Today, Michael Schiavo has promised to withhold food and water from Terri Schiavo to bring about her death. Despite reports that show up in the Mainstream Media, we know that Terri is not a "vegetable" and not "brain-dead". We've seen the videos and have read the depositions.
We need to tell others. Here is what can be done in the time that we have:
- Pray for Terri and her family.
- Blog - communicate the truth about what is going on and rally support for Terri and the Schindlers.
- Visit BlogsforTerri ( http://www.blogsforterri.com) for information and to join the team of blogs for Terri.
- Deluge Gov. Jeb Bush with emails and phone calls. He has the power to intervene. Call him constantly. Here is his contact information:
Governor Jeb Bush
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
850 / 488-4441
850 / 487-0801 (fax) - Deluge President Bush - contact
- Support HB701(click here).
- Important - Bypass the Mainstream Media - pledge support a paid advertisement in the St. Petersburg Tribune to inform its 450,000 paid subscribers about what is really happening to Terri. [http://www.blogsforterri.com/pledge.php]
I think that what Terri's husband is trying to do is outright murder, not euthanasia. Terri is not on the verge of dying. She is not taking medications to keep her alive. She is not feeling the pain that makes us think twice whether she should continue the fight or not. She is healthy. She has the right to live her life. As proper-thinking humans, we should ponder over this matter carefully first. She may not be in her proper thinking to ponder with us, as we all know that she is suffering a brain-damage. She may not be able to talk with us saying she recognizes us. She may not be able to prove it just with a smile. But a smile is still a smile. What we can feel is what she can feel. She feels happy, shall we take that happiness off her face just because her husband says that it's her wish-to die? When all we can see is the grateful smiles of this brave woman, her happiness of being able to live. She is just like us, she may not be mentally capable, but emotionally-she is. And we are not God to take away her happiness and her right of living by cutting off her food supply just because we know she will be like that forever. She is human nonetheless. She may be mentally impaired but she can feel like the rest of us. She can feel the love, she can express her love. She can feel the happiness, she can express her happiness. She can feel the care, she can express her trust. She is in a position right now where she don't need pity. Looking at her face on television, her face doesn't show anger, resentment, hate, anticipation of dying. Instead her face shows the opposite. She smiles and she is happy and grateful that her loved ones are there to take good care of her and protect her. And that's what she needs right now-the love and care, and the encouragement to live on as it is her right to live.