Schiavo's Parents Vow to Keep Up Fight

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) - One day before the first anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death, her family came to the nation's capital with a pledge to keep fighting "the growing culture of euthanasia."

Schiavo's mother, Mary Schindler, said the foundation formed several years ago to keep her brain-damaged daughter alive would now focus on educating the public about end-of-life decisions.

"We lost in our battle to save Terri, but we believe it is incumbent on us to redirect our efforts to saving the lives of the innocent, who every day are being targeted by the euthanasia cult," Mary Schindler said at a news conference outside the Capitol.

Unlike last year, when Congress, President Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush pressed to keep Schiavo alive, only one lawmaker was on hand Thursday with the Schindlers, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. The conservative lawmaker is considering a bid for president in 2008.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2006/mar/30/033003865.html

[mike_c]

1. maybe thay can prop her corpse up alongside that Jesus on a trailer hitch

She lives! She lives!

[NVMojo]

4. the good news is ...their following has dwindled ....

[rodeodance]

12. Hannity will stick by them

[Maine-ah]

19. it's merely a flesh wound......

[Paranoid Pessimist]

44. Funny how the "heal the sick" televangelists never raise the dead

Wouldn't that be great TV? Night of the living saved, perhps

[DanCa]

2. Hasn't this poor woman been thru enough?

It was bad enough that the Hermaphrodite Sean Hannity exploited her on her death bed, now she can't even find in the grave. I guess human decency is not part of the post 9-11 world.

[bettyellen]

3. that whole useless family found a lucrative career

fucking ghouls

[countmyvote4real]

5. Night of the Living Schindlers vs the Dead Schindler-Schiavo

eom.

[napi21]

6. What's really sad about this whole mess is that Terri was supposed

to have been a very private person. She didn't like being the center of attention. Surely her parents knew that! I know, when this whole thing was going on, I told my son, if you EVER do anything like that to me, I swear I'll haunt you till the day you DIE! How can these parents defame their daughter's memory like this?

[mindwalker_i]

7. How long will this go on?

Gods are created in their followers' image. Will they be talking about this for the next 2k years?

-mwalker

[bettyellen]

9. as long as people donate to their dumbass foundation

this is what the kids do for a living now too, they are speaker for rtl events.
you can rent yourself one!

[Tesha]

35. Only if her ashes rise from the urn. (NT)

[TankLV]

52. Hey - these are probably the same people who worship Elvis!

[KyndCulture]

8. euthanasia cult???

How about makin' money off your dead daughter cult... that's more like it..

fucking assholes.

[Old and In the Way]

10. Very sad story.

Bet all those Republicans, who thought they had struck issue gold back when the whole fiasco was developing in Florida, are nowhere to be found. Probably the same for the RW hucksters who saw a great opportunity to fundraise.....milked that scene dry.

[fearnobush]

11. And who actually believes the GOP is gonna pay real money to keep

these most unfortunate people alive. They had plenty of chances, just had to make the fake Terry bill apply to all US citizens, but hell no, they try to pass a law knowing its unconstitutional because the bill only applied to her. Sick fucks these so called GOP pro lifers are.

[HuffleClaw]

13. a PROFITABLE 'fight'

appalling, and just what the hell is "the euthanasia cult"? these two poor souls have allowed themselves to be coopted by far right fundies and will be discarded like used kleenex the MOMENT they've outlived their usefullness or stray one whit from the 'party line'. i just bet at some point they recant this crap, probably in a couple years.

[Selteri]

14. Wow, think they're trying to get more money out of it?

I know, I know, it's like asking is the there going to be a bleep on any given episode of South Park. :P

Think the republics might b really good to us and try to stand behind that family to 'protect' the 'innocent'?

[longship]

15. Keeping up the fight.

Let's dig 'er up and stick in that feeding tube.

Terry smiled at me. She's watching TV. Terry's gone out for a walk. Now she's on a pogo stick.
:sarcasm:

[sandnsea]

16. Well then they need to go to Texas

Because that's the state where they're pulling plugs without the family's permission.

[mark11727]

17. WHAT "growing culture of euthanasia"?

Aside from the Terri, there's been practically NO PRESS regarding this subject... it's not as though roving bands of renegade judges are popping IV's out of comatose patients' arms right and left, hah?

[BR_Parkway]

18. New Book release, websitefor speaker's tour - Terry Industry could

become the new term in our lifetime.

If you would like someone from the Schindler Family to speak at an upcoming event, please contact the Nashville Speakers Bureau.

All speaking fees earned by the Schindler family are paid directly to the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation Center for Health Care Ethics, the sister organization to the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation.

[Nomen Tuum]

20. Keep the cash register going folks

The Schindlers are lower than scum. Someday, they will be held accountable for turning their daughter into a cash register...

[Bassic]

21. "The growing culture of euthanasia"

Unplugging a person who has been brain dead for 15 years is not euthanasia assholes.

