You mean this hand?
Posted on 09/23/2005 12:57:18 PM PDT by Millee
In his first public comments since his wife's death, Michael Schiavo said today that ''I never, in my entire life, thought I would be thrown into such a national debate.... All I wanted to do was carry out my wife's wishes.''
Schiavo spoke at a conference in Minneapolis on medical ethics as several dozen protesters marched outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel where the conference was being held.
Wiping away tears, Schiavo described his last moments with his wife, Terri, who died in March after a dramatic court battle to remove her feeding tube.
''Terri didn't die an awful death,'' he said. As she died, ''I laid a red rose in her hand and said goodbye.''
Schiavo, in recounting his 15-year ordeal, said he refused for years to believe his wife was in a permanent vegetative state after she suffered brain damage when her heart stopped in 1990.
When doctors told him in that first year that she would never recover, he said, ''I told them they were wrong. I was going to bring my wife home and we were going to get on with our lives.'' It was only after years of futile effort to revive her that he decided to end her treatment. He said that's what she would have wanted.
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He makes slime look good.
Michael Schiavo speaking at a mdeical ethics conference is like Bill Clinton speaking at a Sexual Harrassment seminar......
I'm sitting here trying to figure out why this news makes me think of serving frog legs in the school cafeteria.
I can only hope that bastard gets the kharma kurse dropped on his ass. He'll have to suffer for a few lifetimes to get past the evil he visited on Terri.
This doesn't give me much confidence in people who keep on eye on medical ethics. What were they thinking?
Pure comedy gold.
Should read: In his first public comments since his wife's murder
That's better.
That sentence should be reworded to speak the truth. "It was only after years of futile planning to murder her that he decided to starve her to death."
Michael should put his money where his mouth is by specifying in his living will that he wishes to be starved and dehydrated to death once his demise is near. (Of course Terri's wasnt.)
"Terri didn't die an awful death."
And neither did Mary Jo Kopechne.
Ted Kennedy can do one-hand pushups
and John Kerry is a war hero.
Welcome to liberal Bizzaro world.
What is amazing to me is why is the military down in New Orleans saving all of those people that were dying, they were obviously euphoric... -sarc
Michael, it's good to know that Terry didn't die an awful death. The survivors of Auschwitz indicated that extreme dehydration and starvation wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. I guess they just don't feel as bad as they look.
In other news; Saddam Husein to speak at good governance convention.
"She died one of those great, fun deaths that we all watched those Ethiopian kids enjoying on TV in the mid-80s! Live Aid people! You know what I'm talking about!" he continued, "Total euphoria, dudes!"
You mean this hand?
His address was met by a standing ovation from the more than 200 people in attendance.
More than 200 people who are as mentally ill as Michael is.
Hey Michael, I made Terri a promise too.
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