Posted on 02/01/2006 7:29:10 AM PST by Ohioan from Florida
In the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. For those who have not heard the tragic story, Haleigh was beaten nearly to death last September, allegedly by her adoptive mother and stepfather. The beating left her unconscious and barely clinging to life.
Within a week or so of the beating, her doctors had written her off. They apparently told Haleigh's court-appointed guardian, Harry Spence, that she was "virtually brain dead." Even though he had never visited her, Spence quickly went to court seeking permission to remove her respirator and feeding tube. The court agreed, a decision affirmed recently by the supreme court of Massachusetts.
And so, no doubt with the best of intentions, a little girl who had already suffered so much was stripped by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of even the chance to fight to stay alive. If she didn't stop breathing when the respirator was removed, which doctors expected, she would slowly dehydrate to death.
Close Call
Then came the unexpected:
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Yeah, I was ruminating on that the other day and wondered if Michael hadn't made a half-million-dollar mistake. He could have bumped off Terri with a swallow of Jell-o down the wrong tube. So much safer than fiddling with insulin, too! Then he doesn't have to hire the Felos Ghoul Firm.
Oh, I remember. I started to say that if there's no conflict-of-interest problem, I'd trust the duty nurse with her hands-on experience ten times out of ten over later critics.
Maybe, but he didn't know they fed her jello. He would be the suspect in his mind...
What I meant was, his order not to feed her was the mistake. The nurse who accidentally lets Terri aspirate a baked potato (or whatever :-) ) would be the one to kill her and get a good scolding.
That reminds me, we forgot to mention Carla Iyers today. She stood up and took heat. Only one reason for her to do so.
When I made the comment about no specialists on dehydration, I guess I was being sarcastic. However, now that I'm thinking about it. There should many autopsy reports on dehydration.
Several years ago a murderer escaped from prison in my desert state. He managed to evade capture for several days. Eventually he was found dead. I remember well, the media reports of his death. They went on and on describing how painful and horrible his death was, as a result of NO water. Many times people will get lost in the desert and the cause of death, I'm assuming, is usually dehydration.
Therefore, you'd think there would be experts on the effects of dehydration to the human body and plenty of autopsies in this country to back them up. Like you mentioned, the sick and evil Nazi doctors probably did experiments on the effects of it too. Getting scientific data from those barbaric killers, would be ironic, for sure.
The implication of the autopsy was Terri was blind before she was dehydrated, which from what you reported, was most likely not the case. To imply something by omission, is very similar to outright lying. I seem to recall Michael supporters here on FR, using the blind report of the autopsy as validation for killing Terri.
I listened to Carla Iyers tell her story verbally (Sean Hannity show? I forget) and was extremely impressed. She knew exactly what she was talking about, she didn't budge an inch for the critics, and her professionalism was obvious.
Yes, but he still did not know they would of fed her. Am I thinking right?
Know-nothing idiots. George Felos and Michael Schiavo could straighten them out in a hurry! Why, that man went through a blissful death experience. George could hear his soul cry out for release. He looked SO peaceful -- like mummified shoe leather.
The passion of truth does not show up in an autopsy room. You are correct.
If there is, the M.E.s didn't reference any of them in Terri's case. In fact, it sounds to me like they avoided the issue as much as they could, except for the obvious.
Sure. But he could have manipulated it, couldn't he? He plays Mr. Nice Guy and encourages the nursing staffs to pamper Terri and indulge her wishes for food and drink, within reason. He is generous, he is full of smiles. Soon, if the ME is right, Terri would have had her glorious death experience, courtesy of a misdirected chocolate chip or something.
Of course, the ME might have overstated the risk. That was my decidedly sarcastic point in the first place.
Not now, but once upon a time, M.E.s helped find and convict criminals
:-)
I think you seen to many Alfred Hitchcock episodes. : ) He was not just not brilliant nor would he give up that much control. Right?
I wish the same as you wish.
If he'd kept the choke hold on another minute or two in 1990, he wouldn't have had these problems :-)
Yeah. {Sigh}
Pay no attention, I'm watching too much Hitchcock again.
""Know-nothing idiots. George Felos and Michael Schiavo could straighten them out in a hurry! Why, that man went through a blissful death experience. George could hear his soul cry out for release. He looked SO peaceful -- like mummified shoe leather.""
Exactly!!! I think even the media, were sickened by Felos and his blissful death description. But not sickened enough to confort the ghoul, though.
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