Posted on 03/31/2005 7:21:49 AM PST by roostercashews
Terri Schiavo (search) died Thursday morning around 10 a.m. EST after her parents had plead with her husband Michael Schiavo to allow them to be at their brain-damaged daughter's bedside in her final hours, a spokesman for the family said.
Schiavo died heading into her 14th day without food and water amid what could be the final legal setback for her parents after the U.S. Supreme Court refused again to hear their plea to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube.
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So, as usual, liberalism ends up getting the precise opposite of their intent.
God bless, Terri. Our prayers are with you and your family.
Wow! Those are rare (pro-life non-religious people)! Are you SURE you are agnostic?
(It somewhat sounds like me, I have some liberal tendencies, but not on this issue...)
May Michael Schiavo rot in Hell.
And soon!
texgal, you have said everything I wanted to say but could not. Thank you. I am so choked with tears and anger right now, I cannot think straight. God Bless Terri. I know she is with the angels now.
Prayers to her parents, and prayers also for Terri. May she rest in peace. She was killed by her husband who has betrayed her long ago with the support of many judges. May Terri always serve as a warning to others, that a written will may be better than a word called "yes" said in a church. We believe in eternal life, our Heavenly Father will take care of us. That´s the hope, the only hope we have. Farewell, Terri!!
I was thinking about this earlier. My wife has a first cousin who was born severely mentally and physically handicapped. He is now probably 37 years of age. He can't walk, can't talk. He is totally dependent on his mother and father (my wife's Aunt and Uncle) for everything. They mix his food and feed him through bottle using a tube into his mouth. He can't chew or drink normally.
They moved into a house they had built especially to care for him. Wide hallways, ramps everywhere for his wheelchair, track and hoist to get him into and out of the bathtub and move him from the bathroom to the bedroom. Their entire lives revolve around him. They love it. He loves it.
He is aware of his surroundings and is capable of viewing TV. He likes football and baseball and his mom and dad throw a birthday party for him most years, dressing him in Cardinals or Ram's attire. He doesn't understand the sports, but enjoys the colors and the sound of the crowds.
He smiles at everybody and makes sounds with his voice, sort of like song, but without lyric. Just the music, if you get my meaning.
He is a Blessing to everyone he contacts. His mom and dad love him so much, and he is very dear to all the family. He looks at you when you speak to him and responds with a big grin or a laugh in his way.
I have been in his presence many times. He lights up the room with a supernatural glow.
I tremble to think that anyone would think he is expendable; so much wasted flesh to be disposed of, a burden. I have a hard time with this. I can see a lot of terrifying parallels between his case and Ms. Schindler's.
Here we have a woman in Ms. Schindler that started out normal by most standards, exceptionally beautiful by some, who evolved into this state by some turn of events. She displays many of the traits exhibited by my wife's cousin. If what I've seen in the press is any indication, her parents certainly love her no less for her ailments.
What happened today shouldn't have happened the way it did. We are all the worse for it. May we never forget.
God, save us from ourselves.
My heart is very heavy. It was inevitable, especially after yesterday's inaction by those who still had the power and ability to save her.
My thoughts and prayers are for her family.
My anger will be postponed for another day.
Terri deserved much better than she got. We all did. May God rest her soul and may she rest in peace.
"To all attorneys and private investigators of good will: it's time now for some of you to follow the money."
Indeed.
I'm with John Hawkins on this one: It just doesn't feel right. Michael could have allowed her parents to take care of her, or the state, or any one of the thousands of people who tried to help. He could easily have been granted a divorce and moved on with his life.
Instead, he went to great lengths to see to it that his wife gruesomely starved to death. Hell, if he'd simply wanted her dead, ten minutes with a pillow a la Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" would have done the trick.
No. Something is NOT right here.
I smell money. Money, and Power, and Control, and, over it all, the terrible reek of blind stupid Fear.
SOMEBODY track this guy. PLEASE.
OMG. Rest in Peace, Terri. I'm sorry. We tried.
I would assume he is going to have a long and happy life....NOT
Amen to that. I thought I was ashamed of the U.S. when Elian Gonzales was kidnapped by the government. That was nothing compared to this. I also assumed it was because Clinton was in power. Seems like nothings changed under Bush, in this regard anyway. Just goes to show, never give up your guns. They may prove useful, when your local Mandarin comes after you or your family. I don't directly blame Pres. Bush or Gov. Bush, but between this and the lack of desire to control the borders, I'm really disgusted with our government right now. All 3 branches contributed to this murder, and the controlling majority are Republicans. Sickening.
Another good thing: the creeps over at DU are no longer calling Terri an "artichoke." They now refer to her as "Dear Terri," "Beloved Terri," "Go with God, Terri" and other infuriatingly treacly terms.
It's resembles the final scene in Shaw's "St. Joan," when all the people who conspired to kill her, laud her ghost. For shame!
My prayers for her family.
Uh, actually, I believe around 50 people were arrested trying to bring her water.
WWJD?
How very very sad for her family,and for America however Teri is now cradled in the arms of her Creator....prayers for her family and prayers that Americans wake up before America finds herself in a spirtual abyss that is impossible to climb out of......God Help us
Michael Schiavo, "free at last".
But Terri has won the greater freedom. Her life judgment is done. Michael still awaits his.
So ends the ugliest episodes in since the Waco Massacre. So sad. May Teri Rest in peace. May her parents be comforted. May God be glorified. God help our republic.
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