Well, early Christians practiced suicide to show that they were not tied to earthly life. The Church didn't ban it until the Council of Brega in the 6th Century...and even then, the Church still sanctioned some suicides (since it was tough to admit that they had saints who had done so, otherwise).
Either way, it seems that "life at all costs" isn't an original part of Catholicism in particular, while it's antithetical to Christianity in general.
You are wrong about early Christians and suicide. Early Christians preferred to go to their deaths, most of these deaths were cruel and unusual punishments rather than give into the demands of the pagans.
However there was a group called Circumcellions who seemed to think that it was ok to suicide and they tried to set themselves up for suicide.
There are also cults such as the Manicheans and their offshoots the Catharists, which include the Albigenses who indulged in suicide, usually done by starvation and dehydration. The Albigenses actually had some very strange practices. The one of interest concerns the point at which they are considered to be Perfecti, and that is the point where they received what was their one Sacrament and then they allowed themselves to die.
This was not the practice of real Christians.
Michael Schiavo was never a pawn in the end game. He was the instigator. George Felos was a part of the end game but he was never the puppet master. Michael Schiavo remained the puppet master.
On the other hand if anyone is familiar with the hit movie Chicago, I can visualise George Felos in the starring lawyer role. He is just like the tap dancer in that movie. He and his cronies managed to do a lot of tap dancing as they pulled the strings of the MSM.
Michael Schiavo used the euthanasia movement to arrange the killing of his wife. The euthanasia movement, represented by Felos, Greer, Cranford and others used Terri Schiavo as their ticket to fame and a new legal nightmare.