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I Will Never Forget the Look of Horror on My Sister Terri Schiavo’s Face the Day She Died
http://www.lifenews.com ^ | March 30, 2015 | Bobby Schindler

Posted on 03/30/2015 7:32:01 PM PDT by NKP_Vet

On March 18, 2005, my sister, Terri Schiavo, began her thirteen day agonizing death after the feeding tube – supplying her food and water – was removed. Terri was cognitively disabled and had difficulty swallowing and therefore needed a feeding tube. Terri was not on any “life support”, nor was she sick or dying. Nonetheless, she received her death sentence ordered by Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of Pinellas County Florida.

Greer’s order to remove Terri’s feeding tube was in response to her estranged husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo, requesting permission from the court to kill his disabled wife. This was after Schiavo began cohabitating with his fiancée and stood to inherit Terri’s medical trust fund, which at the time was close to $800,000.

However, more disturbing was that the judge ruled to kill Terri, despite her mother and father pleading with Schiavo, and the court, to allow them to take her home. In fact, a guardian ad litem urged Judge Greer to refuse the dehydration request. Instead, this legally-required protector of Terri was dismissed from the original case by Greer and no replacement was ever appointed.

March 31st marks a very sad day; and this year, it will be the ten year anniversary of Terri’s death. Rush Limbaugh described it this way, “the day our country hit rock bottom”.

Terri’s case divided the nation and it will be discussed in high schools and college medical ethics classrooms for years to come. It is the anniversary of the death of a young woman who simply had a disability and needed basic and ordinary care to live, and a family who wanted to love and care for her just as she was.

With it being the 10 year anniversary, calls from the media have increased. Most of the articles are excoriating Governor Jeb Bush for his defense of Terri when he was the Governor of Florida back in 2005. But I have noticed one question has been asked more than others – “What, if anything, has changed since Terri’s death?”

Yes, things have changed – they’ve gotten worse. Exactly how many persons are being killed like Terri every year is difficult to know, although I think the numbers would shock us. What we do know is that we have a very active and aggressive right to die movement.

There are many dynamics involved to successfully convince our general public that it’s “okay” to dehydrate and starve a human being to death. If I had to point to one of the major accomplishments, it is how the right to die forces have been able to reclassify feeding tubes as “medical treatment”. However, just as effective is how they’ve influenced the masses to buy into the notion that some persons are in fact, not persons. Consequently, these human “non-persons” have no “value” and can be killed.

This should be frightening to read. But it is true. Even more frightening is how this ideology has impacted and been accepted in our culture, in particular, our health care community.

This, along with changes in public policies, now puts life and death decisions in the hands of physicians, hospitals boards and ethics committees – basically strangers – in the place of family members.

After Terri died, my family’s experience, contesting this powerful right to die movement, led us to establish the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, which seeks to raise public awareness of the looming culture of death, and to educate the public about care potentialities. Most importantly, however, is to help families in situations similar to what we experienced – loved ones in danger of being killed, like Terri.

Indeed, the calls from families for help have increased, and increased significantly, as the years have passed.

Why is this? How has the right to die agenda been able to efficaciously shift our attitudes to the point that is has become everyday practice to starve and dehydrate a person to death. The issue may see complex, however it seems to me that the answer is very clear. It is because they lie.

I saw it in my sister’s case and I see it in the stories from the families who call us. And one of the most pathetic lies out there is that killing someone by denying them food and water is a “peaceful” and “painless” experience, and the patently absurd notion that it is a “death with dignity”.

It’s important to differentiate that Terri’s condition, and countless others like her, is quite different from a situation where it may be medically appropriate to withhold food and fluids because a person is actively dying and their bodies are shutting down, no longer able to assimilate their food and hydration.

terrischiavo10Nonetheless, the never-ending propaganda about the peaceable nature of forced dehydration compelled me to make public this image of my sister created from my memory. This (right) is what Terri looked like just before she died. It was horrible to see.

And yet, Schiavo’s attorney falsely told the public during a press conference, just days before Terri’s death, that she looked “beautiful”. This is what they want you to believe, not the harsh truth about the madness of what we permit in the rooms of hospitals, nursing homes and hospices every single day across this country.

These are the hard facts my family and I will have to live with for the rest of my life: After almost two weeks without food or water, my sister’s lips were horribly cracked, to the point where they were blistering. Her skin became jaundice with areas that turned different shades of blue. Her skin became markedly dehydrated from the lack of water. Terri’s breathing became rapid and uncontrollable, as if she was outside sprinting. Her moaning, at times, was raucous, which indicated to us the insufferable pain she was experiencing. Terri’s face became skeletal, with blood pooling in her deeply sunken eyes and her teeth protruding forward. Even as I write this, I can never properly describe the nightmare of having to watch my sister have to die this way.

What will be forever seared in my memory is the look of utter horror on my sister’s face when my family visited her just after she died.

Those pushing this agenda will certainly deny this, they have to. But there was a reason the court ordered that no cameras or video be permitted in Terri’s room while she was being killed. They claimed privacy issues. My family knows otherwise. And they do too.

So when will this heartlessness end? When will the lies end? When will the American people decide this insanity has to stop?

I don’t know. But I do know this – the lies will never end.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; moralabsolutes; prolife; schiavo; terrischiavo; whiterose
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To: NKP_Vet

“Where there is life there is hope.” - Terri Schiavo


41 posted on 03/30/2015 10:09:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: demshateGod

And .. what they could never prove .. was that her condition came about because her husband TRIED TO CHOKE HER TO DEATH .. AND HE DIDN’T FINISH THE JOB.

