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Terri Schindler Memorial
March 31, 2010
Who determines the “quality of life”?
March 31st commemorates the 5th anniversary of the death of Terry Schindler. We do not use Terri’s married name Schiavo. It was her husband, Michael Schiavo, who fought in the courts to have Terri’s feeding tube removed and have her starved and dehydrated to death. It took thirteen agonizing days for Terri to die in this manner. Armed guards kept anyone from even giving her cracked ice to ease her blistered lips.
Despite Michael Schiavo’s claim that Terri died a painless, dignified death, Terri Schindler was in fact tortured to death. Starvation and dehydration can be nothing less than torture. Where were the horrified opponents of water boarding in 2005?
Father Frank Pavone of Priests For Life had access to Terri’s room during those thirteen days. You can read his account of the agony Terri suffered in Terri’s Final Hours.
In the following video from 2007, Father Frank discusses Terri’s death and the debate over government’s place in protecting the disabled. Some members of congress attempted to intervene on Terri’s behalf. Ultimately they were overruled by Circuit Court Judge George W Greer, of the Pinellas-Pasco, FL Sixth Judicial Court, who ordered the feeding tube removed.
President George W Bush could have saved Terri’s life with the stroke of a pen, but inexplicably refused to intervene.
Priests for Life and Terri’s Foundation established March 31st as Terri’s Day, the “International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Schiavo, and All of Our Vulnerable Brothers and Sisters. Its purpose is to foster education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the disabled, and advocacy for people in situations similar to what Terri and her family faced so that no one will again suffer as she did.”
A memorial Mass is celebrated each year for Terri at Ave Maria University, in Florida. Father Frank Pavone will again celebrate this year’s mass.
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation is dedicated to “Helping Families Fight for Those Who Cannot Fight for Themselves”. “Terri’s Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group dedicated to helping persons with disabilities, and the incapacitated who are in or potentially facing life-threatening situations. The clear focus of Terri’s Foundation now and in the future is to help others avoid tragedies that reflect what Terri endured.”
“Terri’s Foundation anticipates establishing Terri Schindler Schiavo 
neurological centers to provide care for brain injury victims and support for their families.”
Tickets for The Terri Schiavo Life And Hope Concert on April 11th, in Indianapolis, IN, can be purchased through the foundation website. The concert will feature Country Music Stars Randy Travis and Collin Raye. A Life That Matters, the Schindler family’s account of the struggle to save Terri’s life can also be purchased through the site, or click on the graphic at the right.
“Quality of life”
In 2005 we were told by sanctimonious liberal/progressives in congress that government had no right to “interfere” in Michael Schiavo’s decision to deprive his helpless wife of food and water. The starvation and dehydration of a woman by a man who had a financial interest in her death, and was now living with another woman, was a “family matter”.
In 2010, these same members of congress have conferred upon the federal government the power to make similar “end of life” and treatment decisions for the seriously ill, the elderly and the disabled. The end of Terri Schindler’s life is a glimpse of the future under Obamacare.
Terri was not on life support. No one could just “pull the plug” ending her life in a matter of minutes. Terri was a functioning, disabled human being, loved and cared for by her parents and siblings, who simply needed assistance to eat and drink.
But a circuit court judge concluded that Terri’s life lacked “quality” and ordered Terri be deprived of nourishment and hydration. It took thirteen days to kill her. Anyone torturing an animal to death in a similar fashion would be jailed for cruelty.
Government employees in the socialized medicine chain of command will now have similar power to determine whether or not our lives have sufficient “quality” to warrant medical care. Indeed, during the midst of the healthcare debate last fall, our noble president himself declared to a group of liberal/progressive rabbis that “we are God’s partners in life and death”.
Over the last year, controversy arose over the possibility that murderers executed by lethal injection might experience some pain or discomfort during the six or seven minutes it takes to die. Since the procedure begins with a massive dose of the sedative sodium pentothal, the possibility of the condemned feeling anything is nil. Yet hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent researching the issue. Countless hours of arguments consumed the time of our courts.
No such concern was given for Terri Schindler, sentenced to death by starvation and dehydration.
And perhaps the best we the people can hope for under Obamacare is that government will be generous with the sodium pentothal when our lives are deemed to no longer possess quality.
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