TERRI SCHIAVO TO DIE IN ATTORNEY'S "DEATH FACTORY"? SUNCOAST HOSPICE
BOSS WAS GEORGE FELOS...


It reads like fiction, but it parallels the story of Michael Schiavo
(the Man), Terri Schiavo (his Wife), and George J. Felos (the
Lawyer/Board Member/Past Board Member of "The Hospice") - and unless
some brave soul intervenes, it will end with the murder of Terri
Schiavo.

Terri Schiavo, an incapacitated but warmly responsive young woman,
is in the care of "The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast" ("Hospice
House Woodside") at 300 East Bay Drive, Largo, Florida. But unknown
to her advocates, all of Terri's medical care has been influenced by
a Past Chairman of the Hospice's Board of Directors - George J.
Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, and self-described "right-to-
die" advocate.

Many of the Hospice nurses, volunteers, and doctors who are charged
with the care, feeding, and unbiased medical evaluation of Terri
Schiavo worked for George J. Felos, a man who has publically
proclaimed that Terri must die.

The death Felos has prescribed for Terri starts with a ban on all
but the most basic physical care - the once beautiful woman rots in
her "Hospice of the Florida Suncoast" bed; Terri's advocates claim
her teeth are unbrushed, her nails untrimmed, her infections
untreated. This was not always the case - even after her brain
injury, Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, kept her groomed
and pretty. Terri was even starting to speak again - words
like "yes" "no" and "stop that" - but that was before Michael
Schiavo hired George Felos to help his wife "die with dignity". Now,
Terri's parents have been safely removed so as to avoid "false
hope". All media and medical access is tightly controlled by Micheal
Schiavo and Felos; in response, Terri has at last physically and
mentally degenerated to the level where she may be exterminated by
polite society.

Terri's slow death will grind down to a brutal, final starvation,
executed at Felos' request on Jan 3, 2003. Upon Terri's death,
several hundred thousand dollars that were earmarked for Terri's
long-term care and therapy will finally be released to her husband
Michael Schiavo, his new lover and their baby, to his attorney
George Felos, and quite possibly in turn to the Hospice itself. It
is unknown if Felos would advocate quick death for hospice patients
who do not have large sums of money lubricating their exit from
life; evidently the Hospice has not been forthcoming with clients in
regard to George Felos' true role at the Hospice.

"The Hospice of The Florida Suncoast" has kept this information
largely out of the public eye, but an investigation of the Hospice's
annual reports reveals a new twist in the case of Terri Schiavo:
George J. Felos was the official but unseen hand of the Hospice -
and he advocates death for those in his care.

Neither George Felos nor "The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast" have
openly disclosed the facts of Terri Schiavo's case to Terri's many
advocates - that from February 13, 1997 until at least April 26,
2001, George J. Felos was listed as a member or recent member of the
Board of Directors for "The Hospice of The Florida Suncoast" on the
non-profit's annual reports.

Certainly one would hope that if the true role George Felos had been
revealed in court, Judge George Greer would have made a much
different ruling concerning Terri Schiavo's fate. Without knowledge
of this conflict of interest, the Sixth Circuit Judge would be
forgiven if he seemed to believe that such a noble institution as
hospice - caring compassionately for the dying - could be trusted to
make an unbiased report regarding Terri Schiavo's medical condition
and with her care. With the information regarding this conflict of
interest, the courts will be remiss to believe any evidence that
Felos OR his "Hospice of The Florida Suncoast" might proffer in
reference to Terri. Considering this new evidence, it is the opinion
of this writer that the courts of Florida would be complicit in
Felos' duplicity should they not review this ruling.

Conversely, if Felos' chairmanship at the Hospice was indeed known
to the courts during the trial, it would have been imperative that
the court make this information known to the opposing council, Terri
Schiavo's parents, and to the public. Suppression of information
regarding the Hospice and Felos' conflict of interest would destroy
the integrity of this court, considering that Judge Greer himself
was declared by the court to be Terri's guardian ad litem by
default. The guardian ad litem is required to act in the best
interest of Terri Schiavo - not in the best interests of Mike
Schiavo, the Schindlers, Attorney Felos or the Hospice. In the minds
of many, no honest court could defensibly argue that Terri's best
interests would be served by lawyers, individuals or entities who
stand to profit from her death.

This information regarding lack of disclosure of conflict of
interest by Felos and "The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast" should
warrant appeal of the Court's Nov. 22 ruling, and should spur a call
for further investigation into other cases of conflict of interest
concerning the Hospice and Felos. The court's Nov. 22 ruling is
based in part on medical information taken from Terri while she was
in the care of the Hospice - information which may have been tainted
by the lack of full disclosure regarding Past Chairman/Attorney
George Felos.

According to The Hospice Patients Alliance Website and the
Washington Post, ("Hospices Big Business, Thanks to Medicare;
Exploitation of some patients is alleged" 06/14/98) this type of
unethical activity is nothing new - it also may be illegal.

If "The Hospice of The Florida Suncoast" is to cast itself as an
ethical entity, it should rectify and resolve this conflict of
interest regarding it's Board of Directors and Past Chairman, George
Felos:

It is this writer's opinion that:

- The Board of Directors of "The Hospice of The Florida Suncoast"
cannot justify their actions, or the actions of past Chairman,
George Felos if The Hospice knowingly placed Terri Schiavo in the
care of Felos and his paid/volunteer subordinates without disclosing
his role at the Hospice to the court, the public, or the Terri
Schiavo's parents.

- The Board of Directors of "The Hospice of The Florida Suncoast"
cannot claim to be advocates for their clients if they are not fully
open regarding the past or present roles of George Felos with their
donors, the courts, or the clients they purport to serve.

- The Board of Directors of "The Hospice of The Florida Suncoast",
cannot state they are caretakers if Felos and the Hospice worked
together to hasten Terri Schiavo's death from the moment she was
clandestinely removed from her nursing home and brought to the
Hospice by Felos.


These new insights into the Hospice's inner workings raise questions
that must be answered.

- How many elderly or infirm persons have Felos and the Hospice
possibly exploited for monetary gain?
- How many other impaired but recovering persons may have been
brought into the Hospice's "care" without their explicit consent?
- How many other incapacitated or differently-abled people might
have suffered or will suffer the same fate as Terri Schiavo?
-Under Florida law, do these human beings qualify for the basic
guarantees of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or are
they only products to be mined by George Felos and "The Hospice of
The Florida Suncoast"?
-If Felos and the Hospice espouse that incapacitated people have no
rights other than those assigned to them by the Hospice and it's
agents, then is "The Hospice of The Florida Suncoast" nothing more
than a Death Factory?

It is the opinion of this writer that George Felos' "Hospice of The
Florida Suncoast" is not an uninterested third party in this case,
as they portray themselves to be. The Board of Directors hired
Michael Shiavo's lawyer as their Chairman, then obscured Felos' role
while bringing Terri under Hospice's care. "The Hospice of The
Florida Suncoast" should come clean and come forward with any
additional information they may hold regarding George Felos, Terri
Schiavo, or any other hospice patients who may have
been "represented" by Felos. The Hospice must also reveal any plans
that they and their past Chairman of the Board may have for Terri's
award money following her "facilitated" death.

For Michael Schiavo, George J. Felos and the Board of Directors
of "The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast", it seems that Terri
Schiavo's death cannot come soon enough - and unless the American
public can persuade the courts to rule otherwise, Terri will die
October 15, 2003.

Copyright November 24, 2002 - Becki Snow

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