Listening to Schiavo's Guardian Ad Litem Mr. Wolfson

[Inland]

I want THAT guy to be my GAL if I'm incapacitated.

Clearly there was a stable, caring, clear thinking compassionate person looking after her.

[molly]

1. Michael's brother and sister-in-law are

the witnesses to Terri's wishes - yeah, OK.

[atreides1]

3. Everybody has an opinion

Judge Greer thought they were sincere, and ruled in accordance with Florida law, not in accordance with parental emotions and hopes, and religious fanaticism.

I'm sure you're inclined to believe what her parents and brother are trying to sell, but they are biased as well.

We who are not directly involved don't know, and while we can have our own opinions about it, none of those opinions count for spit in the big picture.

[BlueManDude]

2. I'm becoming certain that the feeding tube will be restored

and this case will go on for many years to come.

[Ilsa]

4. I'm beginning to think of Terri Schiavo the way I think of

"Kenny" on SouthPark. I don't know why. Maybe the whole "victimization" thingy.

[BlueManDude]

6. Hey, what's another 5 years of legal wrangling?

[Pallas180]

5. Did you hear him say : the parents told him even if she had left a living

will, they (the parents) would fight it.

So

It sounds like those may have been her wishes.

You do know that Terry Randall and the entire Christian Family Coaliton bullshitters are paying the millions of dollars of the parents' legal bills right?......wonder what else they are paying for the parents for them to keep this going.

Christ - fifteen years....do you know how her muscles are wasted?

[BlueManDude]

7. the parents have admitted they don't care what her wishes were.

the question of her wishes was the entire subject of her first trial and it was "clearly and convincingly" ruled that she wished to not "live" the way she is "living".

[blondeatlast]

8. I find her parents behavior so telling when one looks at how

Ms. Schiavo got into this state--bulimia.

Somehow I see them as all too connected and all too telling.

Bulimia is often linked to a control issue...

[BlueManDude]

9. I don't know about that but...

they are certainly being manipulated. The fact that anti-choice loon Randall Terry is "advising" them says it all. Just like say Paula Jones they will used by the RW then abandoned after they've served their purpose.

[UTUSN]

10. Links to WOLFSON and Parents-Wouldn't-Honor-Her-Wishes

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&ncid=2270&e=2&u=/krwashbureau/20050319/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_braindamagedwoman_guardian_wa

.... Wolfson was appointed by a Florida court in the fall of 2003 to be Schiavo's guardian ad litem, or guardian at law, to deduce Schiavo's best interests and represent neither her husband nor her parents but Terri Schiavo herself.

This makes Wolfson one of the very few people to have spent extended time with Schiavo and gauged her level of awareness without having a vested interest at stake.

In the end, after long hours at Schiavo's bedside and after poring over 30,000 pages of legal documents, Wolfson concluded that Schiavo was indeed in a permanent vegetative state. ....

But Schiavo never made eye contact. When Wolfson visited her when her parents were there, she never made eye contact with them either, he said. And for all of Wolfson's pleadings and coaxing, he never got what he most wanted: a sign. ....

Wolfson was dismayed to learn Friday that Barbara Weller, an attorney for the Schindlers, claimed that Schiavo tried to speak. "Terri does not speak," he said. "To claim otherwise reduces her to a fiction." ....



http://floridahealthinfo.hsc.usf.edu/TheresaSchiavoFina...

SCHIAVO's parents admit they would not honor her wishes:
From page 14 the 38 page report commissioned by Jeb Bush:

Testimony provided by members of the Schindler family included very personal statements about their desire and intention to ensure that Theresa remain alive . . . at any and all costs.

Nearly gruesome examples were given, eliciting agreement by family members that in the event Theresa should contract diabetes and subsequent gangrene in each of her limbs, they would agree to amputate each limb and would then, were she to be diagnosed with heart disease, perform open-heart surgery.

Within the testimony, as part of the hypothetical presented, Schindler family members stated that even if Theresa had told them of her intention to have artificial nutrition withdrawn, they would not do it. Throughout this painful and difficult trial, the family acknowledged that Theresa was in a diagnosed persistent vegetative state.

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