Floridas House and Senate are considering a dehydration and starvation protection act that would require stronger evidence of informed consent prior to removing assisted food and fluids from an incapacitated patient.
With your help, the Florida legislature may still pass this bill that will save Terri Schiavo. Please contact the list of Senators below. They need your input.
TAKE ACTION: Call these ten Senators NOW:
Larcenia J. Bullard
850-487-5127Walter Campbell, Jr.
850-487-5094J.D. Alexander
850-487-5044Nancy Argenziano
850-487-5017Paula Dockery
850-487-5040
Lisa Carlton
850-487-5081Evelyn J. Lynn
850-487-5033Burt L. Saunders
850-487-5124Michael Bennett
850-487-5078Dennis Jones
850-487-5065
Who pays to keep Terry alive? Have you pro-life bloggers taken up a collection? While you are collecting why not collect for my friend who has just been downsized out of a job and cannot afford health insurance. Or does he have to become comatose before you people give a damn?
THE BLATENT INCONSIDERATION AND LACK OF REGARD FOR ALL INCAPASITATED PEOPLE IS BEING DIPLAYED BEFORE OUR EYES! FOR THESE JUDGES NOT TO CONSIDER THE FACTS OF THIS CASE IS AN ABOMINATION. TO IGNORE THE PLEES OF THE PARENTS AND FAMILY IS NEGLIGENT AND IS A CRIME AGAINST TERRI'S BASIC INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AS A HUMAN BEING UNDER LAW...IF YOU DON'T SPECIFICALLY HAVE A WRITTEN LIVING WILL IT IS ILLEGAL TO KILL.
Look you guys have any of you really looked and read all the material about terri or are you just reading the one sided info here. My husband teaches CPR and First Aid. Everyone must know that Terri had bulimia. She had a heart attack from low potassium. Falling down from a heart attack can cause severe damage because you fall unnaturally. (I knew a 4 year old healthy little girl who broke her arm falling off the couch and childrens bones are harder to break) Also CPR was performed on Terri which could have very very very easily been the reason she had fractured ribs and doctored have confirmed that. If you do CPR correctly ribs can easily be broken. Blaming her husband is a cop out by her parents. Her parents are just blaming him because they have no one else to blame. Mentally because terri suffered from bulimia she was not in her right state of mind and was a sad person. Do think a person like this who wanted to be perfect would want to live like this? The courts who have decided this case have heard alot more information then us from both sides and have concluded that the feeding tube is only prolonging the sad life of terri. Part of her brain is no longer functioning.. the most important part..a brain scan has showed that..her cerebral cortex which provides information to and from the brain for the purpose of sensory information. What we see on tapes are just snipets of long video tapes. People who are in the kind of state that terri is involentarily make sounds and movements and yes sometimes its from outside stimulation, but it is not from being processed correctly. Its just part of the brain repeating old functions. Terri can never get better.. that part of her brain can never be restored or grow back or anything. All this is besides the fact that this is none of our business. Would you want the world deciding what happens to you upon the end of your life? Also Terri very much cared how she looked. It was so important to her that she tried to starve herself to death. Does terri look like herself anymore? Can terri even be anything near to what she was before. Terri had rehibilitation early on and it did nothing for her. They even tried putting electrods in her brain to try and stimulate it. All attempts have failed to try and give Terri some kind of quality to her life. There is a better life waiting for Terri. One with a new body.. without pain and suffering and one that will be eternally healthy and happy without tears. Although there are many people here who think that they are trying to save a helpless women what they are really doing an Look you guys have any of you really looked and read all the material about terri or are you just reading the one sided info here. My husband teaches CPR and First Aid. Everyone must know that Terri had bulimia. She had a heart attack from low potassium. Falling down from a heart attack can cause severe damage because you fall unnaturally. (I knew a 4 year old healthy little girl who broke her arm falling off the couch and childrens bones are harder to break) Also CPR was performed on Terri which could have very very very easily been the reason she had fractured ribs and doctored have confirmed that. If you do CPR correctly ribs can easily be broken. Blaming her husband is a cop out by her parents. Her parents are just blaming him because they have no one else to blame. Mentally because terri suffered from bulimia she was not in her right state of mind and was a sad person. Do think a person like this who wanted to be perfect would want to live like this? The courts who have decided this case have heard alot more information then us from both sides and have concluded that the feeding tube is only prolonging the sad life of terri. Part of her brain is no longer functioning.. the most important part..a brain scan has showed that..her cerebral cortex which provides information to and from the brain for the purpose of sensory information. What we see on tapes are just snippets of long video tapes. People who are in the kind of state that terri is involuntarily make sounds and movements and yes sometimes its from outside stimulation, but it is not from being processed correctly. Its just part of the brain repeating old functions. Terri can never get better.. that part of her brain can never be restored or grow back or anything. All this is besides the fact that this is none of our business. Would you want the world deciding what happens to you upon the end of your life? Also Terri very much cared how she looked. It was so important to her that she tried to starve herself to death. Does terri look like herself anymore? Can terri even be anything near to what she was before. Terri had rehabilitation early on and it did nothing for her. They even tried putting electrodes in her brain to try and stimulate it. All attempts have failed to try and give Terri some kind of quality to her life. There is a better life waiting for Terri. One with a new body.. without pain and suffering and one that will be eternally healthy and happy without tears. Although there are many people here who think that they are trying to save a helpless women what they are really doing and prolonging the suffering of a dieing women.
The right to die can not be an issue if you don't have a living will legally! the decisions of these judges to not allow an emergecy intervention to consider the facts have been ignored over and over. The obvious negligence to not look at the diagnosis of terri is a flagrent disregard for the consideration of her rights.
The ignorant truly are bliss! I wish i could be so ignorant... It would sure make me feel alot better...
It is very evident that after Terri spent two years in her broken state of consciousness that here husband was ready to dispose of her. He had grown tired of his vows of for better or worse and was plotting to engage the till death do us part clause of the contract.
Hey Mark Esposito, at least your friend has a friend like you who cares. Unlike Terri who has a husband who wants her dead. Pray you don't wind up in the same circumstances!
Terri needs to have her feeding tube put back in. This is soo important. IT setting a presidence on all people with feeding tubes. IT is not right to starve a person to death.
What if you had a baby - it can't feed itself either - are you not going to feed it?? What is the difference. Terri can't feed herself - a baby can't feed itself!!!! We don't starve babies becasue they can't feed themselves!!!
Terri has a right to be with her parents - who love her. She has a right to be fed!!! Just as you or I have a right to be fed. A feeding tube is NOT life suport - it is a means to eat with - that is all no more and no less. I have 2 children with feeding tubes - are they going to be able to keep them and be fed by them?? I don't want someone pulling there tubes out. They are very much alive - just like Terri is VERY much alive.
PLease save Terri!!!!!!!!!!
Marianne
Hi Mark,
I tried to email you with this, but it bounced back. Your email is not letting things through right now.
Many are willing to help financially support Terri in fact; there is a collection for a fund at terrisfight.org. You may also contribute, if you wish to. No one would want that burden put onto her husband - he has wide opportunity to divorce her and move on with his life, and to hand over her guardianship to others. There should be no burden on him. As to your friend, let me know, and I will send a bit of money your way for him. I just need an address. I don't have much but will give what I can, and I will be glad to help him.