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Black Comedy, Act II

Unbelievable! The black comedy of Terri Schiavo continues. Who the hell is running Florida:

Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted -- but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge's order, The Herald has learned.

Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, on Thursday that they were on the way to take her to a hospital to resume her feeding.

For a brief period, local police, who have officers at the hospice to keep protesters out, prepared for what sources called "a showdown."

In the end, the squad from the FDLE and the Department of Children & Families backed down, apparently concerned about confronting local police outside the hospice.

"We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in," said a source with the local police.

"The FDLE called to say they were en route to the scene," said an official with the city police who requested anonymity. "When the sheriff's department and our department told them they could not enforce their order, they backed off."

So let me get this straight: State Troopers and a State agency (Department of Children & Families) were directed by Jeb Bush to sweep in and literally kidnap Terri Schiavo in direct violation of a judge's order? And they were only stopped by local police who apparently know more about the law then Jeb Bush, State Troopers, and Department of Children & Families?

Save me Elian!

No wonder Shannon left a cryptic note on my last Schiavo entry using pathos, and only pathos, as her argument. I'm glad that the state of Florida has given us Elian, Bush v Gore, and now this.

This doesn't even count the guy who was arrested for offering a $250,000 reward for killing Michael Schiavo! Come on people! Even if Michael wanted Terri to be alive, multiple courts have found that HER WISHES were to not stay in a permanent vegetive state (which she is in now). Her choice - not anyone's else. Even her family agrees that she is in a permanent vegetive state:

Despite the row over money, Schiavo and the Schindlers agreed on one major point in the 2000 testimony: the extent of Terri's brain damage, according to additional court documents cited by The Miami Herald. In the documents, Pamela Campbell, then the Schindlers' lawyer, told the court that "we do not doubt that she's in a persistent vegetative state." Campbell could not be reached to confirm the statement.

Look people: Terri Schiavo's soul departed her body 15 years ago - just look at the cat scan What remains is a vessel which needs to rest. Please, let her (and us) rest.

Comments

Jw says:

Out of all this, what I've gleaned is that death makes people into hypocrites. People who preach about the rewards that await you when your corporeal life is at an end cower at the thought of actually dying or confronting death. People who venemously attack doctors, medicine, and advancing the state of health suddenly BEG to have someone (or themselves) kept alive through "artificial" means.

Boy, that sure makes a lot of sense.

I mused on my site as to why people fear death so much. I've also though about how the mythical, historical, and contemporary thoughts on the rewards of suffering go against every element of this case and every other case where someone demands that a body cling to a heartbeat. We've built a society based on a religion (mostly) that teaches that suffering is the key to the kindom of heaven- we (supposedly) worship a got whole human incarnate son experienced ultimate and fatal suffering. We respect people like Ghandi and MLKJr who both suffered and faced suffering bravely for a cause.

So what, just having most of your brain destroyed isn't suffering enough for God? Do we need to decide that someone spend 15 years as a body in a bed so that... what? She can suffer? Others can suffer as a result of it? What's the real point of it all?

We don't understand true suffering in this country. We marginalize suffering through our lifestyle, and we dilute the notion of struggle by making EVERYTHING a struggle. Our medial talks about every little thing in life as if it is monumental battle, and that everyone is a hero. We don't know what those words truly mean.

Posted by: Jw at March 26, 2005 11:26 AM #

Dad says:

The latest issue this AM was the family wanting a full Christian burial and her husband wanting her cremated. Details and film at 11:00.
Your right gk, she needs to be allowed to rest.