MOURNING TERRI SCHIAVO

From April 1, 2005, till today, April 9, 2005, the home page of this portal site had been replaced by a mourning page now archived here. The first day there was no link to the home page from that mourning page. The second day I added one (but Google had already caught and cached the one without a link), and, as I discover only now, in my emotional turmoil, I may have made a mistake. It seems that I linked to a file called oldindex.php, instead of index.php (I changed it now), so that visitors were maybe led to a very old version of the home page, which happened to also show an obituary, but for my deceased friend and sponsor C. Neal Brady.

If this was so (it depends on which files were on the server at that moment; when I recently lost my data and in order to have my full website on my PC again, I had downloaded all files from the server and that particular file was with it; I do not know what exactly I had deleted or renamed in the meantime; if I forget or simply omit to make a backup of each slight variant of a page with its date before overwriting it, I cannot determine the exact date of the previous version later, as my FTP program has already automatically put the date of the latest transfer), I apologize for this disorder to my visitors. I will already have been punished by a downfall of traffic figures...

I would like to make a statement regarding my wording on the mourning page, as it may have, if not shocked, at least surprised a few of my readers. I was raised as a Roman Catholic (with some Jewish Orthodox, Masonic Deist, Atheist and other influences thrown in) and I have been a believer till the age of 18, I think, when I definitely turned the Vatican Church my back (my decision doesn't seem to have had much following, considering the brouhaha these days regarding that presumed Pontifex ~~ I can't see THAT many bridges! At least not to the really good, correct and important positions...). So I remembered. And I chose those words on purpose, as they seemed to me to be most apt at consoling Terri's parents and family, to find a way to their hearts.

In this context, I want to draw your kind attention to the following columns added to my site:

On Terri Schiavo by Jonathan David Morris
ON TERRI SCHIAVO: A RESPONSE TO JONATHAN DAVID MORRIS by Steven M. Warshawsky
I'm a Heartless Bastard by Jonathan David Morris

Several of the best links regarding the Schiavo case were previously offered on this site in the following blog posts:

http://www.butterbach.net/blogs/net/archives/00000201.htm
http://www.butterbach.net/blogs/net/archives/00000203.htm
and a column by Wendy McElroy on this site: Pro-Lifers Link Euthanasia to Abortion

I also have saved some more interesting links on the subject on my PC and I intend to add them later, so that you have a larger resource on one spot. As I also have corresponded with friends and authors on the case and expressed my own more private views in email, I will see if I can quote some of it on this same spot too.