Were you complaining about "mean-spirited" when the Schindlers threw all kinds of nasty allegations at Mr. Schiavo? Would you be inclined to care a whit what people thought if they accused you of abuse of your spouse?
Try reading the marker from a different perspective. Look at it from the point of a loving husband who went through a long ordeal and was finally able to see his wife to peace after many years. Unless you can see it that way, then of course it looks mean-spirited. But in that light, it's perfectly understandable...he wanted to commemorate the years he gave for her.
Thinking the same thing....Either he is one pathetic SOB or a truly loving husband who kept his promise....I have my thoughts on the matter....but weird none the less...
"Try reading the marker from a different perspective. Look at it from the point of a loving husband who went through a long ordeal and was finally able to see his wife to peace after many years. Unless you can see it that way, then of course it looks mean-spirited. But in that light, it's perfectly understandable...he wanted to commemorate the years he gave for her."
You know, you're actually quite delusional! Loving husband? The moment he won the medical lawsuit for $1.5M supposedly on Terri's behalf, he refused to pay for any further medical therapy or rehab for Terri. Instead Medicare paid for her room and negligible care permitted by Michael. He gave explicit instructions to withhold treatment for dental care, bed sores and infections. He ordered the lights to remain low and kept the room shaded from sunlight. Nurses provided affadavits in which Michael cursed Terri and would demand "Is that B!t@h dead yet?". Also he may have injected her with insulin when he was alone in her room. He had one mistress shortly after Terri's "collapse" - she stopped seeing him because of his violent temper. Then he took up with his current live-in mistress Jodi Centonze for the past ten years or so and had two children with her. Is this how your wife would define a "loving husband" in a perverted, abusive, unfaithful way?
Doesn't matter what the perspective. I don't care what he endured from her family, I don't care what he was accused of. We will never know if the allegations the parents made were true or not. Makes no difference. Having said "at peace" in 2005 was even fine. But, to say "I kept MY promise" made it completely about him, not Teri.
I may not even go so far as to say it is mean spirited, but rather completely self-involved. He is clearly obsessed with looking like the good guy. For you to say that he wanted to commemorate the years HE gave for HER, imo reinforces the notion that the whole ordeal was about him and not Teri at all.