Right-To-Die case

[Sky]

A Florida judge has ruled the Department of Children and Families cannot intervene in the Terri Schiavo case.
Circuit Judge George Greer says the agency's attempt to step in at this point appears to be an effort to bypass the court's final judgement. Schiavo has been in a vegetative state for 15 years.

The courts have given her husband permission to remove her feeding tube on March 18.

[granny2young]

Our country has gone to heck when people can legally kill someone they claim to love because they get sick and become a burden on them.

I got an idea Judge, let's start in the nursing homes. They are all a burden and a waste of our tax dollars and family's time. Let's kill all of them, and maybe even kill the babies too because they can't feed themselves yet.

[jaykay]

Why does he want the tube removed? He does not care for her her parents do. Wouldn,t the sensible thing be for him to give her parents control over Terri since he obviously don't want it.A parent never quits caring for their kids when they get older you have to turn them loose to make their own mistakes . Her husband says he knows her wishes but what about what the parents that raised her know.Don't most parents know their children better than anyone else.

[granny2young]

from what I understand, and if I am wrong I am sure someone will correct me, but the husband has a new lover and he cannot move on with his life as long as she is alive and if he persues a divorce he loses a ton of her insurance money.

[BillyBob]

jaykay said:

Why does he want the tube removed? He does not care for her her parents do. Wouldn,t the sensible thing be for him to give her parents control over Terri since he obviously don't want it.A parent never quits caring for their kids when they get older you have to turn them loose to make their own mistakes . Her husband says he knows her wishes but what about what the parents that raised her know.Don't most parents know their children better than anyone else.

I suspect it's because the husband wants her dead. His getting a divorce and/or turning her care over to the parents simply would not fulfill his goals, I suspect. I don't believe there was any talk about her wishes to die until after she (they ) was awarded a couple of million in some sort of lawsuit, money that was supposed to provide for her care. He sees all of that money being used up for her care while he could use it for his new honey and the children they have had together. It's hard for me to see how a man can still be allowed to call himself the "husband" of one woman while he is living and procreating with another woman. This is simply another legal murder, enabled by yet another morally corrupt judge. Or at least that's how it seems from the little I know about it. I sure hope the people of Fla. rise up and stop this apparent evil.

[Sky]

The husband pays for Terry Shaivo's care. The parents are allowed visitation.

I agree he should have given care and control to her parents and be allowed to legally divorce her but because Terry Schaivo can not legally sign a divorce decree in her own behalf and she isn't "missing" or "presumed dead", the husband has legal custody and he contends she would not have wanted to live in her current vegatative state.

The money in question comes from a life insurance policy taken out several months before Terry Schaivo's "incident" and yes, allegations were raised that the policy was taken out so that the husband would profit from her death. There were even allegations that he planned the "incident" which resulted in her condition but none of that was ever proven in a court of law and Mr. Schaivo was never charged with any crime.

[Voodoo]

What accident?? I thought Schiavos' PVS was due to C-P arrest secondary to electrolyte imbalance, which in all probability resulted from an eating disorder.

Gloria Allred, esq., has offered the husband 1 mil to cease court battle.

[granny2young]

You are correct Voodoo:


The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the husband of a brain-damaged woman on Monday by refusing to intervene in a Florida appeal to keep her alive with a feeding tube.

The refusal to intervene, without comment, gives brain-damaged Theresa "Terri" Schiavo's husband, Michael, the right to remove the tube, although other legal appeals are pending.

Terri Schiavo's parents want a feeding tube to remain hooked to their daughter. In a persistent vegetative state, Terri Schiavo, 41, is able to breathe on her own, but is unable to swallow and depends on a feeding tube to remain alive.

After 10 years, her husband says she is not improving and would not have wanted to be kept alive in such a condition.

[snip]

In February 1990, Terri Schiavo's heart stopped beating after she collapsed from a chemical imbalance caused by an eating disorder. She did not have a written directive before her collapse. Ten years later, her husband asked a court to have her feeding tube removed, arguing she had shown no improvement. A judge ruled Terri Schiavo would not have wanted to be kept alive artificially.

Her parents, Bob and May Schindler, appealed, saying their daughter never had expressed such opinions. They are seeking a new trial, arguing she has been denied her due process rights.

The parents have appealed the case to a Pinellas County judge and to a Florida District court asking for intervention.

Speaking in Washington after the court ruled, Bob Schindler called the ruling "pathetic" and "judicial homicide." He contends that, despite the diagnosis of some doctors, his daughter is "awake and alert."

Terri Schiavo's feeding tube has been removed on two occasions, but was later reinserted after emergency legal appeals were filed. She remains hooked to a feeding tube while legal issues make their way through the courts. The refusal by the Supreme Court to intervene will not end the legal appeals.TEXT

[Sky]

Voodoo said:

What accident?? I thought Schiavos' PVS was due to C-P arrest secondary to electrolyte imbalance, which in all probability resulted from an eating disorder.

Gloria Allred, esq., has offered the husband 1 mil to cease court battle.

I'll change the word to "incident" to appease the masses.

Gloria Allred, esq., has offered the husband 1 mil to cease court battle.

If this were really about money one would think Mr. Schaivo would have taken the money and run.

[Sky]

accident: An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm

Just for conversation sake, I seriously doubt Terry Schaivo "PLANNED" the event which left her in a vegatative state.

But...feel free to critique my posts on "semantics".

[granny2young]

as BB said, we can only pray that the people of FL will scream, and scream loudly and do it quick to feed this lady.

[Sky]

granny2young said:

as BB said, we can only pray that the people of FL will scream, and scream loudly and do it quick to feed this lady.

Terry Schaivo is currently being fed.

[granny2young]

yes, for 7 more days and then they punish her by death and take her food and water away.

[Sky]

granny2young said:

yes, for 7 more days and then they punish her by death and take her food and water away.

Yes, the courts have ruled her husband has the right to legally remove her feeding tube.

Bush's Shaivo Law was ruled unconstitutional and upheld by the Supreme Court of Florida.

[Voodoo]

I think and speak from a medical standpoint...with that orientation, "accident" implies external trauma (as opposed to internal causes).
The correct term would be "episode".