PC93, you who keep such great records. By any chance do you have any type of link to that exact courtroom testimony by Michaels brother where the brother testified that Terri said she didn't want any extrodinary measures. Remeber that transcript? It was just only a few lines and that is what Judge greer accepted and determined that Terri should die? If you could find that without to much trouble, I would liekt ot use it i an e-mail.
Many thanks
Any type of link? How's this?
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/08/Tampabay/Schiavo_s_wishes_reca.shtml
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disability-civil-rights/message/1589 (1 of 3)7/11/2004 7:46:51 PM
Subject: Hearsay wishes of Terri Schindler Schiavo 10 yrs. after alleged "accident"
The words below inside the quotation marks are the actual words spoken during the Jan 00 death trial. It is on the basis of these words that Judge Greer concluded that "Terri wants to die." Remember that Terri did not have any advanced directives, living will or anything in
regards to her wanting to be starved and dehydrated to death. Remember also that she has been heinously denied rehab and therapy for 10+ years. This is it:
Joan Schiavo:
In the context of discussing friends of Joan's who decided to remove their year-old infant from a "ventilator machine":
"She had said that if her and Michael were ever put in that kind of a situation that that would be a situation that she really would not want to have to deal with, but she knows that her and Michael would make the best decision and that would be to do the same thing my
girlfriend and her husband did because she would not want to put the baby through anything like that." (Joan Schiavo Trial testimony 232:18-25, 1/24/00).
"Happened Maybe â ˜85 or â ˜86." (Id. 237:17).
"Her comments related more to what she would do as a parent for a child. (Id. 238-17-19).
They took all the tubing and everything off the baby." (Id. 233:2-3)
"We had stated that if that ever happened to one of us, in our lifetime, we would not want to go through that. That we would want it stated in our will we would want the tubes and everything taken out." (Id. 233:12-16)
In the context of Joan and Terri watching a movie about a diving accident:
"No. She did not want to live like that. She didn't want to go through that. Have people come and see her like that. Do that to her family and friends." (Id. 234:19-22).
"We had said during the time with that movie, at one time we had said that if, that we had always wanted stated, my husband and myself, make up a will. She would want it stated, and myself, I would, if it came down to something like that, we would not want any kind of life support." (Id. 236:25-237:5)
"The situation with my girlfriend's baby was when she lived here, not in Florida." (Id. 244:17-19)
Michael Schiavo:
In the context of Michael discussing a conversation with Terri about her grandmother's death and the effect on her Uncle Fred:
"She says, 'If I ever have to be a burden to anybody, I don't want to live like that.'" (Michael Schiavo 31:1-2; 1/24/03)
"She made the comment to me that she would never want to be like that. Don't ever keep her alive on anything artificial." (Id. at 33: 7-8)
Scott Schiavo:
In the context of the immediate aftermath of Michael's grandmother's death. The grandmother had been on a ventilator the last few days. Afterward, her grandchildren and spouses (including Terri) gathered at a local country club for lunch:
"And Terri made mention at that conversation 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.' Pretty much everybody at the table that was in the discussion had made the same comment. No way I want to be kept alive on a machine." (Scott 1/24/03 at 102:18-24)
"And Terri was sitting with us and Terri made the mention that she would never want to be kept alive like that. You know, if it is her time to go, it's her time to go." (Id at 106:22-25)