Terri must have taken a turn for the worse, that's probably why they decided to stop the appeals process.
a sad day America. SAD DAY!
At this point, it's probably best.
I think they are preparing for her demise, having done all they could. A real tragedy, I only hope some long-term good comes out of this. So far all we have learned is that the judges rule the land and that there are a lot of FReepers who hate the pro-life movement.
Initially the parents were going to appeal the decision of the 11th circuit three judge panel to the full court, but they have just changed their mind.
Time must really be running out for Terri -- although a doctor, a "specialist of end of life" said, that Terri could still recover completely to her previous state, if she received hydration and food now, because she started out healthy, based on a general assessment -- he has not seen Terri.
Didn't Fox News just say the tube will be connected again?
Political role of the executive.
Yep.
From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371180/posts?page=272#272
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In 1832, two convicted murders were publicly hanged in England. After the hanging the bodies were placed inside iron cages specially fitted to their forms, and placed on gibbets, posts with arms extending from the top from which the iron cages were suspended. The bodies were left to rot in full public view as a warning to other would-be malefactors. These were the last two such executions carried out in England, for "hanging in irons" was considered too ghastly a form a punishment even in those coarse days.
But this form of punishment had already been civilized considerably over the way it had been practiced in medieval England. As originally practiced, "hanging in irons" was done to a live body without the compassionate benefit of a prior neck-hanging.
After a criminal had been convicted and sentenced to death he was delivered in manacles to a blacksmith who proceeded to measure the condemned man's body and to beat the fitted iron bands into a form-fitting cage. It is said that even the most callous and unemotional criminals would break into sobs as they were being fitted for irons. Often they would beg to be killed immediately rather than be subjected to the ordeal that was about to commence.
Having been secured within the iron cage the criminal was taken to a public place and suspended from the arm of the gibbet. Then, they were simply left alone without food or water, to die from dehydration and thirst.
The dreadful spectacle of seeing and hearing a live man die slowly over several days from being deprived of water and food was certainly jarring and discomforting. Indeed it was so much so, that the law was changed to require a quick and merciful death by neck-hanging prior to placing the body in irons.
"Hanging in irons" was one of the manners of death that the founding fathers had in mind when they amended the Constitution to prohibit "cruel and unusual punishment." Today, the most vile and unrepentant serial sociopathic murderer on death row is assured of never having to face such a hideous, cruel, and painful end.
It is the this form of "painless, compassionate" death by starvation and dehydration that Judge Greer, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and United States Supreme Court has condemned an innocent woman, Terri Schiavo, to suffer during this Easter season.
272 posted on 03/26/2005 9:21:47 AM CST by JCEccles (If Jimmy Carter were a country, he'd be Canada.)
smart move... it puts a name, and a face on her MURDERER and his name is GREER!!!
the people of Florida put this undereducated, corrupt political hack into power, and kept him there. The system of electing judges must come to an end.
Terri must have taken a turn for the worse, that's probably
why they decided to stop the appeals process.:^(
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/gilbert_osullivan/alone_again_naturally.html
GILBERT O'SULLIVAN lyrics - "Alone Again (Naturally)"
(Raymond O'Sullivan)
In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to
Make it clear to whoever
Wants to know what it's like
When you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Were people saying, My God, that's tough
She stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to who wouldn't do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about, God in His mercy
Oh, if he really does exist
Why did he desert me
In my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
It seems to me that there are more hearts
Broken in the world that can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do
What do we do
[Instrumental Interlude]
Alone again, naturally
Looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever [Spoken]
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
What's up with that?
One would think Terri has passed the point of no return. Her journey to meet death, which started when she said "I do" in marrying her executioner, is about to end.
Terri - May your Guardian Angels surround you and be with you to guide your way through the stars to be greeted with loving arms by Our Heavenly Father.