic, greedy husband she did not get it.
Dying a slow painful death like Terri is, is anything but beautiful.
My prayers are going out to her dear parents for strength, as they deal with the senseless torture of their daughter.
Michael Slimebag and Greer have Terri's blood on their hands. I would hope for many sleepness nights for them, but as I feel they don't have consciences, I doubt that will happen.
I'll be praying with you.
thanks.
GWB had the duty to save Terri and he didn't have the courage. Jeb had the duty to save Terri and he didn't have the courage.
This was a trap laid years in advance. The statute on end-of-life care was amended, through the work of a cabal of euthanasia activists, in 1999--with the signature of Jeb Bush. It legalized all the actions taken by Michael Schiavo. Then Terri was moved into a hospice run by the same cabal of Hemlock Society people, for a trial run of their new law. Their trial run has been a complete success, thanks to the inability of Jeb Bush to punch his way out of a paper bag--and the paper bag is the myth of Judicial Supremacy.
Jeb Bush and George Bush--the "pro-lifers" who were instrumental in bringing legal, involuntary euthanasia to America.
Terri and the Schindlers were the marks for this sting.
Somebody can correct me but when I was reading the various Florida bills that led up to the one that allows for feeding tubes to be removed they included language that protected the caregivers and others related to the decision and act itself. If that language made it to the final bill, her cause of death will be due to the removal of the feeding tube and I think they will be immune from any charges.
No.
For that premise to be true they'd have to know the outcome. I realize the spin afterward has been this was a strategy, but it's just spin. They honestly didn't know which direction this would go, just as Reps didn't. Reps supported Life anyway. Dems hid in the shadows fearful of taking a position either way because it'd blow up in their faces.
That is cowardice.
At the moment, they have to claim that starvation is peaceful. But later, the NewAgeNazis will claim that starvation is horrible and it's better to put the person to death with drugs.
To everyone with words of hope and encouragement....God Bless You! To all those who feel as outraged as I do...keep up the fight!
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