Consequently, the husband had to get rid of her for fear she would be able to tell that her husband tried to kill her because he wanted to end the marriage.


42 posted on 03/30/2015 10:39:12 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: sport
Starve my daughter , and there will be hell to pay. GOD shall teach them a lesson. When these evil men are judged by our maker, they will feel the pain and suffering they caused this poor woman. I could not eat solid food for about two years without vomiting because I had Barretts. Anyone who tells me that dying of hunger is euphoric is going to the morgue or a hospital. Every part of my body hurt from my involuntary bulimia. They tortured this woman .
43 posted on 03/30/2015 11:39:19 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: NKP_Vet

Dogs get treated better than Terri.


44 posted on 03/31/2015 2:07:16 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: NKP_Vet
Has anybody ever found the place she is buried?

I know that Michael was refusing to tell her family?

45 posted on 03/31/2015 3:12:08 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: eCSMaster

Here’s the Find A Grave page for Terri’s grave marker. Michael used her marker to twist the knife.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10708617


46 posted on 03/31/2015 4:54:39 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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To: exit82

I was ready to throw down then.

Teri was Soros’ test case.

I have personally seen this method of death in action now. It is murder.

From the original event that was never investigated, it is clear that Schiavo intended to kill Teri and proceeded to do so by whatever means necessary, including putting the metal things in her head. Every action was supposed to kill her outright and to insult every parent of a disabled person everywhere.

To prevent her family from seeing her was the evil that Schiavo is. To remove her remains to Pennsylvania and private ground should have been stopped, too. It’s not like he loved her.

So yes. He kept his promise to himself to murder her. With the blessing of the law: not to be Greered, Schiavo’d to death was part of my original tagline.


47 posted on 03/31/2015 5:11:27 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: combat_boots

Thanks for your reply.

The day of “throwing down” appears to be getting ever nearer.


48 posted on 03/31/2015 5:29:25 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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49 posted on 03/31/2015 5:34:41 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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50 posted on 03/31/2015 5:37:01 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Nobody could be closer than a foot or two feet from Terri. The rent a cop was right there. Nobody who truly loved her could even comfort her! The police state was born as Terri lay being dehydrated and starved to death in the bed she did not need (except for a prop). God save us all. Never forget.


51 posted on 03/31/2015 6:08:48 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: NKP_Vet

Jeb Bush and his brother George W. were complicit in Terri’s murder. Bush 43 was running a shell game; outwardly seeming to support but under the radar, sanctioning her murder and cancelling her Coast Guard helicopter out of her living hell. US Coast Guard Captain Mark Reynolds was going to get Terri and take her to an undisclosed location. Bush 43 cancelled her rescue. (the coordinator of her rescue shared this w/me six months after Terri’s murder. We were all too sick to talk about what we witnessed until months later.)


52 posted on 03/31/2015 6:12:03 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: latina4dubya

Jeb killed her. You need some guidance if you hold on to the belief that Jeb tried. There was a GOP House, GOP Senate, GOP President, GOP Governor. GOP State Legislature and Governor. OH, PLEASE. The RINOS killed her and Jeb was playing games in the media saying he was “on his way” to get people to stop driving to the vigil. Then, he’d have another lie in the media the next day. JEB murdered Terri for the RINOS. All the big moneybag RINOS live in Pinellas County. So do the big Scientologists. The Scientologists made a pact with the RINOS to kill Terri. You need to know about Pinellas County to know why this happened and how beloved the Semblers (hubby’s pals) are to all the Bush Dynasty. Semblers donations to the GOP led to Terri’s death courtesy of their donations to JEB BUSH.


53 posted on 03/31/2015 6:16:57 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: eCSMaster

Terri is not at Sylvan Abbey where the bronze marker is. It is believed that Mikey ditched her ashes.


54 posted on 03/31/2015 6:18:31 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: BykrBayb
Terri's bronze marker was in line with the pond fountain right by the pond. He put the marker right by the water. There was also a fountain in front of hostage woodshed. Freeper kids were arrested for trying to take spring water to Terri. It was that they were on the sidewalk which was against the law that was like martial law there at the house of death for many; hospice woodside. We were under DHS new procedures in 2005. The show of force convinced us that the country had changed forever with each day that Terri's torture would end in her death. It's easy to murder an innocent woman who had her therapy withdrawn which included that she could actually eat without a feeding tube but the therapy was DISCONTINUED.

Terri's life insurance policy was underwritten by insurance company who had a vested interest in Terri's death. They knew Michael. Michael could only collect on the life insurance when she was murdered by the judges and RINOS. Nothing shady about writing a life insurance policy on somebody you plan to kill? (those situations are usually prosecuted as murder.)

55 posted on 03/31/2015 6:24:56 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: wagglebee

I sent a reminder to the Drudge Report re: Jeb, the Sembler dynasty and that we will campaign against Jeb Bush for being a RINO and for abandoning Terri and her blood relatives.


56 posted on 03/31/2015 6:30:30 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: NKP_Vet

FYI: Brother Paul O’ Donnell passed away a few weeks ago from a heart attack. He was at all the vigils, a kind man who wore traditional garb and sandals.


57 posted on 03/31/2015 6:31:44 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: floriduh voter
FYI: Brother Paul O’ Donnell passed away a few weeks ago from a heart attack. He was at all the vigils, a kind man who wore traditional garb and sandals.

Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

58 posted on 03/31/2015 6:34:55 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: NKP_Vet

If Jeb was any kind of a man; he would have marched right to Terri’s bedside with a glass of water.


59 posted on 03/31/2015 6:48:11 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: NKP_Vet; Jim Robinson; All

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60 posted on 03/31/2015 6:51:58 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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