The Interview That Wasn't Michael Schiavo got the usual Larry King softballs.

The Weekly Standard ^ | 10/28/2003 | Wesley J. Smith

[lugsoul]

Why should he be removed as guardian without some finding of wrongdoing?

Hasn't she had a GAL? What was wrong with the GAL?

Do you support that kind of second-, third- and fourth-guessing in EVERY case in which family members disagree over life-sustaining treatment, or just this one?

[Warren_Piece]

The GAL submitted to the court a request to remove MS as guardian. Greer then allowed Felos to fire him. Sure, she had a GAL...

[Mamzelle]

It is her death which he has so profoundly and publicly desired. He has many reasons to wish her gone--and is not willing to allow others to assume the burden of her life. It's not that much of a stretch. I think a good case could be made that he brought such suspicions reasonably and naturally by his words and behavior.

You'd waste your time, and lose.

[MarMema]

I was just going to post this and you saved me the work.
Thanks!

[Mamzelle]

This one does have some compelling elements--a big lawsuit payout that was for one purpose, but somehow has "disappeared"--a live-in girlfriend. An involvement with an ideologue lawyer a la Kervorkian. (Check out the CV of Felos). The possibility that she may be sentient. The fact that she is not terminally ill.

But there's this, "She belongs to me, and I'll let 'er die if I want to."

Such a Meditteranean attitude.

Yes, this one has some differences.

[MarMema]

Please ping.

[A. Patriot]

IMHO, the idea that he can just walk away and "give" her to the parents treats her like property.

Seem like once Mikie is done with Terri, he can just have her killed and her body cremated --parents and loved ones be damned--all at his whim. Seems like HE is treating her like his personal property to me.

Treating her just like a dog that he has no use for anymore.

Looks like these hospices in Florida are the human equivalent of the Animal Rescue League where you take your pet to be "put down".

[4Godsoloved..Hegave]

The CNN poll is still open. Please vote if you haven't. The poll current results are 60% in favor of having Terri's feeding tube reinserted, 40% against.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/late.edition/

[MarMema]

Voted.

Should Terri Schiavo's feeding tube have been reinserted?

Yes 60% 1553 votes

No 40% 1042 votes

Total: 2595 votes

My, my, polls are changing these days...

[MarMema]

You could probably learn a lot from reading some of the links on my FR webpage.

I highly recommend, in particular, The Starving of Hugh Finn.

[aculeus]

I was just going to post this and you saved me the work. Thanks!

It was up at Weekly Standard for three hours before I posted it. Thanks for doin' the search!

[lugsoul]

Read it. Sounds to me just like this case - a case of people believing entirely what they want to believe without regard to contrary evidence.

The biggest difference between that one and this one is that Hugh had treating physicians who believed he had a good chance of recovery - can you name a single treating physician of Terri who hasn't said she's gone?

[DaGman]

I fail to see how her condition eleven years ago in 1992 has anything to do with her condition in 2003. I still don't know when the videos I've seen were taken. Were they in 1992, '93, 96, 2002 or 2003? No one seems to want to or be able to answer these questions.

[isrul]

Has there been anyone who could be defined as a "treating" physician since the original health insurance ran out in 19990 or '91?

If she has received no treatment since then, who could be a "treating" physician?

[Quester]

The biggest difference between that one and this one is that Hugh had treating physicians who believed he had a good chance of recovery - can you name a single treating physician of Terri who hasn't said she's gone?

"When we come to visit, she'll see us and laugh ear-to-ear," said Bob Schindler, Mrs. Schiavo's father. "Her mother will hug her goodbye and Terri will start to cry." Mrs. Schiavo often turns her head purposefully when people speak to her, according to affidavits filed this year by six neurologists. She makes guttural sounds that appear to be attempts at speech. She also opens her eyes during the day and closes them at night to sleep.

A total of nine neurologists have also stated that Terri Schiavo is not in PVS. "It is obvious to me that Ms. Schiavo is a viable human being who is at least semi-responsive to her environment," physician Richard Neubauer stated in a May 2001 affidavit. Dr. Neubauer is a recognized expert in hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a type of treatment he believes might improve Terri's condition. "She is not brain dead nor is she in a persistent vegetative state."

Florida neurologist William Hammesfahr, in a June 2001 affidavit, stated that his own review of Mrs. Schiavo's CAT scans revealed significant, viable brain tissue. "The CAT scan readings or MRI readings of Ms. Schiavo's brain were misrepresented to the court during the trial in January 2000," Dr. Hammesfahr said.

[lugsoul]

If you believe she has not been treated since then, you are reading more ridiculous reports than even her family is presenting.

[lugsoul]

I said treating physicians.

Lots of people will say lots of things in court, for money. Dr. Baden, for example. Show me someone who had that opinion for purposes other than a court fight.

[isrul]

But the great lord god, Judge Magoo has issued his ruling.

No power on earth can defy that. Especially those eeevil Republicans. /sarcasm>

[isrul]

Just asking a question. If she was "treated', perhaps you could share with us, what, specifically, those "treatments" were or even might have been.