Let me ask you something. I hope you'll be able to answer it after this interesting speech about how evil the Schindler's and Rush Limbaugh are.
Here's the timeline Michael Schiavo expects us to believe. This is based solely on testimony given by Michael, under oath, in courts of law.
Late 80's: Terri says, "Pull the plug"
1990: Terri collapses.
1992: Michael promises to care for her "for the rest of [his] life," after his lawyer has told the jury Terri may live for another 50 years.
1993: Michael stops rehab (against the advice of all the doctors involved in her rehab), euthanizes her cats, melts down her wedding ring and tries to deny her antibiotics for a urinary tract infection. He only allows treatment to go forward when the nursing home Terri is in tells him they are required by law to treat her infection.
1997: Michael suddenly remembers that whole "pull the plug" thing, seven years after she was first brain damaged and on a feeding tube, and 5 years after he promised to care for her in that state for a half-century if necessary. He also maintains that it's obvious her comments about not want ing to live for years on tubes means she would want to be starved to death.
Now, could you tell me how that timeline makes sense if Michael Schiavo is a loving husband and the Schindler's are scumbag hatemongers?
That's my question, but here are a few more:
When did the Schindlers lie? When did Rush?
When did the Schindlers incite hate? When did Rush?
When did the Schindlers break the law, or ask anyone to? When did Rush?
If their end justifies any means, why is Bob Schindler sitting outside with the press instead of inside the hospice with a shotgun?
Like most of us, you've probably mentioned to to a loved one that you wouldn't want to live as a vegetable. If so, when you said that, did you mean "Starve me to death over a period of weeks?" Could anyone who did mean that be considered sane?
Why can't you show these people a little of your screen name?
Oh, and one more I almost forgot:
Have you at long last no sense of decency?
It is wrong wrong wrong to keep someone 'alive' for FIFTEEN years who is in a persistant vegitative state.
Michael Schiavo came to this realization at some point along the 'timeline' you mention. Any rational human being would.
Oh, and in your second sentance you started making things up about me. I did not use the word evil. Typical of a one track mind. Incapable of analysing a situation outside of your closed system thought processes. Life is too hard for folks like you so you make up a small-closed-system-fairy-tale world and live in it. Then anyone who violates YOUR rules is EEEE--V--I--LLLLL.
No one is murdering Terri and when you say we are you lose all credibility. You're just another loon fanatic on the fringe.
Now tell yourself you are one of the (very few) TRUE Christians that will have heaven all to yourselves ... and toddle off back to that little crack in the ground you call home.
One burning question that came up in conversation with my sister (an RN) this weekend was, how did she get accepted to "hospice" in the first place?
I understand there are certain criteria to be in it...is it not a State regulated issue?
My understanding is that one goes there to die, not live, especially as long as she has.