I'm ready for cane season. I never put my things back from last year so it was easy... I can't wait to see my knick knacky stuff in November when hurricane season is over.
Posted on 06/05/2005 11:45:26 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
"Too Late To Die Young: Nearly True Tales From a Life," by Harriet McBryde Johnson.
About two years ago, Harriet Johnson appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. If you saw her portrait, you probably haven't forgotten it.
A thin woman in a wheelchair leans forward, a purple shawl draping one shoulder. Johnson describes it this way in her new memoir: "The portrait has been described as beautifully disturbing, and most nondisabled people seem to see it that way. I'd prefer to call it disturbingly beautiful, but I'll take it the other way around if I must."
Johnson has an unnamed muscle-wasting disease, but don't dare say she "suffers" from it. She insists on being her own complicated person, a Southern lady, for instance, as well as a socialist, an atheist, a lawyer and a born storyteller with a wicked sense of humor.
She eschews pity and sentimentality. She supports the work of Not Dead Yet, a group of anti-euthanasia activists who demonstrated outside Terri Schiavo's Pinellas Park hospice earlier this year, dramatically sliding out of their wheelchairs and lying on the ground.
And though Johnson hates the hackneyed trope of triumph in the face of disability, she nevertheless has a string of interesting adventures. She runs for elected office. She travels to Cuba to discuss disability rights. She protests the Jerry Lewis telethon annually in her hometown of Charleston, S.C., and she bribes her friends to join her with promises of free food.
Her gripe with the telethon is its grim prognostications. When she was 30, her mother became ill, and Johnson had to accept for the first time that, contrary to all expectations, she might indeed outlive her parents. "While anyone may die young, it's not something you can count on," she writes. "You have to be prepared to survive." It's that angry, proud but utterly normal brand of survival that is at the heart of Johnson's memoir.
The most fascinating chapter is her encounter with the philosopher and animal rights activist Peter Singer. (It was this encounter that rated The New York Times Magazine cover.) Singer believes that in some cases it is morally acceptable for parents to kill severely disabled infants. Johnson disagrees, so much so that she fears even debating him would dignify his ideas as socially acceptable. Nevertheless, she meets him, travels to Princeton University to debate him and ends up with a great story about it.
The best memoirs don't necessarily tell every event in a person's life, but they do capture the voice and the emotional feel of the author. Yes, it's impossible for a nondisabled person to fully know what Johnson's life is like. But her writing is so vibrant, so interesting and so funny that you can't help but feel as if you're in her world, sitting beside her and hearing her story for yourself.
Autopsy results in the morning
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422641/posts
If they are brave enough to state the truth, it will say she died of murder, anything else isn't acceptable.
If you go to www.TheEmpireJournal.com
And read the news article, there is a link where you can request a copy of the Autopsy Report.
I clicked on the link and made my request.
They will send it out via e-mail.
A I correct that Michael still has not had a memorial service for terri nor done anything with her ashes?
I actually thought the most moving words were by the Revrend Jessy Jackson. I can still hear hi say, "This is immoral." You know the way he talks with that southern accent how he says the word immoral kind of mushy with no hard accent.
I actually wished the Schindlers had called on Jessy Jackson and not Randal Terry to be their spokesperson. Jessy Jackson was a very eloquent speaker and IMHO could have brought people together on behalf of Terri. I though Randall Terry polarized the public and the Main Stream Media lashed out and lumped everyone who supported Terrias one of those darn, "Fundamentalist Christians again." Thus they could be ignored, disposed of just like poor Terri.
I am NOT a huge jessy Jackson fan, I especially find it ironic that he was counseling Bill & Hillary with theri marriage problems, considering Jessy didn't appear to be such a star player in the monogomous marriage game. With that said, I still think the most moving moments were by Jessy Jackson. IMHO
Thanks, I'll do that. Haven't heard anything about mikey since Terri's death. I suspect he's in hiding. He will never do anything willingly to make Terri's parents lives any easier. I wish to be as forgiving as they are.
I've found many things offensive about Rev. Jackson, but in this case he did the right thing and I give him credit for that.
That about sums up my opinion as well.
Jesse is to quick to pull the race card. Talk about seeing life in black and white, that is all Jesse Jackson ever sees.
I have not heard that they have forgiven him. They may not be speaking his name but I don't recall that they have forgiven him. I think in order for them to grant forgivness he would have to repent first, wouldn't he?
