Mar 24 2005
Why not just put a rubber stamp on the bench?
Fla. Judge Won’t Hear Schiavo Arguments
By MITCH STACY, Associated Press WriterCLEARWATER, Fla. - A state judge refused Thursday to hear Gov. Jeb Bush’s arguments to take custody of Terri Schiavo, leaving the brain-damaged woman’s parents with only the slimmest hopes in their fight to keep her alive.
Bush’s request cited new allegations of neglect and challenges the diagnoses that Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state, but Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer wasn’t convinced.
Of course he wasn’t convinced. If Terri Schiavo sat up, played dominoes, drank a coke and called him an asshole, he’d still want proof that it wasn’t a reflex action. There’s gonna be a lot of blood on a lot of hands when this whole thing is over.
Source: AP
Choose Life
March 24th, 2005 at 3:02 pm
I can’t get over the fact that he won’t even hear the arguements. He won’t hear new evidence, he won’t look at new evidence. He won’t stand for any one questioning his decision.
Imagine the uproar if this were to happen to a convicted criminal on death row.
March 24th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
If Terri Schiavo sat up, played dominoes, drank a coke and called him an asshole, he’d still want proof that it wasn’t a reflex action.
And what are the odds that will ever come to be? The poor woman has been a vegetable for 15 years. All the poor bastard can do is eat the food fed to her through a tube, piss and shit herself in adult diapers, and stare the ceiling.
You call that a life? Compassion?
It’s fucking Frankensteinish the lengths some people will go to “choose life”. This isn’t “choosing life” - it’s supporting mad science and playing politics.
Were it me, I’d hope to God that somebody would have the courage to pull the plug after FIFTEEN years of LIVING HELL.
March 24th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
It isn’t you.
She never made her wishes clear.
Had she done so, I’d have no problem with pulling the plug.
March 24th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
I love the arguement “I wouldn’t want to live like that”. What a terrific arguement. I have two broken vertebra in my spine as well as a torn disk. When people hear I get sympathy along with “how do you live like that? How do you live with the pain?” I don’t want to live with it, but that doesn’t mean I want to die.
On the off chance that MAYBE Terri saw a television show spotlighting someone living in a pvs state, and on the off chance that MAYBE she said something along the lines of “wow, I wouldn’t want to live like that”, I don’t see how that translates to “if that happens to me, kill me”. No one wants to live like that. It’s not what a sane person asks for for Christmas. It certainly doesn’t mean that we also want to die.
March 24th, 2005 at 6:56 pm
No, Vinny, she did make it clear that’s what she wanted. To the husband and two other witnesses. Every court since the first one has reaffirmed that.
March 24th, 2005 at 7:14 pm
How come the husband and two other witnesses (the husband’s brother and sister-in-law) didn’t remember these wishes until AFTER the lawsuit awarded Terri over a million dollars? How come her family and closest friends dispute Terri’s wishes?
March 24th, 2005 at 7:48 pm
It took them seven years to remember that, dude. Also, it’s Michael’s family and they just happened to remember it at the same time. They all had this amazing memory loss and regained it all at one time.
But those three people were the only people
March 24th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
The asshole judge has all the evidence. That’s why he had all the records sealed. At this point he is the most powerful man in Florida having trapped Governor Bush.
Jeb should say “fuck this shit” and have the state police storm the hospice and move Terri out of state, to a real southern state, such as Georgia or Alabama where chances are, life is still respected. Florida isn’t a southern state.
March 24th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
Question….what is left for the Schindlers?
March 24th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
I agree with Gordons reasons. I understand that the wishes are not in writing, but I would hope that my husband would be heard if I were in her shoes. As much as you say there is no proof that she wished this, there is no proof that she didn’t. I love my parents and am very close to them, but I am closer to my husband.
March 24th, 2005 at 10:36 pm
There’s some stunning logic. Absent of proof that someone wants to live, we just off ‘em.
Great one.
March 24th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Pam, You might be lucky enough to be closer to your husband, but Terri’s old man sure didn’t live up to his marriage vows! I don’t think they were very close at all, he didn’t waste anytime finding another bed partner (several, in fact)In my husband making out his Living Will and Power of Attorney, I don’t want to be named the person to have to tell the doctor or whoever what his wishes are. We are appointing our attorney to do that for both of us if the time ever comes that we need to have that done. I still stand by my belief that he should just divorce Terri (or he should have as it might be too late by now) and have the divorcing judge grant custody to her mother and father. This should have been done way back when he had his first affair ( that is of the ones that everyone knows of ) I am betting he had something going way before Terri took “ill”. Life is so precious but Michael cares more of his own life than the woman he said the vows to. For better, for worse, in sickness and in health.