Fight over woman's feeding tube leaves husband's life in limbo (Terri Schiavo)

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Nov. 1, 2003 | Abby Goodnough , NYT

[FairOpinion]

It's obvious it was always only about money for Terri's husband.

[A-teamMom]

Why can't the author of this piece find out how much rehabilitation Terri has had? I'm sure she would be surprised to find it is none. How about the truth? Terri's parents have relinquished any claim to money. They only want Michael not to seek Terri's death.

[Left_Coast_Conservative]

Sounds like they are trying to make "poor" Michael the victim instead of Terri.

[diotima]

Schiavo's belief that his wife would recover had evaporated by 1997, his supporters say, when he lost his mother to cancer. But the other side points out that as early as 1993, soon after he won the malpractice money, Michael Schiavo did not want to treat an infection his wife had developed and that he had stopped her rehabilitation even earlier.

Curious.

[demkicker]

Shame on Abby Goodnough. Here's yet another example of liberal media championing the possible second attempt at murder of his wife by Michael Shiavo. Abby obviously can't be bothered with the documented facts of this case, but would rather paint Michael as the victim.

Excuse me, while I go puke.

[netmilsmom]

Geez, would everyone please leave this poor man alone. All he wants to do is get on with his life. What's a little strangulation and starvation for your mate? When they took those vows, "til death do us part" Terri never said she did not love him enough to die for his convenience!!! You know, she may even ENJOY the dehydration death! /sarcasm off/

God help us all.

[isthisnickcool]

I saw this guy on Larry King. I could see why he does not speak much publically. He comes across as a smarmy, egotistical little snot. I think he had something to do with what happened to this woman.

[mtbopfuyn]

Ahh, this tragedy happened to widdle Mikey. Tissue, please.

[Cicero]

He is a nurse who works the graveyard shift

Yes, I know what this means, but in context it gave me a chill, because it calls to mind that the Culture of Death is inextricably combined with the practice (or the distortion and malpractice) of medicine.

Just as in Hitler's Germany, the murder of the handicapped and the innocent starts among the doctors.

[pgkdan]

"My brother is a normal guy who this tragedy happened to," said Brian Schiavo,

Pity poor Michael. This terrible tragedy happened to HIM. What a creep!!!

[FITZ]

It's obvious it was always only about money for Terri's husband.

What happened with the lawsuit money? It's not like she's hooked up to any expensive machines. He should be given a divorce freed of any financial obligations except what he should pay back to her from the lawsuit money ----- I don't think he spent all that money on her care.

[Let's Roll]

If he doesn't like limbo, all he has to do is divorce her.

[Hildy]

Why can't any of you at least SEE another side. YES, the tragedy happened to him too. You would be more credible if you offered up arguments that weren't 100% emotion driven.

[FITZ]

Michael Schiavo was a penny pincher who kept track of the mileage on his wife's car and yelled at her for spending money on haircuts, they said.

It sounds like whatever life Terri did have with him was quite miserable. She couldn't even have haircuts?

[Uncle George]

FOR BETTER or for WORST, For RICHER or for POORER, IN SICKNESS and in HEALTH !!!!!!!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Sounds like they are trying to make "poor" Michael the victim instead of Terri. - yea my heart bleeds for the lowlife scumsucking SOB.

[stylin_geek]

We might be tempted to see another side if there was not money involved, and Michael had not sworn, on the stand, during the trial, he would spend his life taking care of his wife. Plus, isn't it a little creepy he is with another woman, has a child, while his wife is in a persistent vegetative state?

[Ogmios]

Ping for Terri

[Hildy]

Things like this that are said years later are truly not reliable. You can look at it another way: They were just married, living in HER parents condo. Maybe he was anxious to save money so they could be independent, a trait most freepers would admire. Plus, sometimes women's haircuts do cost alot more money than husbands could ever imagine. When I first told my husband how much my salon bill was he FLIPPED! Anyway, being cheap and being a murderer are two different things.

[MHGinTN]

NIce try, Hildy, but no cigar soup for you!... You would be more credible if you offered up arguments that weren't 100% emotion driven.Hildy Of the $750,000 placed in trust for Terri's rehabilitation therapy and maintenance, how much has her 'loving husband' spent on rehabilitation therapy for Terri? And how much has his freindly judge, Greer, authorized to be paid to the death watch atty, Felos? And how many children has Michael Schiavo sired with other women while still married to Terri? And ... oh, never mind. Your heart is so dead, nothing will penetrate the darkness.