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Terri Schiavo’s situation has people lined up in opposing factions. They’re separated by contradictory medical opinions, disputed facts, divergent opinions on what constitutes death with dignity and a range of views on the legitimacy of government’s interest in her continued existence. Perhaps the only point of agreement is that Terri’s plight is especially heartrending. Terri’s husband, who remains her legal guardian, claims that removing her feeding tube will be a painless and probably most natural way to die. But who knows that with certainty? Ten years ago, a woman was paralyzed by a stroke and unable to communicate. She found...

it is worth remembering that the excruciating slowness of the execution here, the incremental-ness of death, is designed by its champions to inure us to it. After the first hour, the second passes with far less fanfare, and the third less still. I've been following this closely, and I needed to remind myself today how many hours Terri Schiavo has actually been without sustenance by counting the days since Friday afternoon and multiplying by 24. How much more easily the time passes, and the world around us changes, for those following only fleetingly, or not at all. Why should we...

TAMPA, Fla. - Warning that Terri Schiavo is "fading quickly," her parents begged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted while they pursue claims that her rights are being violated. advertisement David Gibbs III, attorney for parents Bob and Mary Schindler, told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta that their 41-year-old daughter might die before they get a chance to fully argue their case. The appeal came after a federal judge in Tampa rejected the parents' emergency request earlier Tuesday. "Where, as here, death is imminent, it is hard to...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Port St. Lucie woman who has a daughter on life support said Sunday she sympathizes with Terri Schiavo's parents. Mary Jane Gott's daughter Lisa had a heart attack at 38 and has been in a vegetative state ever since. Lisa Gott is fitted with a feeding tube and respirator and is being cared for in a Staten Island, N.Y., nursing home. Her mother said she could never take her daughter off life support. "When God is ready to put his arms around her and take her, she'll go, and not until then," she said....

Terri Brother ..................Terri early on in a hospice .................. Michael has let his wife deteriate!Compare the early Hospice Photo At this time Terri was able to chew and swallow and was learning to use the pararall bars to walk again...as soon as the malpactice law suit was won Michael Schiavo remember his wife wanted to die...so he would move her from one location to another every time they thought she was ready to start rehab again! Lets try to have the same page to fight the MISLEADING OUT THERE!

I HAVE JUST FINISHED A CONVERSATION WITH A NURSE NAMED NORA. NORA IS A NURSE WHO HAS WORKED WITH TERRI AT HOSPICE. NORA AND I SPOKE FOR A LONG TIME. SHE IS A NURSE WHO HAS COME FORWARD FROM WOODSIDE HOSPICE AND HAS TOLD ME SHE IS APPALLED THAT THEY ARE DOING THIS TO TERRI. SHE TOLD ME TERRI LAUGHS WHEN SHE HAS TOLD HER JOKES. YESTERDAY, NORA WAS TOLD BY THE AGENCY SHE WORKS FOR, THAT WOODSIDE HOSPICE DID NOT WANT HER BACK WORKING AT THE FACILITY. NORA HAS BEEN WORKING THERE FOR TWO YEARS AS AN AGENCY NURSE....

Shameful! There's really no other word to describe what is now both the Terri Schiavo ``case'' and the Terri Schiavo ``law.'' Before there was a ``case'' or a ``law,'' Terri Schiavo was just a 26-year-old woman, wife to Michael Schiavo, daughter of Bob and Mary Schindler. Then in 1990 a heart attack, likely resulting from an eating disorder, cut the oxygen to her brain, putting her in what doctors describe as ``a persistent vegetative state.'' Since then Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers have played dysfunctional family - neither willing to relent on who should have the last word on Terri...

Dear Terry Schiavo, I am saying a Hail Mary for you now and I know that there are many others who are praying for you.May God hold you in His Hand,The Blessed Mother, Mary come to your assistance and may the Son of God ,Jesus Christ,come through your door to heal you completely !! You cannot speak yet hundreds of hearts around the globe, understand you. You call to them and with the voice of a silent angel. I know that those who read this ,too,will send you a message afterwards,you are not alone,your holy angel stands next to you...

"MICHAEL SCHIAVO, Terri Schiavo's husband, finally went on national television last night to tell the world his side of the story. Appearing on "Larry King Live," he strived mightily to play the loving husband. Until more than half way through the interview, when King got around to tentatively asking Schiavo whether or not it is true that he has a girlfriend. (King, who must have known the answer, somehow failed to mention that Schiavo has already sired two children with this woman, who he calls his fiancé.)"...

Appeals are under way after a judge refused early Tuesday to reinstall a feeding tube, in a case with broad legal implications.WASHINGTON – Boiled down to its essence, the ongoing legal dispute over a severely brain-damaged Florida woman might well have been filed in court under the label Theresa Marie Schiavo v. Theresa Marie Schiavo. Both sides in the life-or-death drama unfolding in a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice and federal courtrooms are claiming to be acting in what they believe to be Terri Schiavo's best interests. Yet only one of those parties can be right. The other, while acting with...