Rest in Peace Terry Shindler-Schiavo
The courts got what they ruled -- a disabled person--Terri Schiavo -- was straved to death. So now I ask you, who is the next to go? The Pope? My grandmother who has Alzheimer's? Cancer patients or people with MS or maybe my friend who is paraplegic?
Terri’s “husband” (I cringe when I use that term for this evil man. A true husband he certainly is NOT) -- the man abandoned her and moved in with another woman and had two children but refused to divorce Terri and told nursing staff that he wanted her dead. Poor Terri committed no crime except maybe choosing the wrong mate. How her injury occurred remains a mystery and I hope an autopsy is at least performed to try to find out what happened.
Terri was on no ventilator – unlike “Superman”. She was not brain dead. Her parents offered to take her home and care for her at no expense to anyone other than themselves.
But SURPRISE The scum suddenly remembered that Terri wanted to die seven years into her disability. For the past 14 years he has denied Terri any therapy AT ALL. Thirty allegations of abuse, neglect or exploitation were filed in court by the Florida Department of Children and Families, but the judges disregarded all that.
Instead, they inhumanely starved Terri.
A sad sad day for the USA indeed for the world. So again, just how long before we start deciding who can live and who can die based on their disabilities? Does anyone hear "Hail Hilter" chants screaming in their minds?
posted by Sillilisteridatidester @ 10:20 AM
Respectfully, I couldn't disagree more. What possible motive could the man have had to go through what he went through other than acting in his wife's best wishes?
The law is the law. It developed the way it has for a reason. There was more than full due process. After hearing all the experts, a neutral finder of fact agreed that she was in a persistent vegetative state. Because she had left no advanced directive, her husband was legally empowered to make medical decisions on her behalf. Whether you or Tom DeLay agree with those decisions or not, it was something that was private between the two of them, protected by their marital relationship. Her husband -- who was certainly in a better position that you or I or Tom DeLay to know what his wife's beliefs were in this regard -- made the difficult choice. The easy choice would have been to wash his hands of the whole thing like Pontius Pilate. He instead chose to endure death threats and the baseless hatred of strangers who decided to intrude on his private tragedy, just to do what he thought was right.
There have been innuendoes regarding his subsequent relationship and the medical malpractice suit. They are born out of ignorance. Under the law, he was entitled to whatever he was entitled to back when the case settled, and he could have filed for divorce (or just walked away) the next day without losing a dime of the settlement. Similarly, if it was just about taking up with another woman, he could have gotten a divorce years ago.