Vote the bums out who voted against Terri.
Posted on 03/14/2006 11:28:51 AM PST by KevinNuPac
Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify
Kevin Fobbs
March 13, 2006
Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life honoring Terri Schiavo with a day of remembrance challenges each and every one of us to stop for a moment and ask ourselves a question, do we respect ourselves, our families, our lives?
And if we are faced with the question of the possible certainty of death, does anyone truly know, or even have the faintest clue about, our wishes? That is the greatest good, the greatest legacy that Terri Schiavo's death and an annual "Terri's Day" can bring to our lives and to the celebration of the Culture of Life.
On March 18th, we as a nation will begin to grieve again, to reach into our hearts and feel with our collective national spirit what the Schindler family felt last year at this time as each moment since Terri was disconnected from the feeding lifeline, the moments crept by like hours and hours like days.
All of us have felt in some way that pain — even if it were only in the privacy of our loved one's home, hospital room, hospice or perhaps talking with an attorney and doctor attempting to make sense out of some fleeting comments made in a conversation perhaps voiced ten, twelve or even two decades earlier — not necessarily an expression of her true feeling about an end-of-life decision but merely an incidental musing in a long-forgotten side conversation.
For at least one million Americans, and quite possibly a whole lot more, this is an opportunity to voice an opinion through a pledge supporting a resolution in each state called "Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life." Each and every person who cares that your family, your spouse, your mother, your father, your sister or brother understands with clarity what you wish the end of life for you to be, with dignity and certainty should sign the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com and take the additional step to sign a Living Will — or as they call it at www.terrisfight.org, the Will to Live.
Some have asked why Americans should care about an annual Terri's Day. It is quite simple, we tend to keep turning the page on the Culture of Life because we feel it does not affect us. We tend to believe that seemingly universal belief that those who are handicapped, those who are not quite living a "perfect" life or by contemporary notion "ideal" then those lives are possibly disposable, marginal, not relevant, and part of the Culture of Death which embraces a "disposable society."
But life and our values for the Culture of Life are not disposable. Think about the young people today who would rather hurt themselves or even take their own lives rather than feel "imperfect" or the elderly person whose family is told by an insensitive health care professional while the stricken person struggles to cling to life, "she would be better off in another place," — just let her die, disconnect her from life, because her quality of life is not up to "contemporary standards. "
Why does celebrating the Culture of Life in Michigan become so essential for all of us in America? It is important for several reasons. Dr. Jack Kervorkian, also known as "Doctor Death" helped launch first in Michigan and then the nation the notion of the death culture. Secondly, and equally as important, at the May 12 event — just two days before Mother's Day — there will also be a "Mary's Moms" celebration of those women and mothers who have met challenges in standing up for some aspect of the Culture of Life.
This past weekend I sat at my cousin's funeral — or going home celebration, which more accurately describes it — thinking about the dearly departed and how she packed so much caring for others into her life even as she struggled with illness and advancing age. She was a wonderful woman who had lived through many, many challenges in her life, but in her 73 years she had met these challenges with dignity and had conveyed to her family when would be the right time to allow her to pass away.
Her daughter, who is a minister, spoke to the packed church about the times when, with all of her pain and then a stroke, the doctors had informed them that perhaps it was better to let her go. Yet that was three years ago that that occurred, and if the family had listened to the doctors and refused to see how she fought back and not only recovered but went back to volunteering at the church to feed and clothe the homeless. The medical professionals didn't care about an elderly lady who was on dialysis, but the family did and they knew better. Patricia lived three more years — years her extensive extended family considered "a gift from God."
So isn't part of the lesson of Terri's legacy and Terri's Day for families and loved ones to have a meaningful conversation with their family and to have the written document on hand as well that conveys the wishes clearly and concisely? You betcha.
As I sat in the church I thought of all of the families across the nation and the world who were sitting at their loved one's bedsides — or even standing outside of a hospital emergency room — overwhelmed with emotion, torn by what may be days of conflicting anguished decisions. I thought again of how out of death we may have the certainty of life. Terri's death reminded the nation that yes a state can and will starve you to death, and your family may be rendered helpless as you watch your loved one's precious life forces drain slowly away.
