Sunday, March 20, 2005

Kill Her, But Dooooon't Upset Her

A mentally disabled woman whose court-ordered starvation-execution began Friday attempted to contradict her estranged husband's claim that she wants to die hours before her feeding tube was disconnected, an eyewitness is claiming.

Barbara Weller, an attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, told reporters Friday afternoon that during her visit earlier in the day she told Ms. Schiavo:

"Terri, if you would just say, 'I want to live,' all of this will be over."
According to pro-life activist Randall Terry, who recounted the scene to radio host Sean Hannity, Schiavo tried desperately to repeat Weller's words.
"'I waaaaannt ...,' Schiavo allegedly said, in a prolonged yell that had police stationed nearby running into her hospice room.
"She just started yelling, 'I waaaannt, I waaaannt,'" Terry said, according to Weller's account.
At that point police ejected Weller, he said.
Ejected her for what? Trying to communicate to Terri that her scumbag husband, his grim reaper attorney, and a vampiric robed hack - the Three Horsemen of her own, personal Apocalypse - are intent upon torturing and murdering her? And the cops ran in why, exactly? Because Ms. Weller - one of the people trying to save Terri's life - was…what? A threat? How can you threaten a condemned person? And even if Ms. Weller had been a threat, how would that have been any worse than what the system is already doing? You could almost call that (God help me) a "mercy killing."
Or was it because Terri can't "die peacefully" if she's given any inkling of what's being done to her? If somebody told you that, wouldn't that drag you out of your Happy Place?
This thing is [BLEEP]ed up beyond belief.