Campaign season is going to be a nightmare for the faux-lifers who voted against Terri's life.
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
This is the same hospice where Terri Schiavo was put to death by starvation and dehydration. It could be argued that they support terminal sedation. It could be argued that they support hastening death. It could also be argued that they support euthanasia.
This is the very same hospice that Michael Schiavo’s attorney, George Felos, once served as chairman of the board of directors.
Hospice of The Florida Suncoast Abets Euthanasia Cause
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Terri Schiavo's Brother Speaks At Franciscan University
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The Schindlers fight back: Terri Schiavo's family turns tragedy into triumph
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That sounds like a malicious filing to me. Eisenberg has no apparent standing for legal intervention against the Schindlers. He's just a bully with a law degree.
That is what it looks like to me, but I wouldn't want to underestimate the malice he carries, and perhaps big bucks funding from some limousine liberals, Soros types.
Heavens, no! Malice is his first name and he does damage merely by filing the complaint (and knows it). The Schindlers are required to defend themselves and haven't the resources for it. When/if friendly groups come to their aid, you can bet Eisenberg will trumpet that fact from the hilltops.
Eisenberg is abusing the law to impose bigotry and hatred. I know no more loathesome act, and it is all the worse in a country founded on decency and religious tolerance.
Look who he left out! He omits all of these left-wing voices who spoke out for Terri, some of them with eloquence and passion: Jesse Jackson, Sen. Tom Harken (an otherwise bitter liberal), Nat Hentoff, the dean of leftist civil libertarians, Ralph Nader, presidential candidate of the hard left, and leftist lawyers David Boies, Alan Dershowitz and Gloria Allred. Plus, just about every disability rights group in the country (few if any of them "conservative").
The way I looked at it, a cause that could bring together the Pope, the president of the United States, Tom Delay and Jesse Jackson, Dick Cheney and Nat Hentoff, protestors of both the left and the right, and the Congress of the United States, was astonishing. That such a coalition could LOSE was even more astonishing.
We could use a few eighteen foot soldiers.
"Michael Schiavo's mom was AGAINST him killing Terri. His mom had an illness after she complained to him that it was WRONG and then she was starved and dehydrated too. Maybe MS should just get a job at hospice because his barbaric acts are the only thing he's good at.
www.judgegeorgegreer.com (updated)"
Wow. I hope it wasn't revenge, although he did have his father dehydrated and starved to death, as well. Maybe he just likes to kill. He even killed Terri's cats, even though relatives offered to take the cats in.
About Michael's parents, for those who might not know, on national tv, Larry King's how:
http://www.sweetliberty.org/bulletins/terri/lkl1.htm
CALLER: Yes. Does it bother you that the death is so slow? Maybe Dr. Kevorkian-style would be a faster, more peaceful way?
SCHIAVO: Removing somebody's feeding is very painless. It is a very easy way to die. Probably the second better way to die, being the first being an aneurysm.
And it doesn't bother me at all. I've seen it happen.
==> I had to do it with my own parents.
Read this for a better understanding as to how deeply the mindset is within this country.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/032906AssistedSuicide.html
I think Jeb wanted to stop it,
FYI........I was not the one who posted the above.
** Terri's Law was in effect at the time and she was essentially under his control until everyone got scared. **
It's a crying shame that Terri's Law was over-turned. Terri's Law should have rescued Terri from michael's control for good, but for some reason it did not.
Jeb should never have allowed Terri to be returned to that hospice after her feeding tube was put back in, in 2003. She was not terminal, so why was she returned to the hospice? Hopefully I'm not mixed up on the chain of events.
To go back before Terri's law, Terri was grandfathered into the state statute changes involving PVS, life prolonging medical treatment, and terminal illness re: PVS.
That was a travesty.
Yeah, globalists. It isn't about Democrats and Republicans or liberals and conservatives. Globalists are who we should watch. Everything they do is to chip away at sovereignty of the country, with such things as CAFTA and FTAA.
And George Soros and his right to die projects.
Florida is going to put directives on Drivers Licenses. By doing so, it will take longer to get your DL here and they will have to hire more people so now the DEATH CULT is reaching right into Floridians' wallets.
No longer an organ donor. Refuse advance directives. Refuse a living will. My medical DPOA's, 3 of them, must agree in total.
It came out in January, 2004, while there was still hope for saving Terri, and certainly while there was great hope to improve her life.
This audio clip is long, one hour and twenty minutes of discussion from a medical perspective of what happened to Terri. It puts to rest and to lie any mantras of the death lovers we hear so often. Once heard we appreciate why the death cultists try at every opportunity to quash the info and besmirch the reputation of the doctor providing the discussion.
Thanks, bjs.
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Agree! If you look for the one faith underlying all of the multitudinous cults of the left, it's World Federalism. The great ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT is their enduring god, and they all fall down to kiss its toes.
In 1 Samuel 8, -- if you'll forgive me a slight paraphrase -- the Lord told the Israelites, if you won't have Me to rule over you, you'll have the IRS, baby, big-time.
In Corinthians, it says, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
I figure these two biblical insights are all anyone needs to know about political science. If you won't have the Lord and liberty, you'll be punished by having a government and taxes and regulations and corruption and waste and bureaucracy and wall-to-wall laws and millions of lawyers and politicians and trough termites, plus the New York Times. The government will oppress you. They all do, y'know. And when the government is the whole world, nobody escapes.
The bigger the state, the worse the oppression. The World Federalists want the whole world to be joined into one great State. If they ever get there, it will turn out to be the great Satan.
The type of HYPOKALEMIA that Theresa Maria Schiavo was diagnosed with is unique (serum Potassium returns within limits within ~24 hrs, despite Potassium supplementation). It is caused by inflicting TRAUMA (such as wife-beating and violent shaking of the victim, resulting in a stiff neck, plus neurological and skeletal trauma, and closed head injury) within the previous hours. These findings were published by the U.S. Government's National Institute of Health in 2002. ((linked here))
My question is, I don't find this explanation at this link. I get the stuff I tried to put into English at #1729. The item makes a strong case that admission hypokalemia is not only related to trauma but more frequent when injuries are more severe. (Where was Dr. Thogmartin on this info?)
So far as I can see, however, it does not make a case that this kind of -- let's call it 24-hour hypokalemia, is a unique indicator of trauma.
Advice? Corrected link?
Campaign season is going to be a nightmare for the faux-lifers who voted against Terri's life.
Another Floridian was tasered to death by LE. It's in today's Tampa Tribune. The guy was already handcuffed. The taser deaths by LE are not gaining on the starvation/dehydrations yet but are escalating.
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