Posted on 03/31/2005 7:54:01 AM PST by IchBinEinBerliner20
Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a bitter legal dispute, has died, a spokesman for her parents has said. Mrs Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected on 18 March, following a seven-year battle through the courts.
Her husband Michael Schiavo had said his wife would not have wanted to live in her current condition.
The 41-year-old's parents fought to the highest level of the US courts system to keep their daughter alive.
TERRI SCHIAVO CASE Feb 1990: Terri Schiavo collapses May 1998: Mr Schiavo files petition to remove feeding tube Oct 2003: Florida lower house passes "Terri's Law", allowing governor to order doctors to feed Mrs Schiavo Sept 2004: Florida Supreme Court strikes down law 18 Mar 2005: Florida court allows removal of tube 22 Mar 2005: Federal judge rejects appeal 23 Mar 2005: Appeals court backs federal ruling 29 Mar 2005: Federal court grants parents leave to appeal 30 Mar 2005: Federal court and Supreme Court reject parents' appeal 31 Mar 2005: Terri Schiavo dies
Timeline: Terri Schiavo case
Mrs Schiavo died at the Pinellas Park hospice where she lay for years while her husband and her parents fought over whether to keep her alive or not.
Her parents and their two other children were with her up to 15 minutes before she died.
A few minutes before she died, they were told to leave the room by Michael Schiavo, their spokesman said.
They were allowed back into the room after she died.
Father Frank Pavone, national director of the organisation Priests for Life, accused Mr Schiavo of "heartless cruelty".
"This is not only a death, this is a killing," he said. "We grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this."
Mrs Schiavo collapsed after her heart stopped beating temporarily in 1990.
Court-appointed doctors had said she was in a permanent vegetative state and would not recover, but her parents had said she could.
The case galvanised activists from both sides of the euthanasia debate.
Truly sad...something I will remember for the rest of my life...I pray this country does as well.
It is a dark day for America. A local caller questioned whether or not this was a test from God. If it was, we failed.
Drudge's link to MyWayNews says she died "quietly." There was nothing quiet about this death, publically, politically, and physically. Her body convulsed, her breathing became ragged, and her death rattle persisted. It was a struggle to the end.
"Barf Alet" comes to mind.
It would be better to be his dog than his wife. He could not kill the dog by dehydration and starvation with out the SPCA and the government stepping in. But death of a wife by such abuse is accepted by our liberal government.
You were there?
have you been online long? there is a thread
A few minutes before she died, they were told to leave the room by Michael Schiavo, their spokesman said.
How nice of him to deprive them of those last few minutes.
May God have mercy on us.
Even Michael's rabid PVS-over-diagnoser, Dr.Ronald Cranford, said, in 1989, that Physician Assisted suicide is killing.
Brain-damaged Ted Kennedy lives.
i agre with you... that was murder in its purest form. but know terri is now with god and can look down and thank all those who supported her. god help her husband my feelings toward him are not so nice and god help me for feeling that way but i feel he commited murder.
On Fox just now Father Frank Pavone said Terri eyes would look over at him when he would pray with her...even this morning before she died.
brain damaged. they can't write her name without first always saying brain damaged.
Actually that day was January 22, 1973.
Brother Paul O'Donnell, a spokesman for Bob and Mary Schindler, Schiavo's parents, said they were with their daughter's body and praying.
The Schindlers and their other two children earlier requested permission to be with Schiavo during her last moments at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida. Police barred them from being with her, O'Donnell said.
O'Donnell, one of the family's spiritual advisers, said Schiavo's family was "begging to be at her bedside...but are being denied."
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Sadistic beyond words.
Cordially,
Since Michael has claimed that Terri has no awareness of those around her, why was it so important to Michale that her birth family be kept away at the moment of her passing? Afterall, the benefit of comfort from loved ones at the moment of death is for the one dying. Using Michael's theory, it didn't matter who was there except for the opportunity to gouge the Schindler family one last time.
"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
I can barely find the words to express how horrible this is...what her mother must be feeling...God forbid someone try and take my child from me....how can this happen in this country. I have lost so much faith in the American people..i truly thought we were better than that. To take a living, breathing human being and starve her to death because her "quality of life" wasn't up to snuff, it's just beyond words. As a mother, I'm just so sad...
No, I wasn't there. But, then again, I wasn't posting about what happened in the room either...
Maybe because, at the moment of his wife's passing, he didn't want to be in a room full of people who will go on national television and call him a murderer.
I repeat: when was the last time you saw or heard of a person starving and thirsting to death over a period of two weeks, and doing it peacefully? And how many close relatives do you have with backgrounds in the medical field?
I don't care what you've seen before, and I don't care how many medical people you have in your family. That doesn't allow you to speculate what happened in that room and state it as fact.
I heard a clip of Terri Schiavo speaking this morning on the Laura Ingraham show - saying yes and no about feeling pain - does anyone have that audio clip?
Unless, of course, you're looking to enrage a lynch mob.
Okay, now that bastard Michael "Bluebeard" Schiavo can marry his live-in. Good luck to the new wife, because she will surely need it.
The "Culture of Death" has scored one more point.
Is this satire? If so, its more than a little callous. If not, please learn some facts about the case before spreading this kind of nonsense.
Terri, may the angels carry you to glory of Heaven, the dwelling of the God of Mercy, the God of Life.
"brain damaged. they can't write her name without first always saying brain damaged."
I could accept the 'brain damaged' part, because I think her brain probably was damaged. It was the "persistent vegetative state" that I hated to hear.
My heart is aching. I don't know what the future holds, but I hope there is a Christian memorial established for her and the name Schiavo is left off of it.
A sad day - I certainly feel my own portoin of the national shame.
A very long time ago a particularly wily snake convinced a woman related to us all that she and her husband should eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and that she and her husband would then be as gods(!). Very old trick. Obviously, it still works on Murderous Michael and his judicial sycophants and his supporters.
No - this is not satire. I've been following Terri's case for a long time. I think the clip was done before she had dental work performed a few years ago. I think it was her Father who was asking, if Terri had pain in her leg, her ear, her mouth, etc. There was a very discernable difference in her 'yes' and 'no' answers.
May God have mercy on those who participated in this murder of an innocent disabled woman.
How about: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
This presumes michael's ability to love.
vaudine
I have to say this, because I think MS is the lowest creature ever and the ultimate control freak.
My bet is that he stood at the foot of the bed and gloated over winning.
Those last minutes were his victory.
But hey, I'm a mean ole' cynical geezerette who don't see much good in his kind.
Liberals life and death views wrt Terri:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374073/posts
I just think it's dehumanizing to constantly attach "brain damaged" to the front of her name, as if that is what defines her as a person. She's a woman with brain damage, emphasis on woman, not brain damage.
I doubt it. Half this country doesn't remember 9/11, where 3000 people died.
Most of the country will be over this by Monday.
Found the audio clip at: http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=NW05C05
How 'bout "Brain-Damaged BBC shows Bias towards Fascism and the Cult of Death to the innocent and weak"
What? You're surprised the BBC and the liberal media in America share a common viewpoint?? :P
I hope and pray Terri is safe from all these bastards now.
Yes, but many remember WTC911 and many more will remember this and see things in a different light from now on.
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