George Felos
George J. Felos is a “right-to-die” attorney in Florida and an ardent supporter of the euthanasia movement who helped Michael Schiavo win a 15 year court battle to end Terri Schiavo’s life. He is the author of a New Age book where he claims to have the ability to “soul speak” to patients who are dying. Felos has often been compared to Jack Kevorkian due to his obsession with death and euthanasia.
Felos created the seminar Meditation for Lawyers and organized seminars in the Tampa Bay area on “right-to-die” issues. Felos was a founding member of the National Legal Advisors Committee on Choice in Dying, and served as Board Chair of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.
He resigned from the Hospice board in 2002 when the the public learned that he moved Terri Schiavo from a nursing home to Woodside Hospice in 2000 while acting as Michael Schiavo’s attorney. Terri was not terminally ill, which is a requirement to be admitted to hospice.
Since Terri Schiavo’s death in March 2005, Felos has not taken on new cases. According to the Pinellas County Public Records, he hasn’t worked on any new cases in over two years.
Felos is currently listed with Roth Talent Agency as a speaker with the main topic on euthanasia.
Felos and Death
Felos is well known in the media for his bizarre fascination with death. He spent much time with dying patients at hospices in Florida and at their homes as a hospice volunteer.
Felos closely monitored Terri’s death for 13 days at Woodside Hospice in March 2005 by spending an extraordinary amount of time at her bedside, which is unusual for an attorney. He gave details of her progress each day to the media. During one of his press conferences the week of Terri’s death, he reported, “I saw no evidence of any bodily discomfort whatsoever. She was peaceful; she was calm. The primary difference was that Terri’s eyes looked more sunken than the last time I saw her, and her breathing was a little on the rapid side…she is resting comfortably. Her lips are not chapped, they’re not bleeding. Her skin’s not peeling. Frankly when I saw her…she looked beautiful. In all the years I’ve seen Mrs. Schiavo, I’ve never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her.”
Felos’s beautiful death statements drew heavy criticism from the media, such as the commentary by Fox News reporter Michelle Malkin.
The day of Terri’s death, Felos described her appearance to the media, “She [Terri] went through intermittent periods of rapid breathing…she would go into periods of labored breathing. Progressively over the period of time we were there [Felos, Bushnell, & Schiavo], you can see evidence of mottling on her extremities, on her hands, on her legs, that means that the heart just could not pump blood to the extremities and the mottling were red spots; her limbs became progressively colder, and as time went on, it was evident that Terri was going through the final stages of her death process.”
Watch this video of Felos describing Terri’s death in graphic detail the day she died, March 31, 2005 (in Real Media format).
Felos claimed Terri’s case was a “right-to-die” case; however, her case was never an end-of-life situation. She was not dying, she was not terminally ill, her brain injury was not life threatening. She received food and water via a feeding tube. Terri was disabled due to her collapse in 1990 – the causes of which are still unknown.
Marriages
George Felos was married to Kim Felos and Constance d’Angelis. Both marriages ended in bitter divorces. Felos gave explicit details in his book about his divorce from his first wife, Kim, in 1991, “I was on fire, fueled by thoughts of bludgeoning and tearing her apart.” He wrote that the divorce process resulted in dreams “of being tormented in some inferno.” While meditating one night, Felos envisioned himself lying on the floor with his throat cut and blood gushing from his carotid artery (Litigation, pg 27-28). He describes many more disturbing images in his book which are too numerous to list on this page.
Felos was married to his second wife, Constance d’Angelis for approximately five years. They practiced law together in Dunedin, Florida and worked on the Schiavo case. She credits herself for convincing Judge George Greer that Terri Schiavo was allegedly unconscious, which later was proven to be false by medical doctors. The distress she experienced during the Schiavo case resulted in her leaving law altogether and her marriage. Her website explains, “During the course of the [Schiavo] trial, Constance became more and more distraught over the fighting and adversity that seduced the world into angrily taking sides. The distress that she experienced during this time caused Constance to respond by closing her law practice, leaving her law partner/husband [George Felos], and eventually spending a substantial amount of time in the mountains of Colorado.”
Both Felos and Constance anticipated making money from the Schiavo case. Part of their divorce settlement involved potential earnings from books or videos relating to Terri Schiavo. The settlement, dated 01/25/2001, stated, “each party shall have sole interest in their respective other creative works including books, tapes, CD’s, and other copyrightable materials except creative works associated with the ‘Schiavo’ matter on which the parties agree to collaborate.”
Constance currently lives in Colorado where she facilitates workshops on Biosome Vibrational Music, meditation, and inner healing. She’s also a massage therapist, Reiki Master, and workshop leader for seminars entitled, “Why Am I in Conflict” and ” Lessons from my dog about Peace.” She is the author of How to File a Lawsuit with Love and the founder of LovingLawsuits.com.
His Book
Felos’s book includes chapters regarding his practices in law such as “Bargaining for a Contingency Fee,” “Barbecuing the Government’s Expert,” and “Bringing to Court a Show-Worthy Production.” He offers advice on how to bury important evidence among mountains of paper, “Bury the smoking gun in a mountain of information. You strategically place your client’s incriminating internal memo among thousands and thousands of pages of useless but similar looking data. A less-than-diligent opposing counsel may not discover the needle in the haystack. As to losing your legal license, you’ve left no paper trail and deny knowledge of your client’s efforts.” (Litigation as Spiritual Practice, pg 80)
He also wrote of his ability to control an airplane with his thoughts. During a flight he was on, a “voice” told him that he was more powerful than he realized when the plane had suddenly lost altitude, suggesting that he was soley responsible for the plane’s descent. (Litigation, pg 182). His book is heavily quoted in this report.
Yoga
Felos is an avid practitioner of yoga and eastern meditation. During a meditation session, Felos chants the mantra, “I am that I am. I am that I am.” He admitted to the St. Petersburg Times that he attended law school “because I couldn’t think of anything else to do at the time.” He suggested that he would rather spend time practicing yoga and meditating than fighting cases in a courtroom. He credits yoga for helping him view the death process as a spiritual awakening.
