Schiavo Family Asks Protesters to Go Home

have they finally seen the light? no pun intended:

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - With their hopes of a miracle fading and other options exhausted, Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings appeared quietly resigned Sunday and asked protesters to spend Easter with their families as the severely brain-damaged woman spent a ninth day without food and water.


Those outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is being cared for were not as calm, with the first of what would be four morning arrests coming as ministers attempted to bring Schiavo Easter communion. About a half-dozen people in wheelchairs later got out of them and lay in the driveway, shouting "We're not dead yet!"

Police protecting the hospice were loudly heckled, prompting Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, to come out and ask the protesters to tone down their behavior.

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They have fed this circus and other families have paid the price for their pompus actions.

Cry me a fucking river.

...to have some last moments with her grandfater in the hospice the other day. This new unselfishness of the Schiavo family is too little too late.

and I have no idea why it didn't do it for them. The spectacle of that bloody giant Jesus on a cross has NO PLACE anywhere near a hospice, I don't care what people believe or don't believe. A cross in the room or a rosary in the hand are comfort. A bloody Jesus outside the window is not.

Yes, he should have asked people to go to the nearest church to assemble and pray. He should have asked them to go anywhere but the hospice.

:mad:

My wife and I were wondering how all the other patients in the hospice feel in regards to the three ring circus outside their windows.

And their loved ones, the people that want to visit their grandfather or parent with cancer in the last days of their lives, how do they even get past that mess in the front yard?

Certainly parking in the parking lot is out of the question. I guess you need to park at the WalMart and take the shuttle in.

I wonder what the hospice is doing to accommodate the visitors of the other patients?

Good post, thanks for mentioning it, eleny.

Peace

go on as long as possible. I am sure they want a crowd out there when Terri finally is at peace...so they can go out and make a dramatic announcement, and rile up the crowd to a riot.

Yep, he sure could have done something. I'd say any chances of him being fairly elected to dog catcher are about crisped. Rigging machines is the only way he'll ever hold office again. Ignoring the peace and dignity of the other hospice patients seals his fate.

You opened Pandora's Box.

In fact, they've unleashed the nuttiest of the fruitcakes on that hospice.
These nutbars have a mission from G*d... they wouldn't go home if they were on fire.

Do these "protesters" even understand what a hospice is? Do they realize the amount of trauma they've contributed to other families whose loved ones are receiving end-of-life care there?

If they're so concerned about the dying, why don't they 1) take a reality pill and accept that they're going to die one day themselves, just like the rest of us mortals; and 2) go volunteer at a hospice and really help families and dying patients? Not as melodramatic, I suppose, as making fools-for-Christ out of themselves and they don't end up on TV by being decent, I guess.

Disgusting.


PS: Hi, Catwoman! :hi:

:hi:

:loveya:

Finally, some common sense is being displayed. It's a miracle after all.

coming from people who caused the protesters to be there in the first place.

the other people, they ask for quiet NOW!?!?

and people who only watch TV will believe them.

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About three dozen protesters stayed at the hospice Sunday after the Schindlers asked them to spend Easter Sunday with their families. Bob Schindler told reporters the protesters were welcome back on Monday.

But many protesters ignored the call to stay away for the holiday.
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Well, so much for that...