Posted on 12/03/2006 3:03:26 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Theresa Marie Schindler was born to Robert and Mary Schindler on December 3, 1963. She was the first of three children the Schindlers would have.
Terri was a shy, but comical, child who had an affinity for music, animals and the arts. She kept a small circle of friends and was dear to schoolmates, neighboring families and her own extended family.
Following high school, Terri came into her own. She developed a knack for sketching and doodling. She enjoyed outings with her friends. She was an adoptive mother to the family’s dog, Bucky.
Terri attended Catholic School while growing up and remained close to her faith throughout her life.
In 1983, Terri met Michael Schiavo at Bucks County Community College and the two began dating. He was the first romantic interest Terri had.
The couple was engaged within a few months and married a year later at Terri’s church in Southampton, Pa. She was 21.
In 1986, Terri and Michael relocated to Pinellas County, Florida and her parents followed three months later.
In 1990, at the age of 26, Terri suffered a mysterious cardio-respiratory arrest for which no cause has ever been determined. She was diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy – neurological injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. Terri was placed on a ventilator, but was soon able to breathe on her own and maintain vital function. She remained in a severely compromised neurological state and was provided a PEG tube to ensure the safe delivery of nourishment and hydration.
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of marked dehydration following more than 13 days without nutrition or hydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of the Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
GREAT catch!!!!!
I caught Bubba Clinton telling a truth once and was so astonished I wrote up the item and sent it to a conservative magazine.
After starting with >13,000 possibilities, the 2nd annual Best Of Today's Toons is over & all the votes have been tallied. Neither hanging nor pregnant chads were encountered & Diebold equipment was not used. First, a few stats. 29 of the finalists received 1st-place votes.
Thanks for a great thread, Pookie!!
Here is the thread:
8mm
Blinded by their own rage, they scarcely realize they are lifting the conservative masks on their true selves and exposing that liberal inner self. Makes for a great training thread! I am honored to be in the excellent company of such zingermeisters as our own!
Terri Schiavo Judge George Greer to Speak at Jury Trial Conference
8mm
"70% of men who batter their partners either sexually or physically abuse their children."
The chances for Jodi are grim indeed. By comparison, Nicole Simpson had it better, a more merciful end by a less calculating perp.
Jodi would be safer climbing a cliff wearing roller skates.
Does your new tag line relate to Rosie O'Donut?
Just the O'hole.
Vivid expression! :-) :-)
God knows, I wish her no ill, but Jodi made her own bed. She was an accomplice in killing Terri in order to have Michael for herself. However, the two children are absolutely innocent of all this; and now -- at least statistically -- they are seriously at risk. They have a seven in ten chance of being abused by a sociopath. May God protect them.
This item, also from #233, puts light on Jodi's hardening dilemma:
>> o "Women are most likely to be killed when attempting to leave the abuser. In fact, they're at a 75% higher risk than those who stay." [Terri told her brother several months before her injuries that she was deeply unhappy and wanted to leave Michael and get a divorce.] <<
cc: Jodi Centonze Schiavo
Further to the above, it was Nancy Cruzan's parents who sued (and sued and sued) to kill her, ultimately successfully. Her father committed suicide a few years later. Are we surprised?
Sheriff Doug Seneker guarded Cruzan's room at the Missouri Rehabilitation Center. Lawrence County Sheriff Doug Seneker was a deputy sheriff at the time. He questions whether Nancy Cruzan was in a persistent vegetative state. His opinion is based, in part, on her reactions three days before her death when he went into her room to check on her.
"She turned and looked at me and stared at me with a panicky look, sweating profusely, and the thought I had was, she was thinking, ‘Oh, here’s a policeman, he’ll help me.’ But we weren’t allowed to do that,” said Seneker.
In fact, Seneker and other officers were required to prevent others from helping her.
Incredible.
Surely some of the cops at Pinellas Park were uncomfortable with Terri's execution, and with their legal duty neither to intervene themselves, nor to allow anyone else to interfere. That must have been tough on decent people. They take pride in doing their duty, but when duty makes them act unjustly, they are torn apart.
Some of the police would have been good recruits for the SS. They seemed to take a special joy in harassing the vigil.
After all we have heard, I no longer believe that "PVS" is either specific enough or well enough understood to be a scientific diagnosis. Neither do I believe it warrants killing the patient. I never have believed that doctors (or trolls) can understand what's going on in one's mind by peering at the brain from the outside -- regardless of how sophisticated the tools of observation have become.
It is interesting that neither Karen Ann Quinlan nor Nancy Cruzan was "brain dead." Both cases played out in the press as "turning off life support" for putatively "dead" patients, but in truth, neither was on life support and neither was dying. Karen lived nine more years, Nancy was put to death.
No, you weren't harsh. And you were right. You have freepmail.
That's a long time for a patient to live without life support, when they supposedly need life support. Yet, we're supposed to believe that Karen Quinlan and Terri Schiavo were both removed from life support, and Terri must have been worse off, because she only survived 13 days without it, while Karen survived 9 years without it.
The visitors who talk about emotionalism are really talking about the Quinlan case at the time when her removal from life support was debated (1975-76). Emotions ran high. But that was 30 years ago. It's a crock to call that an issue today. By and large, there has been no public issue and no emotionalism since Quinlan about ending ARTIFICIAL life support. Everybody accepts it. (Karen Ann's death in 1985, from pneumonia, was hardly even noticed.)
An honest account of Terri's case must answer why her case caused an international sensation. It certainly wasn't due to issues settled in Quinlan and Cruzan.
There's probably a book in that one question! Whatever caused denizens of the hard left -- Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, Nat Hentoff, Alan Dershowitz, Gloria Allred -- to make common cause with Rick Santorum, Bill Frist, Tom Delay, George W. Bush and Pope John Paul II?
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