:banghead:

I understand these people's pain, it can't be easy to loose a child, but for fuck's sake they should learn to cope with it in a better way. They need some counciling and to finally mourn their daughter once and for all.

[meegbear]

29. First the "radical homosexual agenda", now this ...

what's next "the creeping topology of organic foods"? The mind boggles with what could be forced onto our great nation.

[LostinVA]

22. I wish these people would win Megamillions so they'd disappear

[FiveGoodMen]

37. Might not work. What if it's the attention that they're after?

[LostinVA]

23. How long before the Michael-Schiavo-is-garbage people show up?

[FredScuttle]

47. Believe me, Lost

I got somethin for their ass

[tsuki]

24. Then they need to get their asses to Texas where the family

has absolutely NO say.

[Vidar]

25. Pro life only for those who don't want it.

[0007]

26. Oh My Fucking God! Don't these brain dead people ever give up?

Or is it just sour grapes that make them so nasty.

[zbdent]

27. Their fifteen minutes of fame

are up . . . but the paychecks from the religious Reich are just too much to ignore . . .

[underpants]

28. I thought the euthenasia were rioting

or was that the eutheneurope?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

30. Olbermann's interview w/Michael S. was very revealing about Schindlers

From the interview transcript:

SCHIAVO: I think the Schindlers got caught up in the right to life movement. I believe they have sold their souls to these people. I do believe that her mother understands. I do believe her mother knew that this was Terri‘s wish.

But her mother was kind of controlled. So, as far as the rest of the Schindlers, I mean, if you look at her sister and brother before the media showed up, I think I can count on one hand in the last 10 years that Bobby ever visited Terri.

Suzanne, I don‘t think she ever visited Terri.

I mean, when Bobby walked into the nursing home prior to Woodside, they had to ask him for identification because they didn‘t know who he was. And to stand out there and say the things he said just blew my mind.

OLBERMANN: What changed them in your opinion? What—was there guilt that motivated them at that point? You say that your former in-laws had sold their souls to those—to the activists. Was that—what made this all happen this way inside them do you think?

SCHIAVO: I believe that they have been fed so much information through the Randall Terry‘s of the world, through the coalitions, the right to life coalitions, they were just inundate with this stuff and fed them power and gave them power to do what they were doing.

Like I said, with their father, I don‘t want to get into any back stabbing or anything like that, but a little greed with him. I believe her that mother, like I said, who really knew that this was Terri‘s wish. If you can watch Terri‘s mother throughout that whole proceeding, especially at the end when she made her speeches, you can tell that she was told what to say.

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Full transcript and video here:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12053746/

[BlueInPhilly]

31. From Ben Stiller's Look-alike

Terri's brother, Bobby Schindler, said the foundation will work to eliminate the "persistent vegetative state" diagnosis and to have feeding tubes for severely injured patients considered ordinary, not extraordinary, care.


And replace it with what? Hasn't this been decided by the medical community?

[TankLV]

53. I'm sure all the insurance companies will be fighting hard for this, too!

Really, I am!

Really!

I

...

Calling "dr" frist!

[LostinVA]

33. This is interesting to me because of Terri's Mom

I've beens saying for a long time (even before the freak show last year), that I felt Terri's mom was sincere, and I got a decent vibe off of her... then, she seemed to morph into something totally different, and started saying nutty stuff. The siblings, especially, creeped me out. And the dad? Forget it...

[Endangered Specie]

32. I take it their bank accounts are running low again?

[Roland99]

34. Wonder if they'll change tunes if one of them gets a debilitating illness?

[SaveElmer]

36. The growing culture of right wing bible thumping fanatics....

Trying to tell everyone else how to live their lives...and even how they are supposed to die....is far more accurate!!!

I'm done feeling sorry for these people...I wish they would just go away!!!

[depakid]

38. "....focus on educating"

That much I have to agree with.

Starting with the Schindlers and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.

On second thought- the Kansas Senator, like his Oklahoma colleage Inhofe- is a lost cause.

[Odin2005]

39. The parents are victims too, in a way.

The fundie fuckers are taking advantage of the parents' grief-based denial for political purposes.

[mondo joe]

48. What makes you think they are less responsible than their

fundie fucker friends?

Seems to me that it's just displacing the blame one more step.

[sutz12]

40. They shoot horses, don't they?

Grand old flick.

We'll let animals die with dignity, but not people. Oh no. God wants you to suffer. :sarcasm:

[hedgehog]

41. The really weird thing about all this is that most people are scared

to death of being "hooked up to a machine"! From what I hear, that happens all to often because the people don't discuss this ahead of time with family members and don't put their wishes down in writing in a proper legally binding document. Check your state laws and take care of this right now. Sometimes being hooked up to a machine is a bridge that gives the body time to heal. It kept my dad alive as he recovered from a stroke 29 years ago and he's still alive, well and working. Sometimes it allows a family time to gather to say good-bye in the case of an accident. That's happened several times in my extended family. It's cruel to use them to stretch out a natural expected death such as end-stage Alzheimer's , cancer or heart disease.

