Category: Pro-Life

If you’re having trouble downloading the new audio of Terri Schiavo from last Friday, there’s a copy on my PC.
Update: According to Drudge, the family says the audio’s not recent, but from 2004. Meanwhile, Dom’s relaying a report that Terri made a more intelligible utterance at her lawyer’s urging.

I found the news disturbing. Fr. Rob Johansen had just gotten off the phone with Bob and Mary Schindler, who most of us know as the parents of Terri Schiavo. The culture of death can hardly wait. Come March 18th, the Florida woman must be executed! And she will not be comforted by the Holy Eucharist — known as Viaticum when shared with the dying — as she faces a slow and horrible death by starvation and dehydration.
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Last post of the afternoon: I can understand a judge deciding to let Terri Schiavo live. In our fallen world, I can understand a judge deciding that Terri’s husband can get the medical establishment to kill her. But what I can’t understand is why a judge would give permission to kill her in three weeks. If I understand the ruling correctly (and I haven’t read the text), the judge is conceding that Terri is medically dead already, so why wait three weeks? Not only is the decision wrong, it doesn’t even make logical sense.

I’m trying to think of some way to introduce this article, but words are failing me. Just read the first few paragraphs and you’ll see why.

Wife details family gathering with Thompson dead in chair
By Jeff Kass, © 2005, Rocky Mountain News
February 25, 2005
ASPEN — Hunter S. Thompson heard the ice clinking.
The literary champ was sitting in his command post kitchen chair, a piece of blank paper in his favorite typewriter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot through the mouth hours earlier.
But a small circle of family and friends gathered around with stories, as he wished, with glasses full of his favored elixir — Chivas Regal on ice.
“It was very loving. It was not a panic, or ugly, or freaky,” Thompson’s wife, Anita Thompson, said Thursday night in her first spoken comments since the icon’s death Sunday. “It was just like Hunter wanted. He was in control here.”
Anita Thompson also echoes the comments that have been made by Hunter Thompson’s son and daughter-in-law: That her husband’s suicide did not come from the bottom of the well, but was a gesture of strength and ultimate control made as his life was at a high-water mark….

I sincerely hope Thompson isn’t undergoing eternal torment, but how does one begin to unpack how sick these people are? God help them — send somebody quickly.

I am not the resident expert on the Terri Schiavo case (that would be Pete), but I had to comment on the following little nugget from this story:

Michael Schiavo says his wife had expressed wishes not to be kept alive artificially, although she left no written directive. He said he is determined to carry on in the case out of love for his wife.
“This case is about Terri Schiavo’s wishes,” Felos said. “It’s about her wishes not to be forced-fed, her wishes not to be kept alive artificially.”

Aww. Such a trooper — fighting an endless court battle to judicially kill his wife by starvation.
Somebody remind me: Michael stands to gain something when Terri dies, right? I mean, beyond the ability to marry his shack-up floozy who gave birth to their bastard children? Or does he give up the right to her malpractice settlement money?