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In response to my post about Florence Wendland’s passing, a visitor wrote the following:
While reading about this case I would say that if that were my husband no one would stand in the way of letting me do what I felt was best. Your words over the tears in regards to this case and your [...]
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A shot of Florence and I immediately following the memorial service for her
son, Robert Wendland, in July 2001.
That’s what I called my client, Florence Wendland, who died last Friday at the age of 83.After all, we spent six years fighting together to prevent her cherished son, Robert, from being dehydrated. And she came to [...]
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The following is from the North Country Gazette, February 13, 2006.
by Pamela F. Hennessy
On April 30 and May 1, 2006, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics will be hosting their 10th annual symposium. Their case study for this year’s gathering has been titled “The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why is it so [...]
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Ronald Cranford, M.D.
Remember the name if you haven’t previously heard it. My money says you’ll hear it again.
If you have heard of him, it’s probably because you’ve either seen him on television pontificating in recent days about Terri Schiavo’s diagnosis and prognosis, or you’ve read about him in one of the thousands of news articles [...]
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Dr. Jay Wolfson, who served for a brief time in late 2003 as Terris Schiavo’s court-appointed legal guardian, was interviewed this week on MSNBC. Dr. Wolfson believes that the evidence adduced at trial about Terri’s wishes was sufficient to support pulling her feeding tube.
Dr. Wolfson got it almost right. But not quite. [...]
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Today it was my extreme pleasure to be reunited with my client, Florence Wendland, as we sat down together in her Stockton living room to be interviewed by KGO-TV Channel 7 in San Francisco. I hadn’t seen Florence, whom I call, simply, “Mom,” for awhile and I am happy to report that she looks and [...]
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“Uncle.”
People have been asking me since the conclusion of Conservatorship of Wendland in August 2001 if I plan to write a book about my experiences — and encouraging me to do so. Until now, I have resisted those suggestions for many, many reasons.
But the events of the past few weeks involving Terri Shiavo and her [...]
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