Schiavo in Her 'Last Hours,' Father Says Amid Appeals

New York Times ^ | 3/26/05 | RICK LYMAN

[XR7]

Criminal...

Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies, and Pinellas
Park, Fla., police officers arrest 10-year-old Joshua
Heldreth, of Charlotte, N.C., for trespassing on
Woodside Hospice property in Pinellas park, Fla.
Heldreth was attempting to bring Terri Schiavo a
glass of water. Schiavo's feeding tube was removed
by court order Friday, March 18, 2005.

"Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give
You drink?..." And the King will answer and say to them, "Assuredly,
I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My
brethren, you did it to Me." Jesus, from St. Matthew 25:37-40

[TheDeacon]

Someone made the point that Terri would be better off if she were a criminal.

I wonder if Terri could be 'arrested' on some state charge?

[imfleck]

What I especially love about this is how the 10 year old is brainwashed by his parents into doing something that he can't even understand.

[imfleck]

Well then, I suggest rather than rhetoric you go there and "risk it all" yourself.

[MadIvan]

The damage at this point may be irreversible. I fear all we can do at this point is pray for Terri's soul, and say with all our might, that she will not be forgotten, and what happened to her will happen to no one else.

Regards, Ivan

[Earthdweller]

..

Terri Schiavo Before dehydration

God Bless you Terri in your hour of death

Let everyone who said your beautiful smile was fake be haunted by it for the rest of their days.

[The_Reader_David]

The Church grows from the blood of the martyrs and the prayers of the confessors. What matters is doing what is right, not rationally forseeable consequences.

Let Judge Greer file appeals against the actions of the Florida executive rather than the other way around. Let those backing her death be seen to be tyrants when police manhandle pious priests and elderly folk going to perform an act of mercy. Let her receive Holy Unction (or whatever the Latins now call the anointing of the sick) and the Eucharist with what might be her last sips of water, when a wave of righteous folk who fear the Righteous Judge Who sits on the Throne of Glory overcome those who fear more the unrighteous judge who sits in the local district court.

Our little Orthodox mission shares a priest with our mother parish, so we had a Liturgy this morning. At the end we knelt and prayed Psalms 69, 142 and 50 (according to the numbering of the LXX) on Terri's behalf. Since I as a subdeacon am the only person besides our priest who has been tonsured as a reader, it fell to me to read them. I felt as if I was pronouncing a curse on Michael Schaivo, George Felos and Judge Greer, and strangely felt better about doing so than about many many things I have done in my life, even those which are not obviously sinful. Throughout the Diocese of Wichita and the Great Plains, all the Antiochian Orthodox will be doing the same. I wonder how many of the other readers will have the same feeling.

[texasflower]

David, just like all the others, you have failed to address my question.

Even if Jeb decided to break the law, Michael will sue and he will gain custody again.

The courts have made it absolutely clear that they are upholding the law that puts the husband as the next of kin.

He will do this to her again. She is past the point of pain now.

He has now hurt her for the last time.

[frogjerk]

Yeah, 10 years olds are sure dumb, aren't they? Maybe we should let the courts kill them... - sarcasm