TERRI SCHIAVO DAILY MARCH 2005 PART 4, DAY 5 OF HER DEHYDRATION -- PLEASE HANG ON WITH US

Various | 3-23-05

[STARWISE]

Tonight it is, March 22, 2005, over five days since Theresa Marie Schiavo commenced her ordeal of purposeful and legally sanctioned dehydration and starvation. We await a decision from the three judge panel from Eleventh Judicial Circuit as to her fate, as her family struggles with seeing Terri's physical health deteriorate.

[supercat]

You are right about needing the living will and seniors needing to know about it. Terri's plight will help. AARP ought to be on top of it, since their power base is threatened, but they aren't yet.

What makes you think AARP aren't in on the scam?

[nicmarlo]

will these senators listen?

........I pray they do.

[phenn]

Join the club.

Nothing p*sses me off more than to hear his "what about MEEEEEEEE?" carry on.

Someone on a Yahoo board is praising him for taking on the US government and winning single-handed. Obviously that is what this is. A big game. This has nothing to do with honoring his wife.

[valleygal]

Had to catch a few winks...I'm starting to get comments aabout my computer time, myself. ;)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I wouldn't be surprised. My opinion of AARP isn't very high.

[Halls]

Me either, something about his face just sickens me as well. Is it me or does he seem to have a resemblance of that Buttafuco(sp?) guy with his slick hair and ugly masculine look about him. Pure evil if you ask me! How anyone could think it is ok to starve someone to death is just unbelievable! That man is evil, pure evil!

[texasstar]

"What makes you think AARP aren't in on the scam?"

I made a chilling discovery yesterday, supercat.

AARP runs a major insurance company in Tampa. Imagine, gathering retirees together in one organization for the purpose of fleecing them.

But no one would do that, right?

[amdgmary]

THE RIGHT TO KILL TERRI SCHIAVO

Tue Mar 22, 8:41 PM ET

By Maggie Gallagher

Terri Schiavo must die. A federal judge refused to order the tube bringing her food and water reinserted. As you read this, Terri Schiavo is dying of thirst, deliberately induced.

Michael Schiavo, her legal husband, who lives with another woman (the mother of his two children), still claims a husband's right to direct Terri's medical care. And so she must die. He says she would have wanted it that way.

Sixty percent of Americans in the latest Gallup poll apparently agree with Michael Schiavo.

The hope of Terri's parents -- that widespread media coverage including pictures of their smiling, grimacing, moaning, gazing daughter, looking distinctly un-vegetablelike, will save her -- has apparently backfired. We look on their beloved daughter Terri and are mostly appalled and repulsed. Who would want to live like that? Terri herself, in watching the similar decline of beloved relatives, allegedly expressed horror at the prospect, saying (according to court depositions) she wouldn't want to live like that. Well, who would?

So the desperate pleadings of a mother for the life of her child fall on deaf ears. So sorry, Mom, but Terri must die the long, slow, agonizing death of dehydration. It is in her interests, see? Her husband (who has lived for 10 years with another woman) says so. And frankly, we gotta agree with him.

George Felos, an attorney for Michael Schiavo, argued in federal court: "Yes, life is sacred. So is liberty, particularly in this country."

The liberty of a patient to refuse medical treatment, when the treatment is overly intrusive or futile, is well-established. Are we honoring Terri's right to refuse medical care (expressed now by proxy through the man who claims the rights of a husband while he lives with and has children by another woman)? Or are we asserting a right to kill her? Is food and water medical care?

"Persistent vegetative state" was a diagnosis invented in order to cope with patients who are not brain-dead, but severely mentally disabled. The claim is that such people have no cognition, no self-awareness at all, but of course we cannot know for sure what such patients experience. The fact that a number of patients have emerged from persistent vegetative states after many years ought to be a flashing warning sign: There's still someone there, even if that person is unable to communicate. Does that person have a right to life? Is her life sacred too? Or if we find her condition sufficiently repulsive, do we have the right to kill her?

Nor is there agreement that Terri is in a vegetative state right now. Her family disputes it, saying she sometimes responds to their loving gestures and words. Their perceptions are dismissed as wishful thinking. But a neurologist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1999 (and who examined Terri Schiavo several years ago) told BP News (www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20400) that Terri is not in a vegetative state. She sometimes responds. Terri (he says) has been able to swallow pudding in the past, and can swallow her own saliva right now. With therapy, she might not even need the feeding tube. "They are truly withholding food from a person who is awake, alert, and can eat and swallow."

Does that matter? If Terri were capable of drinking water right now, would we be justified in withholding it from her? Are we celebrating her autonomy or her death?

