Michael and Jodi Schiavo were in New York City on Saturday as part of a book promotion.
should read "After his wife's murder ...
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This is barf-worthy on so many levels, it's mind-boggling.
One thing in particular, though: "...At the wedding, Mike wore his new wedding band, a circle of diamonds almost 3 carats in weight."
Real men don't wear rings like that. Not REAL men. Never.
But he'll make a fortune,thanks to the very same crowd that made Michael Moore a multi-millionaire.
Jeb Bush for President /sarcasm off
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Open Letter to Michael Schiavo 3/25/2006 8:38:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Jerry Horn of Priests for Life, 540-220-0095 WASHINGTON, March 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, and an eyewitness to Terri Schiavo's final hours, released the following open letter to Michael Schiavo tonight. Fr. Pavone will read it to a worldwide audience on an internationally broadcast religious service on Sunday morning, March 26: A year ago this week, I stood by the bedside of the woman you married and promised to love in good times and bad, in sickness and health. She was enduring a very bad time, because she hadn't been given food or drink in nearly two weeks. And you were the one insisting that she continue to be deprived of food and water, right up to her death. I watched her face for hours on end, right up to moments before her last breath. Her death was not peaceful, nor was it beautiful. If you saw her too, and noticed what her eyes were doing, you know that to describe her last agony as peaceful is a lie. This week, tens of millions of Americans will remember those agonizing days last year, and will scratch their heads trying to figure out why you didn't simply let Terri's mom, dad, and siblings take care of her, as they were willing to do. They offered you, again and again, the option to simply let them care for Terri, without asking anything of you. But you refused and continued to insist that Terri's feeding be stopped. She had no terminal illness. She was simply a disabled woman who needed extra care that you weren't willing to give. I speak to you today on behalf of the tens of millions of Americans who still wonder why. I speak to you today to express their anger, their dismay, their outraged astonishment at your behavior in the midst of this tragedy. Most people will wonder about these questions in silence, but as one of only a few people who were eyewitnesses to Terri's dehydration, I have to speak. I have spoken to you before, not in person, but through mass media. Before Terri's feeding tube was removed for the last time, I appealed to you with respect, asking you not to continue on the road you were pursuing, urging you to reconsider your decisions, in the light of the damage you were doing. I invited you to talk. But you did not respond. Then, after Terri died, I called her death a killing, and I called you a murderer because you knew -- as we all did -- that ceasing to feed Terri would kill her. We watched, but you had the power to save her. Her life was in your hands, but you threw it away, with the willing cooperation of attorneys and judges who were as heartless as you were. Some have demanded that I apologize to you for calling you a murderer. Not only will I not apologize, I will repeat it again. Your decision to have Terri dehydrated to death was a decision to kill her. It doesn't matter if Judge Greer said it was legal. No judge, no court, no power on earth can legitimize what you did. It makes no difference if what you did was legal in the eyes of men; it was murder in the eyes of God and of millions of your fellow Americans and countless more around the world. You are the one who owes all of us an apology. Your actions offend us. Not only have you killed Terri and deeply wounded her family, but you have disgraced our nation, betrayed the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and undermined the principles that hold us together as a civilized society. You have offended those who struggle on a daily basis to care for loved ones who are dying, and who sometimes have to make the very legitimate decision to discontinue futile treatment. You have offended them by trying to confuse Terri's circumstances with theirs. Terri's case was not one of judging treatment to be worthless -- which is sometimes the case; rather, it was about judging a life to be worthless, which is never the case. You have made your mark on history, but sadly, it is an ugly stain. In the name of millions around the world, I call on you today to embrace a life of repentance, and to ask forgiveness from the Lord, who holds the lives of each of us in His hands. -- Fr. Frank Pavone Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit http://www.priestsforlife.org. |
Hmmmmm......aren't most grave markers are about the person who died, not the one who helped put them there?
This was a weird case. Everyone came out looking bad. Schiavo came out looking bad. The parents came out looking awful (and rightfully so). The pandering politicians who saw chances to exploit a family tragedy to score political points. The talk show hosts who saw this as a way to mislead people into excitment. Everyone. There are thousands of end of life choices made every year by families and spouses. Most are much less clear cut than this one and involve patients with more hope than Schiavo had. I fail to see why this one warranted congress coming back into session and the whole nations attention. I tend to fall with people like Boortz on this one. The woman had been in a coma for more than a decade. She had a zero percent chance of ever waking up (regardless of what some delusional and easily duped posters believe). She was a vegetable, had been a vegetable for a long time, and would always be a vegetable. At some point you have to let go when the soul has long since left the body. I'm a strongly pro-life person but this case was a really stupid one for some pro-lifers to get themselves in a tizzy over.
Both Michael Schiavo and George Felos are 2 ghouls. I don't know much about the wife but I hope she watches her back well. I hope nobody buys his book. Sad to say we treat death row inmates kinder when we kill them then what Terri went through. To say its a peaceful death is utterly disgusting. Maybe someday Michael will be in the same shape and his children will remember how peaceful a death by withholding food and water is. And perhaps he will die the same way, I hope it takes weeks.
I hate the St Pete Times. They are a vile, left wing DNC organ.
This Sunday their front page was their newest crusade - people aren't paying enough in property tax. They want to shoot down the "Save Our Homes" which limits tax increases on a homeowners property.
I won't even buy them for the coupons. I don't care if I save $50. That's how much I hate that paper.
Whoa, was it public knowledge at the time that Mike was a registered nurse and I am just forgetting? I'm an RN too and obviously got a very different intepretation of the dying and ethics classes.
Hey Mike, there was another answer. It's called D-I-V-O-R-C-E. You will some day be called to account for yourself. I don't envy you.
Wife #2 better watch her back.
Anita Kumar came the first day of the Vigil with a sign supporting Michael Schiavo. The next day, she showed up with her press credentials. How vile is that? Anita show us your bias and we'll throw some beads at you.