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Here's what you said, for your own reference. "I mean, after everything, that's just one last blow to the parents and to Terri's Catholic beliefs. As a Catholic, we can't be cremated." GG! Wrong then, about Catholic cremation, and wrong again about your own words.

It's so stupid, because next time around, it could be the parents who want the person to be allowed to die, and the spouse that won't let go. So what is the purpose of some goofy law giving the parents more say?

The point is that you tried to paint it as some sort of spitting on Catholic beliefs, when in fact it's nothing of the sort. The Schiavo plot is probably too small for a full casket: many cemetaries are like that since space is at a premium.

National media attention? No. But people in Florida have probably heard more statements from the Schindlers than they have from almost any other person in recent history. From the start, her parents solicited a wide range of media methods and foundations to spread their message...

Some more facts on the latest slander aimed at Michael Schiavo: For the last several years, if not since she the legal fight began, her husband and her parents had a gentleman's agreement that they would not be in the room at the same time. They hated each other, and figured that was easiest...

No. See was classic PVS. Her parents were delusional, and they found some doctors that would back them up, but most were quacks, and the ones that weren't were activists that couldn't back up their claims with scientific evidence or overcome evidence to the contrary.

Nonsense. A court of law, ruling on matters of fact, found that there was clear and convincing evidence that she would not want to have been turned into a meat puppet and prolonged indefinately for no medical reparative purpose. The appeals court, re-iterating that the standard should be as...

Only if you listen to lies made up in total ignorance of the actual facts of the case. Evidence, please? This accusation was made and investigated and thrown out of court WITH PREJEDUCE. The doctors Michael sued for malpractice had every reason to make his accusation so as to defend...

Uh, yeah, all those liberal judges. Except not. Almost all were Republican appointed judges. Greer was a Republican judge and also a Southern Baptist! Pryor is one of the most conservative judges in the country. And yet all ruled the way they did because it was in accordance with the law...

What you just make up phony beliefs now just to further attack the husband? This restriction was lifted in 1963, and in 1997, it was changed further so that liturgy could be given even after cremation. You don't even know anything about your own religion. She's being cremated so that she...

Concentration camp victims starved to death. She dehydrated. And they were conscious, functional human beings murdered by deliberate policies. Schiavo was taken off medical treatments that prolonged her life for no purpose against her wishes.

This is not the same thing as her feeling pain. Certainly pain signals can travel up towards the brain. They can trigger spinal-based reflexes. They can even trigger motor cortex responses. But the areas of the brain that FEEL pain, that turn it into a sensation that is _experienced_: those...

This is morally abhorrent. You seem to be treating whether the baby lives or dies as a matter of PUNISHING THE MOTHER OR NOT depending on what she did. No wonder feminists suspect that what's realy at stake in abortion isn't protecting life, but rather controlling and abusing women. If so...

Her humanity was robbed by her bulimia. Dude, are you really this brainwashed. Can't talk? She can't THINK. She doesn't have cogntive processes. Her cerebral cortex is FLATLINE EEG. All of these are reflexes, not conscious decisions or reactions. That is because for them, it is a...

Sure, they are a bright spot. But they are a lot less of a big deal in the long run than people think. Elections != working democracy. Elections are held all over the Middle East all the time, and the result is not any sort of democracy that we could be proud of. Iraqis should be proud that...

The first group of people are actual intelligent doctors. The second group are quacks and a bunch of deluded family members. The End. In PVS, your higher brain (seat of consciousness) is destroyed. However, your motor cortex and reflex brain is still intact. The result is that the person...

The Iraqi election? It's practically a non-event in the US, so, no. Terri Schiavo is the biggest political event in recent memory, because it made a lot of Republicans suddenly wake up and see what a bunch of complete lying nutjobs they'd got into bed with.

I wonder if it's sunk in with Kerb yet that he is wrong. If not, here's a lawyer explaining in depth the issue of why no one, not even Terri's parents, is making the argument that oral evidence is inadmissable hearsay. It's not. Even if it didn't fall clearly under several different...

He hasn't shown even a little backbone to the nuts in his party, just keeps reciting the tepid "we should err on the side of life" which is just an irrelevant dodge. People aren't going to be very impressed by that.

Just for reference, here is the Supreme Court case in which it was ruled that it is morally and legally acceptable, and not a violation of any constitutional right, to withhold hydration and nutrition from a PVS patient if there is "clear and convincing evidence" that the patient wished to...