I know you know this but TEJ notice re: autopsy results tomorrow. Of course it will be a whitewash.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/614055_schiavo_autopsy_results_t.htm
SCHIAVO AUTOPSY RESULTS TO BE RELEASED WEDNESDAY
The Hires family owns Sonny's Pit Bar-B-Q.
Jesse Jackson changed his mind about Terri after meeting with Jeb Bush. I liked Jesse Jackson for about half a day until I realized that he changed his mind. Then he came back from Tallahassee for one last media blitz knowing that he changed his mind. I'm sure he didn't tell the family that Jeb changed Jackson's mind but that's what happened.
I'm ready for cane season. I never put my things back from last year so it was easy... I can't wait to see my knick knacky stuff in November when hurricane season is over.
by Steven Ertelt,LifeNews.com Editor
June 14, 2005 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Autopsy results of Terri Schiavo's 13-day starvation death will be made public on Wednesday. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, hope they will be able to shed some light on the cause of her collapse in 1990.
While Terri's estranged husband Michael and the media claim she collapsed because of a potassium imbalance, Terri's family is concerned that Michael may have physically abused her. A bone scan conducted on Terri a year after her collapse shows signs of possible physical abuse.
The autopsy results come more than two months after her death and Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin will present them at a Wednesday morning news conference. Attorneys for Michel and the Schindlers expect to get the report hours before it is made public.
Terri's brother Bobby, in Minneapolis for the National Right to Life convention, said Terri's family is anxious to see whether the results provide any further indication as to what happened to Terri in 1990.
"Our family would really like to know what caused Terri's collapse," Schindler said. "I don't know what they can and can't find 15 years after the fact. If we could get some of our questions answered as to how Terri ended up the way she did, that would be helpful."
While the autopsy will not likely be able to show whether Terri was PVS or minimally conscious and able to interact, it would show whether or not Terri had broken bones that eventually healed.
George Felos, the assisted suicide advocate who is Michael's lead attorney, said he expects the Schindlers to continue to engage in a so-called "smear campaign" against Michael, once the results are released.
"I think everyone who has followed the facts in this case knows there is no substance to those (abuse) charges, and I'm confident we're not going to hear anything differently from the medical examiner," Felos told the Associated Press.
Bill Pellan, chief investigator for the medical examiner's office, told AP that Thogmartin reviewed police reports, medical records, and other documents to try to determine the cause of Terri's collapse. He also confirmed that the issue of whether Terri was in a persistent vegetative state "will be addressed."
The Schindlers hoped to have an independent expert observe the autopsy. They wanted to bring in Dr. Cyril Wecht, the well-known forensic pathologist and coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Wecht told the Schindlers he would observe an autopsy, but Thogmartin's office refused their request.
The remains of Terri's body were cremate days after her death and following Thogmartin's obtaining the necessary pictures and other information he needed for the autopsy.
Related web sites: Terri Schiavo's parents - http://www.terrisfight.org
FV SAYS: Look at Felos saying that the family who is still grieving for the murder of their loved one by judicial homicide is smearing HINO. Apples and oranges. Truth v. Lies.
"The Schindlers hoped to have an independent expert observe the autopsy. They wanted to bring in Dr. Cyril Wecht, the well-known forensic pathologist and coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Wecht told the Schindlers he would observe an autopsy, but Thogmartin's office refused their request."
I hope I'm wrong, but it doesn't look good for the truth getting out.
HERE IS THE EMPIRE JOURNAL'S TERRI ARCHIVES...http://www.theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm
The attorney for the St. Pete Diocese Joe DiVito died recently. He was only 63. He was up to his eyeballs in contributions to Greer and representing rogue Bishop Lynch. His obit was in the Tampa Tribune today.
well, here's hoping this season is much less active. I'd prefer never again to hear trees making such noises as they did -- and we were on the periphery! Is your garden ok? I'm calling mine "The Watched Plot", for it has been exceedingly slow to bloom. Of course, I'm a bloomaholic.
Maybe they haven't forgiven him, I guess I was referring to their demeanor. They seem so above all that has happened I cannot help but admire them. I believe as well that you must repent to be forgiven. That is one thing for sure, he hasn't repented.
Tomorrow's autopsy press conference. It's over on Ulmerton Rd, remember Ulmerton?
Major earthquake in Eureka, Ca. Says no injuries.
yes -- are you attending?
Yikes! Didn't feel anything in Fresno.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.