The Other Patients in Schiavo's Hospice

At this point, it would almost be a blessing for the other patients at the hospice where Terri Schiavo is located if she could be moved to a different facility.

Hospices are specifically designed to provide quiet and peace along with palliative care and support services for terminal patients in their families. All the nut cases parading in and out of Schiavo's room and protesting outside must be making the situation hellish for the other patients and their families.

While it would be sad to move Terri from a place where she's familiar, it's really time to consider others for a change.

This is especially in this situation where the parents are not only being allowed "another" change at the courts, they're being allowed to go back and forth between courts who've ruled again and again their case has no legal merit. I can't recall another case ever that has been refused by the US Supreme Court three separate times only to have Congress force them to consider it yet again.

And for all the talk about returning Terri to her parents' loving care, court records I've seen posted indicate the Schindlers have actually been missing for periods of time from Terri's room for years. Not because the husband forced them out; because they simply were not there. If the court records are to be believed, the Schindlers haven't paid for her care or assumed much of it. A worker at the hospice sometime back said that it was Michael Schiavo and his girlfriend who went out of their way to bring Terri special things to wear and to take these things home to launder them. You know, the same people villified in the press.

If they win this case, they won't be taking Terri home and they won't be there to provide her care. That doesn't quite fit my definition of compassionate care.

It's not that I don't feel for the Schindlers. But personally, I wonder if the cause and their perceived rights have made Terri the person long since take a back seat. This happens unfortunately and is probably most likely in a situation where so many competing agendas are the ones offering the Schindlers all this backup.