When does the "right to die" become the right to kill?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ucmg/20050323/cm_ucmg/therighttokillterrischiavo

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Was she able to speak to the FL senate last week? Do you know...anyone know?

[bjs1779]

Judge Wilson was the only one that got it. Said the law meant new start from beginning trial.

Since the courts did not follow the law, wouldn't that make a stronger case to use executive power?

[texasstar]

You wrote: Laura's mission is to stop the runaway judiciary, and Terri's struggle with the judicial system is going to be a big issue in the history of this country forever now.

Laura won't let go of this problem that we have with this out-of-control judicial system. She, Mark Levin, and others are going to get the population awakened eventually, I'm sure of it.


WHEN OUR WORK IS DONE IN FLORIDA, WE MUST FREEP ON TO CONTROL THE NEW DICTATOR IN THE WORLD--RUNAWAY JUDGES.

[TruthSetsUFree]

Just a reminder again, that the Florida Senate votes today at 1:00 p.m. on HB 701, the Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Act. Just ONE more senator needs to be convinced to vote for Terri. Let's implore them to vote for the helpless and innocent.

I think we also need to let President Bush and Governor Bush know we fully support their stepping in. Their contact information is below.


FL SENATE EMAIL LIST

alexander.jd.web@Flsenate.gov; bennett.mike.web@flsenate.gov; argenziano.nancy.web@flsenate.gov; bullard.larcenia.web@flsenate.gov; campbell.walter.web@flsenate.gov; carlton.lisa.web@flsenate.gov; dawson.mandy.web@flsenate.gov; dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov; jones.dennis.web@flsenate.gov; king.james.web@flsenate.gov; lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov; sunders.burt.web@flsenate.gov

This is their Phone numbers and Fax lists:

JD Alexander (Majority Whip) 850-487-5044 alexander.jd.web@Flsenate.gov fax (888) 263-3869 and (district office) (863)679-4413

Nancy Argenziano 850-487-5017 argenziano.nancy.web@flsenate.gov fax (352) 860-5177

Michael S. Bennett 850-487-5078 bennett.mike.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5486 and (dist off) (941) 727-6352

Larcenia J. Bullard 850-487-5127 bullard.larcenia.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5450 and (dist off) (305) 668-7346

Walter G. Campbell 850-487-5094 campbell.walter.web@flsenate.gov (850) 487-5394 and (dist off) (954) 346-2815

Lisa Carlton 850487-5081 850-487-5081 carlton.lisa.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5406 and (dist off) (941) 486-2050

M. Mandy Dawson 850-487-5112 dawson.mandy.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5841 and (dist off) (954) 467-4331

Paula Dockery 850-487-5040 dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5385 and (dist off) (863) 413-2902

Dennis L. Jones 850-487-5065 jones.dennis.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5182 and (dist off) (727) 549-6413

James E. King Jr. 850-487-5030 king.james.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5368 and (dist off) (904) 727-3603

Evelyn J. Lynn 850-487-5033 lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5842 and (dist off) (386) 676-4002

Burt L. Sanders 850-487-5124 sunders.burt.web@flsenate.gov fax (888) 263-7893 and (dist off) (239) 417-6223



Also the Governor's and President's info.

http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/government/contacts/contactGov.htmlv

E-mail:
Governor Jeb Bush
jeb.bush@myflorida.com

Telephone:
850/488-4441
Fax: 850/487-0801


White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Phone Numbers

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

TTY/TDD

Comments: 202-456-6213
Visitors Office: 202-456-2121

E-Mail
President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov

[amdgmary]

Terri's mother, Mary, pleads with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow Terri to receive water and food. She cried out, "Terri is dying from thirst."

[texasstar]

Hey, valleygal! If they throw me out of the house for monopolizing the computer, can I come see you, LOL!!!

We'll have a good cry...and maybe a laugh.

If you could see how I LOOK after a week of pajama-freeeping. EEEEEK!

[valleygal]

"google"...I love to google...going now.

[Dante3]

For far too long the judges have come to dominate all aspects of our lives, to rule on their whim and set themselves up as the all powerful.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I think JEB needs to have Pastor Rick Warren (Purpose-Driven Life author)address the FL senate via teleconference today. Pastor Rick Warren's recent appearance on LKL was phenomenal!!

[pollywog]

Had to catch a few winks...I'm starting to get comments aabout my computer time, myself. ;)

Just woke back up here myself. Slept for four hours and feel like a dishrag. I have a nasty headache and I'm broken out all over in hives! What is the latest, if there has been any change since 3am?

[valleygal]

Empire Journal is back at the top.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Hi vg!!!!!!