Posted on 01/22/2006 11:35:40 AM PST by LouAvul
Most definitely, I have cared for bedridden people, family members. I've been bedridden myself, and I know what it's all about. Oh, and I made a mistake on my earlier post. I typed 1994, but I meant 2004. There may have been others, but it doesn't matter if there were or not. The one she had that I know about was very serious. At any rate, Michael did not give Terri the care she deserved, IMHO. You are entitled to your opinion, and it won't change mine at all.
FWIW, I don't wish anything ill to Michael and Jodi. I think they have their hands full enough.
Are you saying that Jay Wolfson, the guardian ad litem was lying in his report to the Court when he stated she failed swallow tests?
See my post 100
She was tested many years before, like in 1992 or so. If you recall, Jay Wolfson did recommend that she get updated swallowing tests. He was the GAL that was appointed around the time of the Terri's law dispute (late 2003). I think it was Judge Demers who ignored that recommendation.
I can see the Terry Schiavo nuts are still at it. The man has every right to get married. He has not been charged with a crime. Do you honestly think with all the publicity this case recieved that if evidence existed that he committed a crime that he would not have been charged?
I was just disputing the lie she was never swallow tested. Glad you agree she was.
Hey, there, we'll have no confusing the issue with facts!
"Keep trying to make yourself feel better about her death. Give yourself an award or something. Here, I'll give you a pat on the back: Terri's gone now. I'm sure you're smiling about that."
Buddy you don't know jack about me and how I feel about this case.
Just so I know, do you believe that everyone should be kept alive by whatever means no matter what treatment, what cost and what prognosis?
Agree, if I recall correctly he did not even allow her to have a visit from a dentist during the last years of her life.
In the minds of some Freepers, anyone who didn't believe Ms. Schiavo should be kept alive by whatever means, for however long is a death lover and partied the moment she died. It's insane, just like their twisted logic.
The Terri Shiavo nuts ARE still at it. I'm convinced that they really are in the minority ... and the public reaction to her passing proved it. Frighteningly, this minority wants to rule our lives though.
Insurance money? Spent on her care?
Wrong.
He spent 3/4 of it on the lawyer hired to get her killed. He spent THAT money lobbying to re-write FLorida's law to ALLOW him to kill her!
Of what was left, he spent little on her care, most on his life and support. Show me what was sent to HER CARE.
I know. It's sad. The one good thing to come out of the Schiavo case was that more people saw the need to express in writing their wishes regarding what should happen in the event they fell into PVS or a similar condition.
No it can't. Judge Greer's order:
"Statements which Terri Schiavo made which do support the relief sought by her surrogate (Petitioner/Guardian) include statements to him prompted by her grandmother being in intensive care that if she was ever a burden she would not want to live like that. Additionally, statements made to Michael Schiavo which were prompted by something on television regarding people on life support that she would not want [a] life like that also reflect her intention in this particular situation."Three different people. Three different occasions. She said it."Also the statements she made in the presence of Scott Schiavo at the funeral luncheon for his grandmother that "if I ever go like that just let me go. Don't leave me there. I don't want to be kept alive on a machine" and to Joan Schiavo following a television movie in which a man following an accident was in a coma to the effect that she wanted it stated in her will that she would want the tubes and everything taken out if that happened to her are likewise reflective of this intent."
"The court specifically finds that these statements are Terri Schiavo's oral declarations concerning her intention as to what she would want done under the present circumstances and the testimony regarding such oral declarations is reliable, is creditable and rises to the level of clear and convincing evidence to this court."
That is true. We did ours and our lawyer said that 100% of all the people who made their living wills stated NOT to keep them alive if in the condition Terri was in. And that's the point for everyone who says we don't know what she would have wanted. When was the last time you passed a room in a hospital, saw someone in Ms. Schiavo's condition, turned to your loved one and said, "Make sure that no matter what, I stay alive like that." It's against human nature. And you all know it. To keep someone alive for our benefit, as I believe Terri's parents wanted to do, is just selfish.
FWIW, I have drafted a medical power of attorney and living will, based on one offered by the local bar and medical associations. Anyone interested in not becoming a freak show - and in not having people who have no business trying to butt into their lives, like the unfortunate Mrs. Schiavo - is welcome to a copy via freep mail.
Thanks for offering that up to people...I'm out of here now...it's going to start getting ugly on this thread soon. Do yourself a favor .... leave and don't look back!!! LOL!
Congratulations to Michael and his new wife. I wish them the best and am sure this will give them back some of the happiness they have lost through the whole ugly twisted Schiavo case. May they, and their children, now live a normal, peaceful life, as they deserve.
Having read all through this thread, I see that nobody ever answered the question that I posed to Schiavo in an earlier thread. When did Terri tell him that she wouldn't want to live that way? Because in his lawsuit, where he received over a million dollars, he said that she would want to live and was awarded compensation. Did she speak to him again after he got the money? I think that most people, who have sympathy for Michael, looked at Terri and decided that THEY wouldn't want to live that way so it was OK for him to pull her feeding tube. This whole thing was NEVER about what Terri would have wanted. Her childhood friend testified that during the Karen Anne Quinlan story that Terri told her that only God should decide when someone dies. This friend's testimony was discounted because she and Terri were only in their mid-teens at the time. As a matter of fact, everyone who testified on Terri's behalf had their testimony discounted. A very sad episode in our nation. I hope that all disabled or otherwise compromised people have their wishes in writing. I would hate for it to happen to someone else that the plug was pulled and their own wishes had not been legally stated.
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