Triumph of the Swill

Ok, just after posting my last blog entry, I had the misfortune of reading the most bullshit article I've ever read. The article was titled "Terry Shiavo's Final Hours--An Eye witness Account." It was written by Fr. Frank Pavone. Pavone was with Shiavo during her starvation period and was there when she died. He is a member of the Pro-Life Religious Council.

In this article, Pavone basically states the normal by saying that Terry was "murdered" and her death was "horrible." Pavone doesn't mention that her life was also horrible, since she couldn't move, communicate, let alone think. He goes on to claim that she was fully responsive and full of life. Again, Pavone doesn't say anything about the fact that the autopsy on Shiavo revealed that the front of her brain was destroyed. Therefore, making her incapable of ever recovering or any other basic functioning.

Here's one quote by Pavone that was slandered in misunderstanding:

"But besides Bobby and his sister and Terri herself, you know who else was in the room with us? A police officer. The whole time. At least one. Sometimes two. Sometimes three armed police officers in the room. You know why they were in the room? They wanted to make sure that we didn't do anything that we weren't supposed to do, like give her communion or maybe a glass of water. In fact, Bobby, sitting on the other side of the bed, would occasionally stand up to lean over his sister. When he stood up and did that, the officer would change position. He would move around towards the foot of the bed so that he could have a direct line of sight on what we were doing." -Pavone

Oh my, how dare those police officers do their job and prevent you from possibly trying to keep Shiavo's horrible life from lasting any longer! I'm not saying Pavone was planning to do anything illegal, but it was the officers job to make sure that the court's ruling was carried out, and that no "Pro-life" assholes would try to stop it.

"As you may have also seen, those who killed Terri were quite angry that I said so. The night before she died, I said to the media that her estranged husband Michael, his attorney Mr. Felos, and Judge Greer were murderers." -Pavone

Murderers? Michael Shiavo, first off, cannot be considered a murderer in any way, shape or form. I'm sorry, Mr. Pavone, if Michael didn't want to keep his suffering, vegetable wife alive any longer, but he had no malicious intent, therefore, it's not murder.

Calling Felos or Greer murderers is just as ridiculous. Felos was an attorney. He got paid to work on the case. It's his job. Greer made the ruling because he knew that keeping Shiavo alive was selfish and immoral. Terry's family was completely selfish because they wanted to keep Shiavo around as their little pet.

"Our culture also promotes the idea that as long as we say we want to die, we have the right to do so. But we have a basic obligation to preserve our own life. A person who leaves clear instructions that they don’t want to be fed is breaking the moral law by requesting suicide." -Pavone

What Pavone is trying to say here is: If you are living with a horriblediseasee, stuck in a vegetive state, or any other terminal illness, wanting to die is bad. Pavone likes to think that no matter how horrible your life is, no matter how much pain you have, and no matter how much you hate for your family to have to deal with the tragedy, you should still put up with it, because that's what the sky fairy--er, God wants from you.

Pavone finds the time in his article to call Michael Shiavo and his camp immoral, but ignores the reality that he is the immoral one. He's already judged Shiavo and his group as immoral and murderers. Don't we have a part of the Bible that says "Thou shalt not judge, lest ye be judged?"

Another thing that Pavone said that was quite off the truth was this:

When her mom first introduced her to me, she stared at me intently. She focused her eyes. She would focus her eyes on whoever was talking to her. If somebody spoke to her from the other part of the room she would turn her head and her eyes towards the person who was talking to her.You know what some of the doctors have dared to say about this? "Oh, it's just reflex reactions. Unconscious reflex reactions." -Pavone

Pavone fails to mention that recent autopises have proved that the front part of Terry's brain was gone, and she was blind. Real smooth, Frank.

Pavone really needs to learn what he's talking about.