By signing the online pledge at www.kevinfobbs.com or going to www.terrisfight.org, you can learn about how to encourage your state legislature to establish March 31st as an official Terri's Day. Hold a Culture of Life Home Party or meet-and-greet to sign pledges, share ideas and support The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation as well as Culture of Life activities and events in your community or around the nation. Between now and March 31st you can make a dramatic difference for yourself, your family and for the nation. Stand up for the Culture of Life because one person, one life, one family can and does make a difference in America. Make the difference and be the difference today. America...The countdown for the Culture of Life has begun.
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Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the daily host of The Kevin Fobbs Show on News Talk WDTK - 1400 AM in Detroit. Listen to The Kevin Fobbs Show online at www.wdtkam.com daily 2-3 p.m., and call in toll-free nationwide to make your opinion count at 800-923-WDTK(9385) © Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060313
The body needs water. Without water, body organs turn into rocks. So, the autopsy viewed organs not in their actual pre-felony condition.
The media is flooded today. Painful news for the poor death lovers who keep wanting it all to go away. It is a tough day to remember but remember we must.
In Florida, living wills are not even required. Judge Greer has a little death factory and gift shop going at the Sixth Circuit Court Pinellas County.
Oh, and his awards case full of trophies for pulling off the crime of the century.
www.judgegeorgegreer.com (an incompetent judge with a lot of power can go really far in Florida).
That still leaves the complicit government at multiple levels culpable. Lord help us.
A profile of a serial killer shows he most always takes trophies. I wonder if any of the gaggle did, and what the trophies were. Certainly felos is dedicated to the joys of induced death.
Remember that Jodi's mom worked at the Sheriff's Dept. Maybe Jodis' mom introduced Michael to Jodi back in the day. Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants? Jodi's mom is deceased so she can't testify against anyone.
The Pinellas Cty Sheriff's program imo shut Mikey up by giving him a nice position with the dept.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/033006TerriTheTruth.html
There's even more at NCG.
Vote the bums out who voted against Terri.
The death lawyers admit to experiencing ecstasy watching another die and even though the picture becomes more gruesome, they say how beautiful the victim looks.
Remember the classic Vincent Price movies? His movie lines often called the grotesque beautiful.
sick, sick people with bar licenses who are criminally insane imo.
This really doesn't surprise me. Terri was terrorized.
Everyone be careful with your medicine.
I recently heard a doctor [on the radio] say that doctors and their families take the LEAST amount of medicine.
That sent me a message..of course they sure prescribe lots for their patients. My aunt had a nurse friend check her meds and two of them were duplicates by different companies.
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Study fails to show healing power of prayer
"In fact, the study found some of the patients who knew they were being prayed for did worse than others who were only told they might be prayed for..."
No kidding! I sure have learned my lesson with that! The less medicine you take the better for you!
Amazing connection to the Cruzan case!
Mary Schindler has come out with a couple of fantastic zingers today.
She refers to the "Cult of Euthanasia" and states that "PVS" is a made up
medical diagnosis - used to dehumanize the disabled, so they can be
killed.
GO MARY!!!!!!! You are right on!!
"" Has anybody seen the Schindlers on ANY of the tv MSM shows, or are they just interviewing Michael and/or Jodi? ""
I saw the Schindlers on a few shows, and heard of them being on others such as Nancy Grace and also Cathrine Crier. They were on Hannity's show this past week. Colmes was allowed to interview them too. Colmes was his typical self - disgusting and gross.
Thank you for the information from the Schindler's book concerning Richard Pearse. What an outrage that his report was thrown out of court. So typical of how Terri's case was handled.
I really get sick and tired of all the evil doers who do their dirty work in Tampa Bay.
** Anybody in touch with Bobby Schindler, ask him what Mikey was wearing when he got there. **
Good question, Columbo!! ;)
There's another scary bill wherein they propose to transfer seniors out of their homes during storms straight into nursing homes. Is this another move in disguise by the death lobby? If it is, this may be a novel way to rob seniors of their property which is step one in Florida.
Rob the ward, make them indigent and a ward of the state under Medicaid and then dispose of them. After they die, their beneficiaries ask for their inheritance. There is none because it was stolen by the judicial/guardianship system.
Florida State Auditor Melton wrote in depth about this on the internet.
Mary Schindler's a force to be reckoned with. She needs a wonderwoman cape because she's going to save a lot of lives.
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