What kind of victory is it to keep the loving parents of a dying woman from her deathbed?
What brand of warped joy could possibly come from that?
What comfort, no matter how bitter the feud, could ever come from seeing the tears of parents?
What confidence can be taken in knowing in the heart that the death culture, as promoted by a lawyer who hears voices in his head, now takes a giant step forward?
What ease can we find in judges with more power than Congress?
What good can possibly come from a society that withholds from a brain-damaged woman food and water?
It was 9:03 a.m., Thursday, March 31, 2005 when Terry Schindler Schiavo slipped away–just two days after attorney George Felos told the world her death did not appear imminent to him.
In the end, it took 13 days for Terri to die.
according to Fr. Frank Pavone, approximately 10 minutes before Terri's death, husband Michael Schiavo ordered her brother and sister out of her room.
Blood relatives were permitted back into the room just minutes after Terri's death.
"Where is Michael?" was Fr. Pavone's first question. Michael, who used a side door into the hospice the last two weeks, was nowhere in sight.
In the human emotion surrounding the March 2005 deathwatch, many forgot that this was the second time Terri Schiavo was taken off her feeding tube.
The entire argument of the right-to-die, aCLU contingent was that Terri was unaware of her surroundings, bereft of feelings of any kind.
For a group who claimed that a persistent vegetative state kept Terri from knowing anything, they purged her room of any visible sign of her religion the first time they removed her feeding tube.
Terri's Catholic mother was forbidden to leave even the tiniest medal underneath her daughter's pillow.
Holy pictures, rosary beads and medals somehow verbatim to the dignity in dying side, were purged from Terri's room.
For all of their hype, the victory of Michael Schiavo and his death-is-beautiful attorney George Felos, is an empty victory of ashes.
In the end, their well-publicized by media mantra of dignity in dying came down to so many empty words.
There is no dignity in a brand of dying that leaves a disabled woman with no water and food.
and as certain as the sun will rise again in Florida, Schiavo, Felos and Company can't take anything away from Terri Schindler Schiavo now.
as alexander Solzhenitsyn once said: "When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again."
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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