[AnneD]

46. I see people kept alive....

because of guilt and selfishness. Those left behind have unresolved feelings and issues with the person or the other members of the family. I think how you die is a distillation of how you lived. I have witnessed a number of deaths and all have been different. All the family dynamics come in to play.

The beautiful deaths....a man in his tiny hospital bed with his and 2 young daughter cuddeling and talking softly. A young son whispering Cajun French terms of endearment in to his elderly father's ear as he was taking his last breaths.

The heroic deaths...a man with NO audible blood pressure sitting up, talking with his family, waiting for his son to make it to his bedside-and dying only after he spoke to his son. A mother enduring hell on earth to have one more day with her baby and dieing on Easter Sunday, leaving her Pastor and I with a sense of bitter sweet joy.

The ugly deaths... having 2 sons fist fight while their dieing father is in tears, begging them to stop. But I have to say, Terry's was one of the ugliest I have heard of.


I haven't seen them all but from what I have seen, I tend to side with Michael. I base this on the fact that he was always by her side and never waivered from his statements. She received great care, even in the most difficult of circumstances. He honoured his commitment to Terry through out. I hope he can go on with his live, but as Terry's parent's seem to be unable to, I hope he can have some measure of peace.

[hedgehog]

50. I wanted to say that, but I didn't have the first hand knowledge.

Thank you.

St Francis' Canticle of the Sun refers to Sister Death. None of us likes to say good-bye to a loved one, but that is different from knowing when it is time to let go. My family lost a beloved uncle a few years back. He was in his eighties but in good health. He died after tripping on the stairs and hitting his head. He was in the hospital for about two weeks and it looked at first as if he might recover, but then it was clear that he wasn't going to make it back and he made it known that it was his time and the family honored his wishes. Could we have kept him alive a few more weeks? Maybe. Probably. Would it have been right? No.

[LongTomH]

42. The Repubs deserve to lose BIG over this!

Effin' Ghouls! :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

Heaven help Michael! They must be making his life a living hell with this publicity. He may have to go into hiding to prevent some "Christian" people from killing him!

[WinkyDink]

43. They are sick puppies.

[ismnotwasm]

45. Are they volunteering at nursing homes?

Nursing homes need a lot of help. They can stay at the bedside of someone with end stage Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, or perhaps a terminal brain tumor and help feed, bath and clean incontinence. Across the country these people are LIVING, and are NOT being "euthanized" Nurses, nursing assistants and other staff do their very best despite budget cuts and understaffing to care for people like these. Some have tube feedings, and they will die with tube feedings, with their lungs filling until they can no longer breathe because the body just isn't going to work any more. This scenario is much more common than "pulling the plug" Jesus.
I worked in a nursing home for 11 years. And most families, even the ones who kept their loved ones "full codes" necessitating multiple trips to the hospital, picking up resistant infections, knew when it was time to let go. I have sat at many a deathbed surrounded by grieving family members, who managed to give their loved one a little dignity at the end.

If these people really want to make a difference, I suggest they spent part of each week at a nursing home, rehab center, burn center, Cancer center. They can read to dying children. They can show patience to a senile elderly person who says the same thing over and over. They can learn how to show empathy and love to those who have lost, or are losing a family member

What they are doing now is the height of hypocrisy. Because whatever their honest personal beliefs, they have spend enough time with their daughter where she died to have seen what happens to others, to see the need of others. Other families have different choices. Evidently they think they are more qualified to make these choices for others.

"Cult of Euthanasia" Bullshit.

[HockeyMom]

49. My Mom and her Living Will

I was her Health Proxy and had POA. Months before she went into the hospital, she not only made out her Living Will, but planned and paid for all her funeral arrangements.

She told me, "I do not want to be kept alive as a vegetable, as some kind of science experiment to see how long my body can be kept alive. When my mind goes, I am no longer here. Let me go. If you do not follow my wishes, when I do die, I will come back and haunt you for the rest of your life."

Can that be any clearer? The government AND the Schindler's need to let people die in peace, according to how the individuals so choose.

[orleans]

51. euthanasia cult----god, are they ever creepy

if you weren't already dead wouldn't you die if your parents did this to you?

[NMMNG]

54. Maybe they can take their fight to Texas

To overturn the "Futile Care Law" their pal GWB signed into effect when he was Gubna--you know, the law that allows hospitals and physicians to cut off care for people not expected to recover if people can't afford to pay for it. Apparently he's only "pro-life" for rich folk. :eyes:

[mitchum]

55. Schiavo's Parents Vow To Keep Up Huck$tering

"This sure beats working!"