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Terri Schiavo's Brother: Misinformation About Her Euthanasia Death Remains
Life News ^
| 4/10/08
| Steven Ertelt
Posted on 04/10/2008 4:44:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
Princeton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler has been on a speaking tour this week that's taking him to colleges and universities across the country. Schindler was at Princeton University on Tuesday and he told students there that misconceptions still exist about his sister's euthanasia death.
Terri died in March 2005 after her former husband won a court order to take her life despite requests from the Schindler family to provide her with medical and rehabilitative care.
Though more than three years have passed since the Schindler family's lost their years-long legal battle to save her life, Schindler says the public still wrongly believes some of the misnomers that appeared in the media.
Though Terri was not on artificial respiration and not in a persistent vegetative state, Schindler told the students many Americans still think that was the case and that Terri had no interaction with his family and that she had some sort of terminal illness.
Though much confusion still exists about Terris condition, Terri was not terminal or dying, and her brain injury was not going to cause her to die, Schindler said, according to a Daily Princeton report.
He said Michael Schiavo, who is now remarried to the woman he dated during the debate over Terri's life, also made up his mind about Terri's condition without basing his opinion on the facts.
Theres no doubt in my mind that Michael [Schiavo] fabricated the [death] wishes and that his brother and sister did as well and that they perjured themselves in front of the judges, the newspaper said Schindler said.
Schindler told the students he's worried about the long-lasting effects of the debate surrounding his sister and that more Americans will see disabled people like Terri as a "non-person."
There is no such thing as a person who is a non-person. There is no one so disabled that they have lost their value or dignity, Schindler said. He said such a view would be akin to walk[ing] down the same path that led to the Nuremberg trials.
Once you achieve emotional distance from people who are different from you, it is easy to look the other way while they are being killed, he added.
Ultimately, according to the Princeton newspaper, Schindler said Americans need to stand up and fight for the disabled, terminally ill and others who are in jeopardy of becoming the next victims of euthanasia.
We need to fight today to protect those among us who need our care, Schindler said. Its our dream in the future that legal bigotry against the disabled will be as taboo as insulting someones ethnicity."
Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; moralabsolutes; prolife; terrischiavo
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Once you achieve emotional distance from people who are different from you, it is easy to look the other way while they are being killed, he added. And this is EXACTLY what the culture of death is trying to achieve.
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posted on
04/10/2008 4:44:19 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; narses; 8mmMauser
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posted on
04/10/2008 4:44:49 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: BykrBayb; Lesforlife; floriduh voter; bjs1779
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posted on
04/10/2008 4:45:26 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: 230FMJ; 49th; 50mm; 69ConvertibleFirebird; Aleighanne; Alexander Rubin; An American In Dairyland; ..
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posted on
04/10/2008 4:46:09 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
I remember debating a far left liberal over this. and the person actully seemed to STRONGLY want Terri dead. it was like an angry perversion or something.
Terris’ family did make a few key mistakes along the way. Installing Randal Terry to be your personal spokesperson is counter productive at best.. or disturbing and twisted.
Like hiring Richard Simmons to coach a high school football team.
its just not right,.
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posted on
04/10/2008 4:55:08 PM PDT
by
se_ohio_young_conservative
("Liberals voted to send soldiers off to war, and then abandoned them" (Vietnam and Iraq)
To: wagglebee
They starved and dehydrated her to death
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:23:17 PM PDT
by
moonman
To: se_ohio_young_conservative
"...and the person actully seemed to STRONGLY want Terri dead. it was like an angry perversion or something."
We had posters on FR at the time who were furious that anyone would want "the vegetable" kept alive. Some of them are still here.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:29:51 PM PDT
by
penowa
To: Michael Barnes; 8mmMauser; BykrBayb; Lesforlife; floriduh voter; bjs1779
Shes dead, Jim. Yes she is; they're trying to kill another young woman in Delaware, should we just let her die too?
By your reasoning on September 12, 2001 we all should have just said, "They're dead, Jim," and moved on.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:31:03 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Michael Barnes
Yes She’s dead. Other people aren’t and the death culture is working on them next.
If you treated a dog the way she was treated you would be put in jail. They killed her by withholding water. She didn’t die painlessly, peacefully or in her sleep. She suffered each and every moment.
To: penowa; se_ohio_young_conservative; 8mmMauser; BykrBayb; Lesforlife; floriduh voter; bjs1779
We had posters on FR at the time who were furious that anyone would want "the vegetable" kept alive. Some of them are still here. We could probably give you a pretty complete list of the ones who are still here if you were interested.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:33:26 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Michael Barnes
beyond disrespectul, beyond stupid.
To: wagglebee
Terri Schiavo's Brother: Misinformation About Her Euthanasia Death RemainsI set the record straight any chance I get.
To: the invisib1e hand
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:48:22 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
I frankly will never recover from the horror of what was committed by the legal system in Terri’s case. I suffered that Easter knowing what Florida did. Florida committed murder of an innocent life—a Christ figure. I encourage all my clients to make their healthcare wishes known—that the time of death is between God and them and no human assistance is required. That all medical assistance should be given unless specifically noted.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:51:15 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: yldstrk
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:53:24 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
"We could probably give you a pretty complete list of the ones who are still here if you were interested."
I remember well who they were, and I cheered as many of them bit the dust along with their phony conservatism and love of RINO Rudy.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:58:26 PM PDT
by
penowa
To: penowa
I remember well who they were, and I cheered as many of them bit the dust along with their phony conservatism and love of RINO Rudy. Funny how those two groups overlapped.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:59:54 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Terri’s Legacy marches on. The death cultists thought we’d be so downtrodden that we’d go home and stop exposing the immoral, illegal acts of murder through the medical-legal community. Not all doctors and lawyers and judges are killing people but PLENTY ARE.
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posted on
04/10/2008 6:00:03 PM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
To: Michael Barnes
Terri’s a martyr. She left a legacy for us to fight against the evil that is euthanasia. Now if you have something else in mind, why don’t you start a pro-euthanasia thread and see how long it lasts?
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posted on
04/10/2008 6:01:52 PM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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