[Dasaji]

Didn't see this after a search.

[Dasaji]

Sorry if this is somewhere else...I saw it in my e-mail this am and was thrilled that a voice of reason is coming forward. Wolfson appeard to be a wet noodle last year and I think his present comments are very important to get the truth out and in the open.

[newgeezer]

to put to rest lingering questions about whether she has any hope of recovery

Of course, this nonchalant, innocent sounding statement assumes there is no point to her living in her present state.

No wonder the average Joe on the street, if he's even heard of the case, thinks Terri Schiavo barely even exists in a vegetative state and is being kept alive only by machines.

[NYer]

USF Professor Jay Wolfson

EUTHANASIA - Often disguised by the name "mercy killing," euthanasia also is a form of homicide. No person has a right to take his own life, and no one has the right to take the life of any innocent person.

In euthanasia, the ill or elderly are killed, by action or omission, out of a misplaced sense of compassion, but true compassion cannot include intentionally doing something intrinsically evil to another person (cf. EV 73).

EV John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)

Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[NYer]

Man "finds" Wife unconscious.

Man keeps Wife unconscious.

Man gets malpractice money for Wife.

Man wants Wife's money.

Man wants Wife dead so Man can have money.

Man gets Lawyer.

Lawyer is/was Hospice Board Member.

Lawyer promises Man that Wife will die at the Hospice...

TERRI SCHIAVO PING! ­

[penowa]

"He tried to broker an agreement between the two..."

Somebody please explain to me how you half-kill someone? What kind of deal do you make between somebody who wants a person dead and somebody who wants the person to live? She's already maimed and disabled so that can't be the point of agreement.

[Theodore R.]

Wolfson seems "fairer" now than he did at the time of his initial appointment. However, George W. Greer essentially ignored him entirely. I think that Terri should live as she is, whether she can swallow or not, and I think that she can probably swallow certain soft foods. I wonder if Wolfson has reentered the picture to make himself well-known or to offer a last-ditch hope for Terri. I don't think George W. Greer will listen to anyone or anything. That still small voice in his head is motivating George W. Greer, and it could not be the voice of GOD. Impossible Giatmaltyfor

[hattend]

BTTT

[lonevoice]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A former court-appointed advocate for a brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die battle says the woman should undergo new medical tests to put to rest lingering questions about whether she has any hope of recovery.

This is odd, given Wolfson's 2003 findings when he was acting as Terri's guardian ad litem:

Wolfson assessed Terri's case by reviewing hundreds of court documents, interviewing family members, doctors and specialists, and visited Terri on several occasions.

He eventually claimed Terri is in a persistent vegetative state and determined that Terri had no chance of recovery.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1045554/posts

[floriduh voter]

Wow! What do you know, this former guardian's conscience is starting to bother him. This is great news. ALL THE PRAYERS AND LOBBYING IS STARTING TO GAIN MOMENTUM FOR TERRI.

Not everyone over here wants to be on the death squad after all.

[Future Useless Eater]

>>a new medical examination is needed to put to rest the years-long battle over whether Terri has any chance of recovering from her disabilities should she be given the medical care and rehabilitation she's been denied for a decade.

That jack@ss is also trying to frame the debate over whether or not she can RECOVER.

Never mind that other family member would be happy to take over her permanent care AS-IS, without ANY further recovery.

[tutstar]

bttt

[supercat]

One question I wish I could ask Mr. Wolfson: if the tests would be the right thing for Terri to do in the presence of agreements to be bound by it, why would they not be the right thing to do regardless>