PHOTOS: Saturday brings another day of 'peace' for dying hospice patients

As you can see, the "culture of life" crowd is providing yet another day of tranquility for the 80 dying patients at Woodside Hospice. The loved ones of those people must be truly grateful that they are able to say goodbye unmolested, in a dignified and comforting setting. :crazy:

. . . and charge admission.

What a freakshow.

but dudn't this cross some kind of line?

antichrist...if there was such a thing.

The Supremes appointed him Fuhrer in 2000.


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There are a lot really similar out there. As an agnostic, I'm very sceptical of most mythologies, so I don't put much credence in this. I was just trying to make a rhetorical point, and a feeble attempt at humor.




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Astrology, Nostradamus, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism = mythologies. Each just as credible as the other


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these "soldiers of Christ" or the media that covers them? :scared:

the signs saying murder and such. So far, the only ones that have been seeking to commit murder are some amoung them.

i hadn't even considered the other patients! obviously, no one else there has, either, i guess!

I wish their families would come out and give a few press conferences, saying how much the drumbeating, hawking, and bullhorns are impacting them. Maybe that might drive them from the temple (though I doubt it--they don't really care about anyone else who is dying, just their latest political poster child, poor thing).



Artist's depiction of the event, as I'd like to see it....!

ON EDIT: At least one newspaper has in fact covered the impact on the other patients at the hospice--wish the TV media would get on this: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/11176657.htm

At Woodside Hospice, dying patients come intending to spend their last days in tranquility, resting in beds carefully positioned for views of lush landscaping and gaily painted bird feeders.

They're getting a circus instead.

The dispute over Terri Schiavo, only one of at least 60 people under care here in this suburb north of St. Petersburg, has drawn a growing throng of satellite trucks as well as protesters who were hoping to block a Florida judge's order to remove the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube. Most quietly sing hymns, but on Friday at least one trucked in a seven-foot tall cross, complete with heavily bleeding Jesus figure, and others hold signs reading, ''Death House'' or ``Killing House.''

''It's a macabre sort of circus,'' said one longtime hospice volunteer who did not want to be identified because of threatening e-mails and letters that have targeted hospice employees and board members.

I can see the "Christian" protestors making their way to every hospice to ensure that "EVERYTHING" has been done to keep hospice patients alive as long as possible. Thanks, Jeb.

lol - that is true republican hypocrisy, isn't it?! good god.

what a shame.

Look at the location of the third nail. Them Romans were a mean and nasty lot, I tells ya. Awful lot of blood coming from there too, that Mary must have gotten him randy.

And welcome to DU!

...is in fact aimed at the sick freaks who are protesting what should be a peaceful, quiet, end-of-life event. Forgive them, indeed, because they are dumb as a box of rocks!

Freak show is a most apt description. These people are not normal. It's as if they're all trying to outdo one another in their grotesque and hideous displays.

"Look at me! Look at me! LOOK at me!"

It's enough to make you sick. Isn't it enough to make them stop?

Sorry, your link was faulty so I'm providing a better one. This guy & his kid are professional right-to-lifer protesters, known for causing disruptions at numerous abortion clinics. Probably paid for their services, too.

http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRAIN_DAMAGED_WOMAN_KIDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

OH. MY. GOD.

It isn't so much all of the morans disrupting (But when is Jebbie going to move all of THEM to a "free speech zone" 4 miles away and safely out of the public eye?) but the parents sending their minor kids up to the police line with water knowing damn well they'll be arrested?

I think every state in the union has a law prohibiting anyone (parent or otherwise) from using a minor in the commission of a crime. But these so-called "parents" seem to know that nothing will be done...kids gets cuffed, they beat the cops down to juvenile hall, sign 'em out and they're back on the line ready to do it again.

I think the parents ought to be arrested on the spot when they come to pick their kids up and charged with (at least) such crimes reckless endangerment of a minor and locked up without bail for a few days.

even more positive about being an agnostic. If anything these nuts along with * convince me daily of this.

...but her duct tape is about 3 inches too low.

then she's obviously severly dehydrated! Quick, jam a tube in her! I'll leave it up to the readers here as to *where* it might be appropriate.