Posted on 03/20/2005 12:29:52 PM PST by kcvl
Right. If Terri could not swallow her own saliva, it would have aspirated into her lungs causing pneumonia several times over. Been there, done that with a member of my own family.
But you're also putting solid down down and not throwing it up 5 minutes later like she was. Friends who knew here say she was "pudgy" (their words, not mine) in high school and kept getting thinner every year.
Michael wanted to “move on” with his life was evident long before Pearse interviewed Michael. In the 1993 guardianship hearing, Michael testified regarding his disposition of some of Terri’s property:
Attorney: What did you do with your wife’s jewelry?
Michael: My wife’s jewelry?
Attorney: Yeah.
Michael: Um, I think I took her engagement ring and her...what do they call it...diamond wedding band and made a ring for myself.
Attorney: What did you do with her cats?
Michael: Her cats were put to sleep on the advice of my mother-in-law.
The veterinarian who euthanized Terri’s pets came forward to say there was never any suggestion from Terri’s mother that this be done, and that it was done only at Michael Schiavo’s insistence.
Pearse also found that Michael’s claim that Terri wouldn’t want to live in her condition wasn’t credible and noted that Michael stood to inherit about $800,000:
[H]is credibility is necessarily adversely affected by the obvious financial benefit to him of being the ward’s sole heir at law in the event of her death while still married to him. Her death also permits him to get on with his own life.
In February 1999, Felos filed a “suggestion of bias” against Pearse and demanded he be removed as guardian ad litem. The judge then hearing the case, Bruce Boyer, took no action on Felos’s “suggestion of bias” or on Pearse’s report. In April of that year, Pearse filed a request that he either be given further instructions or discharged. He reiterated his concerns about Michael’s guardianship and also noted that there would be due process difficulties if the case proceeded to trial without Terri having an independent guardian ad litem. Judge Boyer discharged Pearse without appointing a successor.
The case then proceeded to trial before Judge Greer, who also refused to appoint a new guardian ad litem to represent Terri’s interests in the case.
There is medically documented evidence her weight went from 250 lbs to 110.
Because he's unfaithful to her. He isn't a husband to her anymore, and he's found someone else that he is apparently fairly committed to.
I don't get why he would stand in the way of someone who wanted to take responsibility for her. I find this insistance on making sure she dies kind of odd given the circumstances, don't you?
But it is possible that he did get into a heated argument with her and one thing lead to another
I read your post.
Lots of people can't eat with their mouths.
My daughter when she was a baby was put on a feeding after she was on a ventilator for a month because she couldn't suck anymore.
There's other people that are also on feeding tubes. The pope might even need one because he had a tracheotomy.
Once, on a Nat'l Geo show, there was in the midst of a huge herd of many beast a lost wildebeast calf. He hollered and squealed for some minutes before an adult zebra came up and calmly kicked the life out of the calf. Didn't like the calf making so much noise...might attract predators.
Correct, and when she was discharged from Humana Northside, she weighed 200 pounds because she was getting the nutrition she needed.
a conflicted husband, albeit legal, should not be in a position to determine the life or death of a profoundly disabled wife. not in a civilized society.
Yes, how horrible of them not to sit back quietly and let their daughter starve to death. The outrage!
Its been 15 years. He feels he is doing what she would have wanted. You have Catholic Priests who take vows of celibacy who can't even keep them. He is just as human as you or I.
"A soon to be federal inmate."
LOL! Appropriate place for him.
Actually, 'who is Judge Greer' was an answer to a post....not a question.
WHO IS DR. JAY WOLFSON
TERRI SCHIAVO'S SOON TO BE APPOINTED GUARDIAN AD LITEM?
Dr. Jay Wolfson is director of the Florida Health Information Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
He is also a lawyer.
The University of South Florida is intimately connected to Hospice and Hospice of the Florida Suncoast (the corporate owner of the hospice where Terri was being dehydrated and starved, and where she is once again interned).
The USF website gives information on continuing professional education to be held November 6th by the University of South Florida's Center for Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Studies.
The University of South Florida, Dr. Jay Wolfson's employer, has a partnership with, among other hospice organizations, the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.
But not right away, obviously.
If there had been even the hint of abuse, do you not think that the insurance company lawyers for the accused doctor in the malpractice case would have bird-dogged abuse charges right out of the chute?
Sometimes people can get a small amount of food down naturally, but it is not enough to support them.
It isn't worth the time and effort to converse, on this issue, with the people who reduce Michael's exercise of spite to a mere legal argument.
Well that is I guess for the court to decide. We'll see what happens after the Pres signs the next bill. I predict it won't get anywhere, but maybe I'll be surprised.
Your husband (if you have one) is not family?
Funny, every legal entity considers husbands and wives as "family."
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