Posted on 03/21/2005 7:50:03 AM PST by Pendragon_6
Actually I believe that he sued the doctors for missdiagnosing her condition.
I don't recall how much money he got but it was a lot. The way he recieved so much was that he took the witness stand, recited his wedding vows, proclaimed his etenal love for Terri and said that if he received enough money he would become a nurse and care for Therri the rest of her life.
He received the money and began the process of having her legally killed.
It was after winning the lawsuit, someone said 7 years later that he suddenly remembered that she once said she did not want to live like that.
If one chooses to believe Michael, they are believing a perjuer at,or at best an proven by his own actions a liar.
Of coures millions of people have no problem believing another perjurer and proven liar, one William /Jefferson Clinton.
Quite an arrogant bugger, isn't he?
Wow. That's nice...really nice.
Asshole.
"A good husband doesn't absolve himself of his responsibility to his wife to her parents."
A good husband doesn't go off with another women-"full time" have kids with her and pocket his wifes money.
If he needed to go on withhis life he could have handed custody to her parents.
My condolences to you for the death of your wife. That has to be incredibly painful to go through. I must say that the difference between Terri's situation and your late wife's situation is that your wife was dying of cancer, while Terri is "inconveniently' not dying. You were a faithful husband until you were parted by her death; Michael is not.
Being a faithful husband "for many years" doesn't cut it. Neither does having "the sense to move on, find another and raise a family" while he is still married to Terri. As evidence, I submit his own words in sworn testimony:
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 92-939-15
EXCERPT OF JURY TRIAL - TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL RICHARD SCHIAVO
(November 5, 1992)
page 26 Q. Why did you want to learn to be a nurse? page 27 A. Because I enjoy it and I want to learn more how to take care of Terry. Q. You're a young man. Your life is ahead of you. Your future is beyond you. Up the road, when you look up the road, what do you see for yourself? A. I see myself hopefully finishing school and taking care of my wife. Q. Where do you want to take care of your wife? A. I want to bring my wife home. Q. If you had the resources available to you, if you had the equipment and the people, would you do that? A. Yes, I would, in a heartbeat. Q. How do you feel about being married to Terry now? A. I feel wonderful. She's my life and I wouldn't trade her for the world. I believe in my -- I believe in my wedding vows. Q. What do you mean? You want to take a minute? A. Yeah. MR. WOODWORTH: If the Court would let us take a minute. Q. (BY MR. WOODWORTH:) You okay? A. Yeah. I'm sorry. Q. Have -- you said you believe in your wedding vows, what do you mean by that? A. I believe in the vows that I took with my wife, page 28 through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I'm going to do that. http://journals.aol.com/justice1949/JUSTICEFORTERRISCHIAVO/entries/323
His sworn testimony means about as much as his wedding vows.
Cordially,
Amen!
Terri is not dying of anything; she is being starved to death.
Hmmm..... which vow. I'm wondering if he didn't tell her something about killing her as tried to break her neck.
Garbage.
Michael Schiavo's supporters claim he loved his wife Terri enough to take a nursing degree so that he could take care of her. I think he got that nursing degree so he could inject her with insulin and hasten her death and his complete claim to all the money he won in litigation.
Garbage.
I am amazed this thread is still up. What an embarrassment.
Of course I will. Michael's wife DIED fifteen years ago. All that remains is the shell of her body. She is gone.
I find this objection absurd - what option does a young Catholic have in Michael's case? It's not as if he shacked up with another woman within days, weeks or months after his wife's collapse. IIRC, he waited for six or seven years before making that move.
Who among us can honestly critisize him for that?
I know many Catholics who didn't get a divorce and subsequently lived with another woman. Somehow, the sin of living together is not as great as the sin of divorce in their eyes. After all, according to Catholic dogma, divorce is an excommunicable offense (I know, surprised me too) whereas living together isn't.
Not all men . My wife took care of a women with a long history of ALS whose husband was at her side to the end.
Immoral laws, like immoral and unlawful orders, are meant to be broken.
The fact that you can make this comment shows that you are caring more for the law than justice. You're wrong on this one.
Each case is different, but I prefer giving everyone the option of getting themselves cryogenically frozen before the brain's connections are destroyed in the hopes that nanomedicine in the future will be able to cure them and revive them to full health and long lives.
I wish this option was available to my wife when she was dying two years ago. At least there will be a chance of reviving her whereas now that she's buried; we will just to wait for the Resurrection.
No, I agree. I said "most men", which I believe is true.
"The fact that Michael moved in with another woman while his wife has been brain dead(I'm not going to debate that part here) since 1990!!!!, means nothing to me. Some people here expect him to lead the life of a priest while his wife is a vegetable for 15 years!!!"
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I understand that, I really do. It took my mother three years to die of breast cancer, complicated by AM Leukemia, brought on by the radiation (which,ironically, she beat with her sister's bone marrow transplant, but the cancer came back); and during those three years my father nursed her, cared for her, fed, clothed, changed and loved her.
We found out after her death that he had been having an affair with his high school sweetheart whom he met at a high school reunion, towards the end of my mother's life. There was no doubt she would die; and she never knew anything but love and caring from my father. Am I happy about his affair? Of course not. Do I judge him for it? Never. That's not my place, and he was there for mom while we three kids were busy with our own lives, as they lived in Florida, we lived in New York.
But as to Scott Peterson, its more than just his happy phone calls to Amber Frey during a vigil for Lacy and Conner and his lack of emotion about her disappearance and death. One pebble of circumstantial evidence is nothing in itself--but there was a whole dumptruck of them. I need not enumerate them here, we've all been saturated with the trial details. He's guilty. He's been appropriately sentenced. And I sincerely hope, as he waits the twenty years for his sentence to be carried out, that he come to terms with what he did and become man enough to admit it. Though I don't imagine that will happen until his appeals are exhausted.
Look, if you think he's innocent, I'm not going to convince you--and vice versa.
Let's leave it at that then.
RE: Yeah, right, put it on back on me.
Well you seem to have a thing about adultery, as if it's OK or something ...
A dead person doesn't smile at her mother when she walks into the room.
Terri Schiavo does. Therefore, she isn't dead. Yet.
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