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FATHER FEARS DOCTORS WILL HASTEN TERRI'S DEATH

1 hour, 42 minutes ago U.S. National - AFP

PINELLAS PARK, United States (AFP) - The father of Terri Schiavo made a desperate, 11th hour appeal for authorities to reconnect a feeding tube to his severely brain-damaged daughter, and said he feared doctors might try to hasten her death.

"I have a grave concern that they'll expedite the process to kill her with an overdose of morphine," Bob Schindler told the press Monday outside the hospice where his 41-year old daughter is a patient.

"She's alive and she's fighting like hell to live," he added, remarking on his daughter's "amazing, amazing endurance."

Schindler added that when he visited his daughter Monday, she was "still showing facial expressions" -- among other signs of interaction.


"She's trying to talk but it's very, very subdued," Schindler said. "All we need, if it's not too late, is for someone to save her," he said.

Schindler made his plea on Schiavo's 11th day without food and water Monday, and with experts saying her death could come at any time.

Schiavo was given what could be her last communion Sunday as protesters opposed to allowing the woman die challenged police and blocked entry to the Florida hospice where she is cared for.

Relatives kept an Easter vigil near the woman throughout Sunday. Absent, however, was Schiavo's mother Mary Schindler, who failed for the first time since the feeding tube was removed on March 18, to take her place at Schiavo's bedside.

A family confidant said Mary Schindler was overcome with grief that, despite years of legal battles, she had been unable to save her daughter, who has been on life support since suffering brain damage 15 years ago.

Robert Schindler said Monday he also had had to overcome his fear of watching his daughter waste away.

"I was scared to death to go in there to see her, for fear of what I'd see. But she has just incredible strength to live," he said.

After Michael Schiavo gave permission for his wife to receive communion, a drop of holy wine was placed on Terri Schiavo's tongue, but she could not receive even a tiny piece of the host because her mouth was so dry, said the Father Tadeusz Malanowski, who administered the sacrament.

Michael Schiavo, insists that his wife should be allowed to die, and that she did not want to be kept alive artificially. Doctors have said she is in a "persistent vegetative state."

The family insists she could improve if given proper treatment, but their legal efforts, including getting a special law passed to have the tube reinserted have failed.

The battle has raged through the Florida's courts and legislature, but escalated after the US Congress stepped in and passed an unprecedented bill, quickly signed by President George W. Bush, allowing the case to be heard in federal court.

Since then, the family has suffered a string of court defeats including one on Saturday, when a state judge rejected the family's argument that Schiavo had tried to say "I want to live" before her feeding tube was removed.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the president's brother, said Monday he had exhausted his options in his efforts to save Schiavo.

"It just breaks my heart that we have not erred on the side of life," he said Monday, but reiterated that there was nothing within the law that he could do at this point.

"There is no means by which we can get involved more than we've already done," the Florida governor said. "My guess is there is very little left for the government to do."

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1,074 posted on 03/28/2005 1:41:34 PM PST by amdgmary (Please visit www.terrisfight.org and www.theempirejournal.com)
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To: amdgmary
"My guess is there is very little left for the government to do."

Your GUESS, Jeb? Your GUESS?

This comment has *really* ticked me off.

Terri's DYING and YOU, Jeb are GUESSING???? Unreal.

1,120 posted on 03/28/2005 2:11:02 PM PST by Velveeta (Lord, hear our prayer.......Terri is thirsty)
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To: amdgmary
words of Jeb Bush:
"My guess is there is very little left for the government to do."



His GUESS is???!!!

A woman is dying of thirst in a hospice surrounded by armed guards,
on the orders of a swamp judge who illegally ordered Florida's Department of Children and Families and the State Police to stand down, and who refuses to
hear the evidence that Terri wants to live, rejecting sworn affidavits testifying to this simply because they were filed three days late, AND GOVERNOR BUSH GUESSES THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO??????


GUESS AGAIN, MR. GOVERNOR!!!!!!

Have you even bothered to read the legal documents submitted to you that show without a doubt there is PLENTY you can do right now to save her life?

No, I didn't think so.

Your lack of leadership is nothing short of disgusting.
1,121 posted on 03/28/2005 2:11:06 PM PST by Deo volente (God willing, Terri Schiavo will live.)
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