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I am thinking about Terri Schiavo tonight. Have you ever been really thirsty? How dry your throat feels, how thick your tongue? Now imagine laying there, not really able to move much, not really able to communicate well, yet alive and aware, and you feel that thirst building up. Other people have gone through this, been brain injured, in a something that looked like a pvs, gotten better and lived to tell about it. They knew exactly what was going on, yelled out in their heads and hearts about how it felt, how it hurt, how the dream of something...

Hate Mail, Threats Go to Man With Judge's Name By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE St. Petersburg Times ST. PETERSBURG -- A judge named George Greer has ordered the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive. A George Greer who isn't the judge wants people to stop calling him to complain. "The first call I got was about three years ago," said Greer, 79, a St. Petersburg retiree who is listed in the phone book but has no connection to the case. "Now they're sending me hate mail, enough to make me concerned." Concerned enough, Greer said, to carry...