After Defeats, Schiavo Parents Tell Supporters to Go Home

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (Reuters) - Terri Schiavo’s parents suffered more court defeats on Saturday, leaving them with dwindling hopes as their brain-damaged daughter passed her eighth day without food and edged toward death.

Bob and Mary Schindler, both practicing Catholics, urged dozens of supporters gathered outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo is being cared for to go home for Easter.

“The family would request that everyone go home, be with your children, hold them close and share every moment you have with them,” said Brother Paul O’Donnell, a Franciscan monk who is a spiritual adviser to the Schindlers.

It was not clear if the Schindlers had finally abandoned all legal avenues in their fight to restart their 41-year-old daughter’s feeding, a cause that embroiled the Florida legislature, the U.S. Congress and President George W. Bush.

But their message to end the vigil outside the hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, came after Circuit Judge George Greer, who has presided over their seven-year legal dispute with Schiavo’s husband and guardian, Michael, rejected a petition that alleged Terri had tried to say that she wanted to live.

These are seriously good people which obviously explains why they’re being tortured like this day after day.

Hug your kids. You never know how many chances to do it you’ll have.

Source: Reuters via Netscape.com

Choose life.