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Both the protestors and the politicians who are trying to make political hay out of Terri Schiavo's life, non-life, and death should be ashamed of themselves.
"Right to life"? Caring about those who are dying? More like opportunistic assholes.
Terri Schiavo spent her last years in a hospice. Said hospice houses approximately 70 dying people at any give time. There is a lovely garden where patients can spend some time in the sun, enjoying a peaceful afternoon. Next door is an elementary school.
Also on that short dead-end street are several businesses, and some homes.
For the last few weeks, protestors have been outside chanting and blaring music; they've parked their cars to block the doorways of businesses on the street (I hope they were towed and fined); they forced the elementary school next door to cancel classes for a few days for fear children would be injured by the protestors, and when classes were held armed guards were required to help get children through the unruly crowds. Residents of homes along the street have been harrassed, and had property destroyed.
Due to the protestors repeated attempts to break into the hospice grounds, and all the noise they made, residents of the hospice have been unable to spend time in their garden for the past two weeks. Can't open their windows, for all the noise outside. Protestors have tried breaking into the hospice, disturbing the residents. They have harrassed family members of the patients every single day.
Then they bring their children- one man was on TV, so proud that he convinced his 10 year old son to carry a glass of water across the line- so proud that his son was arrested. (Interesting note, left out of most reports: said man happens to be a convicted sex offender.) More so-called "right to lifers", who bring their children- toddlers, grade-school age (who should BE in school)- and send them to stand in the middle of the street, blocking traffic. Send them across the line to be arrested "for mommy/daddy". Endangering the lives of their children- hey, all in the name of "life", right?
How much do they really CARE about the people who are there to die? Oh, right- THEY DON'T.
Seventy-odd people dying. Seventy-odd families hoping that their loved ones will be able to go peacefully, without pain.
Had ANYONE been such a complete asshole when my Grandma T (in MN) was at the hospice dying, I'd have gone out and doused them with a hose, or insisted they ALL be arrested for disturbing the peace. And that's before I got really pissed off!
Caring about "life", hell. Those people have just been there to get their faces on the news. They don't give a rat's ass about anyone's life.
Maybe now that the poor woman's body has finally died (years after the person Terri did), those "protestors" will pack up and leave. Maybe now, the residents of that street, the students at the school, and most importantly, the seventy-odd families who are going through one of the toughest times of their lives, can have some peace.
Blessings upon hospice workers everywhere, who have such an emotionally difficult job, and yet keep going day after day, helping families through complicated, painful times with grace and compassion. They are true angels on earth.
"Right to life"? Caring about those who are dying? More like opportunistic assholes.
Terri Schiavo spent her last years in a hospice. Said hospice houses approximately 70 dying people at any give time. There is a lovely garden where patients can spend some time in the sun, enjoying a peaceful afternoon. Next door is an elementary school.
Also on that short dead-end street are several businesses, and some homes.
For the last few weeks, protestors have been outside chanting and blaring music; they've parked their cars to block the doorways of businesses on the street (I hope they were towed and fined); they forced the elementary school next door to cancel classes for a few days for fear children would be injured by the protestors, and when classes were held armed guards were required to help get children through the unruly crowds. Residents of homes along the street have been harrassed, and had property destroyed.
Due to the protestors repeated attempts to break into the hospice grounds, and all the noise they made, residents of the hospice have been unable to spend time in their garden for the past two weeks. Can't open their windows, for all the noise outside. Protestors have tried breaking into the hospice, disturbing the residents. They have harrassed family members of the patients every single day.
Then they bring their children- one man was on TV, so proud that he convinced his 10 year old son to carry a glass of water across the line- so proud that his son was arrested. (Interesting note, left out of most reports: said man happens to be a convicted sex offender.) More so-called "right to lifers", who bring their children- toddlers, grade-school age (who should BE in school)- and send them to stand in the middle of the street, blocking traffic. Send them across the line to be arrested "for mommy/daddy". Endangering the lives of their children- hey, all in the name of "life", right?
How much do they really CARE about the people who are there to die? Oh, right- THEY DON'T.
Seventy-odd people dying. Seventy-odd families hoping that their loved ones will be able to go peacefully, without pain.
Had ANYONE been such a complete asshole when my Grandma T (in MN) was at the hospice dying, I'd have gone out and doused them with a hose, or insisted they ALL be arrested for disturbing the peace. And that's before I got really pissed off!
Caring about "life", hell. Those people have just been there to get their faces on the news. They don't give a rat's ass about anyone's life.
Maybe now that the poor woman's body has finally died (years after the person Terri did), those "protestors" will pack up and leave. Maybe now, the residents of that street, the students at the school, and most importantly, the seventy-odd families who are going through one of the toughest times of their lives, can have some peace.
Blessings upon hospice workers everywhere, who have such an emotionally difficult job, and yet keep going day after day, helping families through complicated, painful times with grace and compassion. They are true angels on earth.
