Posted on 03/27/2005 7:07:38 PM PST by jcsmonogram
I have a question for you regarding Terri Schiavo.
I understand that Judge Greer is apparently able to enforce the removal of the feeding tube at Michael Schiavo's request. I'm assuming that he cites the feeding tube as "medical treatment."
But how can she legally be denied ice chips on her lips or water in her mouth? This isn't "medical treatment." She swallows her own saliva, perhaps she could swallow water in small quantities.
I don't know if there's anything here that can help legally, but it's just something my wife and I thought of that didn't make sense to us. It seems that no one - not even Judge Greer or Michael Schiavo - can deny the oral administration of hydration.
Judge Greer may have placed himself above man's laws but he is not above God's laws. There may not be justice in this world, but in the next Greer will face the fires of hell. Who then will be arrested trying to bring him a glass of water?
Exactly!! I think people would accept the feeding tube taken out IF they at least offered her water. but the problem is, she would swallow...and if she swallows, their whole case falls apart. There is a reason they would not allow swallow tests and therapy....and why they won't allow ice chips. They would no longer be able to use the rationale that Terry didn't want to be "hooked to machines or tubes.." as a reason to starve her
The people who have physical and medical custody of Terri and who follow Greer's order will have their actions very carefully scrutinized.
I look forward to seeing the hospice and the country on the receiving end of a very large wrongful-death lawsuit.
And I look for an accounting into why Greer didn't follow the letter of the law w/r/t Michael Schiavo's guardianship filings.
Let's see if I understand your logic here. The feeding tube must be removed so that she can die "naturally", but no one is allowed to offer her water or nutrition using "natural" methods because she might die. Yeah, that sounds right to me. (sarcasm off).
Ever since the police were posted at her bedside, no one has been allowed to give her ice or water...hence the child, and others arrested for trying. People are trying, but the good 'ole judge thought of everything and no one can succeed. I think that even if Terri, herself, got the miraculous ability to ask for a drink of water, she'd be denied!
OK. I'm scared now.
Well said. It is easy to forget that, and start chasing something that isn't really there.
The latest guardian ad litum seemed to thing she might be reacting specifically to her mother, so why not put it to the test?
I don't know what their adultry laws are.
He didn't learn sensory deprivation on his own. Felos the death merchant helped, and Greer happily went along with everything they fed him.
"fools in black robes"
Despots, no, tyrants, no, royalty.
Wouldn't you just love to consider going into Greer's court from now on for some reason for a decision of guardianship or life and death? Well, death anyway. I am actually not being sarcastic here. I would take myself out of Dodge 10 seconds ago.
There's only $50,000 left in Terri's trust fund, so it's way past time for her to shuffle off this mortal coil. Felos has probably racked up that much in fees in the last week....He is on the board of this hospice and supposedly wangled a deal where she was able to stay (when all other patients are terminal), perhaps at no cost. This entire, horrible case smells to high heaven.
Isn't there a life insurance policy involved? Why couldn't the police have intervened...if they suspected she was abused, perhaps strangled, and that the motive had always been money? A Catch 22? Because they didn't have enough proof to convince a judge? And once it landed in a judge's lap, they had to follow Fla. law...which meant Michael the husband's wishes were paramount. This has probably already been discussed to death, but you'd think Fla. legislators would wonder if their laws didn't need changing. If Kill on Demand/Euthanasia becomes legal, we're no better than the Netherlands, where doctors have been allowed to murder the ailing and elderly at their discretion. There have been problems with doctors paid off handsomely when sizable life insurance/inheritances were involved.
Felos was behind getting feeding tubes classified as a life-prolonging procedure in 1999. After that law passed (and I assume Jeb signed the bill into law), the lawyers went back to Greer and asked for Terri's feeding tube to be removed.
Before MS hit the jackpot with the money from the malpractice lawsuit, he was in and out of jobs in the restaurant industry. Sheesh, if you can't hold a job at Denny's...
*blush* sorry...
It's puzzling that the SCOTUS didn't see any reason to review this case. Does anyone know what their reasoning was?
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