Morphine for Terri

By John-Thor Dahlburg
LA TIMES

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A spokesman for Terri Schiavo's parents said Sunday that their court battle to keep her alive was over, and as their daughter began her 10th day without food or water after her feeding tube was removed by judicial order, a family lawyer said she was past the "point of no return."

"Terri is declining rapidly," lawyer David C. Gibbs III said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "We believe she has at this point passed where physically she would be able to recover. They've begun giving her morphine drip for the pain. At this point, we would say Terri has passed the point of no return."

Gibbs said he was done in his protracted legal efforts on behalf of Bob and Mary Schindler, said Randall Terry, a spokesman for the parents, although Terry disputed the lawyer's opinion that Schiavo's medical condition was dire.

Gibbs could not be reached for comment, but was quoted in Sunday's St. Petersburg Times as saying that in terms of the parents' attempts in the courts to prevent their daughter's death, "it appears that time has finally run out."
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A question for Michael Schiavo, George Felos, Judge "Grim Reaper" Greer, Judge Whittemore, numerous doctors, and those in the MSM who have bought and sold the story that Terri's starvation death sentence is peaceful, painless, and beautiful:

Why is Terri receiving morphine?

Why would a drug for pain be necessary when SO many have claimed she wouldn't be in pain during this process?

Why administer a drug to kill the pain of someone SO many have characterized as being "gone," as being "already dead?"

Does this mean death by starvation is not as naturally "euphoric" as this band of pro-death proponents profess it to be?

YES.