PHOTOS: Another day of tormenting the Woodside Hospice patients

70 or so people came here to die dignified deaths. Their loved ones are trying to say goodbye in peace. And they have to be confronted with THIS disgraceful show yet another day:


(Everyone is trying to get in the act, bringing glasses of water to Teri.)


(Note: it is kind of pathetic seeing the "Jeb, please!" signs...now this crowd can see that they, too, were duped and used by the Bush clan.)




(OK the last one is from yesterday but I still can't get over that one.)

WTF is that dirty thing around that woman's neck?

LMAO

How come you're not showing this freak show live as it happens?

Are you afraid to show America what is REALLY going on outside the Hospice?

Isn't it? I'm surprised none of them are being interviewed and CNN or Faux doesn't have this covered either. I wonder how much they paid John Edward for his little show on there. :eyes:

They're there for the attention.

Even though they know it will have no effect on how it plays out. Unless, of course, they have some other plans ...

And by the way, I have the same opinion about people who appear to protect executions, even though I oppose Capital Punishment.

what these folks are so afraid of....is that should Terri die now a natural death, despite all of their prayers and showboating, and the meek intervention of both Bushes, that God just doesn't seem to be listening? i.e, God has left the building...

that must face this circus everyday. Hospice is a great organization and was a huge help to my family when my mother was terminally ill. we took care of her at home and they would send people in twice a day to help.

i am so f*cking disgusted with this crap.

Imagine going there to see your loved one and you hearing the words that you're a murder? God...how heartless!

You know, it's not hard enough to contend with the pain of letting a loved one go (sometimes not so peacefully) in a hospice, but to have to walk by this every day... Well, I'm not quite sure how I'd react if it were me, but I suspect profanity would be involved.

with dignity and class. these people have no compassion or respect for families in this situation. i also dont know how i would react either but i know my loved one would come first. for those families and the hospice workers not to be front and center speaks volumes for their character and priorities.

I'd probably have a freak out nervous break down in front of all those heartless jackasses.

for the families of other patients who want to visit their loved ones and have to contend with the loonies.x(

are so concerned about Terri Schiavo's life that the forgot to get one of their own.

You're right. What about their jobs? And these kids? Are they on spring break now? I guess so. Either that or homeschooled.

this in their pathetic, nothing little lives to make them feel alive and noticed. Sorry if that's seems harsh, but I am sick of these wackos.

of politics. They serve to weaken any cause they may have.

it would be a powerful demonstration.

T.H. Jesus is standing on his own!

ROFLMAO!

I understand the Jesus sybolism (though I find the comparison silly), but their motivation is so cleaar - to create a theocracy...tHAT'S why they have both together.

:wow:

Less than three days!

Our Lady of the Perpetual Winnebago interceded for us.

The top half of Ugly Skirt Woman isn't much better than the skirt.

I like your signature. Are you in Europe now?

I stole my sig line from a picture from one of those "we're not sorry" sites. As it happens, Bluebear posted that picture.

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fuck em

n/t

Thomas Bone died before his granddaughter Jennifer Johnson could get to him.



PINELLAS PARK - As 73-year-old Thomas Bone prepared to die from incurable cancer, he had one wish.

He did not want to die alone, his family said.
She had no time to change out of her pajamas, and no time to grab her wallet.

If Jennifer Johnson had not been at the hospice where Terri Schiavo lives, she could have reached her grandfather quickly.
snip........... She called out to a hospice employee who vouched for her. Then she had to go through a metal detector.

"The whole time I'm telling him, "My grandfather is dying right now, I have to go,"' Johnson said. The whole thing took three to four minutes, she said.

When Johnson reached her grandfather's room, which was two doors down from Schiavo's room, a nurse told her it was one minute too late.

"I was detained for a few minutes," Johnson said Sunday. "But they were the most important minutes for my grandfather and family.

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................ "I don't think any of us ever imagined how profoundly this unprecedented situation would affect all of us."
snip

Most visitors are being routed through one entrance in the main building where Terri Schiavo is staying, Bell said. "Once you cross that threshold, the other 71 (patients) are having their own very private and uniquely personal journeys play out much as they usually do," he said.


........."We are truly the epicenter of news, there's no question, and what will the story be if a have a breach or someone would get to Terri?"

Johnson, 24, said she wanted to share her story in the hope that police and protesters will make conditions more bearable for other family members visiting the hospice.

"Everyone there is in a state of tragedy. Everyone has a loved one who is dying," Johnson said. "It causes such a terrible, extra circumstance to an already terrible situation

snip

Until two weeks ago, Johnson said she had no trouble coming and going at the hospice.

snip

Suddenly, families needed to present IDs to see dying relatives. Their bags were searched, and they had to submit to handheld metal detectors. Johnson said families could not take loved ones outside to walk around anymore.

"We are going in and out to see our dying family members, and it's like we are going in and out of a prison," she said.

Police even stopped patients who rolled up to the hospice in wheelchairs with medical equipment, she said.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/22/Southpinellas/Pain_of_publicity_int.shtml

doing?




And what are they teaching their children?

I don't know what to say.

Good lord almighty.

Well, that one kid appears to be working on his Mary Katherine Gallagher impression.

Far out, man.

but the life-sized crucifix is freaking me out.

She's not like one of the Jews in Auchwitz. She's not Jesus on the cross. She's just a woman with part of her brain missing, not unlike many others who have been allowed to go peacefully. The only difference is she's in Florida, and that her parents won't let go. If not for them, this wouldn't even be getting the publicity it is now. Surely this happens often enough. What would make Terri's case special? Why are these people not butting their noses into all the cases where food and water are withheld. They act as if this is the first instance ever.

Thank God, actually, that they don't do this to everyone who is in a similar situation.

And what' with the cups of water. She can't swallow, people. And then someone on the radio said she wouldn't be allowed communion for the last rites since that would be giving her nourisment. The guy was trying to say she was being denied the right to practice her religion. Once again, SHE CAN'T SWALLOW people. Surely there is a way to give the last rites to someone near death who can't swallow. That suggestion was just bizarre.

I find it all quite strange and somewhat insensitive and self-righteous. And once again, I am a Christian. These end of life issues are not as clear cut as these people would have them be.

what we are in danger of becoming...time to get the fuck out of Dodge.

22.6% of uninsured Floridians

38.5% of children in Miami who live in Poverty (17.6% statewide)
http://www.voicesforworkingfamilies.org/states/florida/flstatestats.cfm

I'm so tired of their hypocrisy and showmanship. They should be disgusted with themselves

and fundamentalist drama queens. Seriously. Why aren't they concerned about other people who are dying, starving to death due to poverty or the thousands of innocent people we are slaughtering in Iraq??

Cuff me and stuff me! Hubba-hubba :evilgrin:

That cop can handcuff me and haul me off to be punished for my sins anytime.....as long as he does the punishing. :evilgrin:

Remember that Repo memo that said this issue would "energize the pro life base"?
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THEY WERE RIGHT!

to worship false idols?? That fake Jesus could be considered as one!

:silly:

My inner farker soo wants to p-shop a sign on the car that says "Bukakke auditions today". Unfortunatley, I do not have the skills to do so.

I stick my fingers under my arms, then pull them out and smell them like THIS!!!!

First thing to come to mind when I saw that pic.

Great movie too...

"I never want to see another fuckin' plastic cup of water as long as I live."

I am hot, it is damn hot and humid, but if I take that cup....

He also looks borderline annoyed and I cannot blame him, ONE BIT

. . . everyone of them are lily-white causcasians. Every single one.

Right-wing fundamentalism is about race as much as it's about the fetus.

in one bag here?