This is the letter: Suppose, just suppose that Terri Schaivo never told her husband that she didn’t want to be kept alive by “tubes.” There is no proof that she said any such thing. Suppose he just wants to get rid of her because she is inconvenient to him. After all, he has lived with another woman for 10 years and has two children with her. He won’t divorce Terri because he hates her parents and wants them to suffer, too. Consider that he didn’t “remember” that she had said she didn’t want to be kept alive until seven years after she collapsed.If the above scenario is true, then the judiciary has been complicit with Michael Schiavo in the murder of his wife, yes the murder. She is not on life support. In order to kill her, he had to have her starved to death. He even got Judge Greer to rule that feeding her by mouth constituted “an experimental procedure” and was therefore not allowed. …Who will be next? Can’t you see the terrible precedent this sets? What if someone decides that Granny told them once that she didn’t want to be kept alive in a nursing home? Sounds pretty easy to me. Relatives are tired of paying for her care. They want their inheritance. Starve her to death.Are you also saying that the mentally retarded and autistic children don’t have much of a life, so should also be starved?If we can’t protect those in our society that cannot protect themselves, then we are a sorry lot.You know, the Nazis did away with the mentally ill that were in hospitals in Germany. They didn’t fit into the view of the “perfect society,” so they had them killed. Right now, we are no better.
I had people call and threaten me, and tell me what an idiot I was (anonymously, of course. Cowards!)
I remember on this site being attacked harshly for being for Terri’s rights. It was extremely sad.