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Michael Schiavo Lawyer's Personal Spirituality of Death
Opinionjournal.com Best of the Web Today ^ | 3/28/05 | James Taranto

Posted on 03/28/2005 8:17:13 PM PST by Jacksonville Patriot

Death Is Beautiful? Possibly the creepiest moment in the Terri Schiavo saga came Saturday afternoon, when George Felos, Michael Schiavo's lawyer, appeared at a press conference without his client. Felos described having visited Mrs. Schiavo, who at that point had gone eight days without food and water. "Frankly when I saw her . . . she looked beautiful," Felos told the assembled reporters...That's just weird.

It turns out that Felos's weirdness goes deeper still. In a 2003 article, Florida Baptist Witness editor James Smith looked at Felos's 2002 book, "Litigation as Spiritual Practice." Felos's views on the "right to die" are informed by a "syncretistic" spirituality that "mixes diverse religious traditions--including generous citations from the Bible and references to Jesus Christ--creating a composite of his own spiritual worldview."

Smith quotes at length a story from Felos's book about Estelle Browning, the subject of Felos's first right-to-die case:

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KEYWORDS: felos; law; schiavo
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Go to the "Opinion Journal" article: I had to cut out Felos' rapturous desciption of Ms. Browning's imminent death.
1 posted on 03/28/2005 8:17:14 PM PST by Jacksonville Patriot
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

He had never seen Terri looking so perfectly beautiful as on her death bed, starving and dehydrating to death. What a despicable ghoul.


2 posted on 03/28/2005 8:18:11 PM PST by Saundra Duffy ("Where there's life, there's hope." Theresa Marie SCHINDLER)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
I felt the mid-section of my body open and noticed a strange quality to the light in the room. I sensed her soul in agony. As she screamed I heard her say, in confusion, "Why am I still here . . . Why am I here?" My soul touched hers and in some way I communicated that she was still locked in her body. I promised I would do everything in my power to gain the release her soul cried for. With that the screaming immediately stopped. I felt like I was back in my head again, the room resumed its normal appearance, and Mrs. Browning, as she had throughout this experience, lay silent.

This guy is just nuts!

3 posted on 03/28/2005 8:22:32 PM PST by jwalburg (Those buried included children still clutching toys)
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To: jwalburg

I wonder if power hunger does this to a person.


4 posted on 03/28/2005 8:23:48 PM PST by jwalburg (Those buried included children still clutching toys)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

I find hearing or reading the words of this man far more terrifying than any horror movie. He is definitely a ghoul and there is no doubt that he actually sees himself as as some sort of angel of death.


5 posted on 03/28/2005 8:24:41 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
Time to take Felos out the back for a little "baseball bat therapy"...
6 posted on 03/28/2005 8:26:04 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Someone should lock him up and throw the key into a volcano.


7 posted on 03/28/2005 8:27:08 PM PST by b4its2late (Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
Another nut job New Age'er.
8 posted on 03/28/2005 8:30:35 PM PST by fso301
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

He must really fixate on those WWII death camp photos then. (Another black mark against this assclown is that for some reason he reminds me of alan dershowitz in looks and actions.)


10 posted on 03/28/2005 8:32:46 PM PST by E=MC<sup>2</sup> (...And on the 666th day, satan created the demonrat party.)
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Yeah, I heard this discussed on Glenn Beck today. And folks call me a "whack-job" because I read and believe the Bible.

So, as long as I am going to be called a "whack-job" and "thumper" anyway. I may as well state that either this guy is:

(1)Making this up.
(2)Nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake.
(3)Communing with demons!

This is one sick puppy. Glenn Beck, tongue in cheek, suggested Felos was actually channeling Hilter! It was funny, but this is scary at the same time.


11 posted on 03/28/2005 8:35:04 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: E=MC<sup>2</sup>

actually Felos reminds me of Chevy Chase. No rhyme or reason.

I don't know if his euthanasia crusade made him nuts, or if his being nuts led to the euthanasia crusade. Another thing we'll never know.


12 posted on 03/28/2005 8:36:37 PM PST by Fudd Fan (MaryJo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

sould speaking.

Felos believes he can speak to the souls of the near dead.?


13 posted on 03/28/2005 8:38:16 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Felos is full of crap. I should know.

John Edwards

(insert theme from Twilight Zone here)

14 posted on 03/28/2005 8:42:13 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Here come da king, er, judge!)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

After having endured his press conference and reading this passage from his book I am firmly convinced that a great injustice is being perpetrated here and this guy is a serious menace. He is creepy and crazy!


15 posted on 03/28/2005 8:49:47 PM PST by drt1
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To: longtermmemmory
not only that -- they talk back to him. And he communicates with airplanes, too. It's in his book.
16 posted on 03/28/2005 8:54:59 PM PST by cyn (it's sarcasm, but Jim King really said it.)
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To: drt1

Yesterday when he invoked the "holy Day" of Easter I thaught he was going to be struck by lightening,right there.
Wow! he sure has chosen his side and his judgement day is going to come.


17 posted on 03/28/2005 8:57:06 PM PST by northernlightsII
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

The guy is also channeling money into his bank account and his investment portfolios where it will also "talk" to him. Given the size of his ego, nothing that he says or thinks of surprises me. He's kind of a George Soros to the dying, a creep but a smart creep which makes him even scarier.


18 posted on 03/28/2005 9:01:20 PM PST by Winston7000 (Near Chicago)
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To: undercover brother
"When I heard that, I could not believe it. Even more unbelievable was that no one in the media said "WTF?"

They didn't say anything because they don't want to be considered crazy by delving into the issue. Believe me, I know. I lost 3 friends tonight because of my opinion of Felos.

19 posted on 03/28/2005 9:06:22 PM PST by sageb1
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