Easy money? You've gotta be kidding. He's never been able to hold a good job? Prove it. I've never read anything of the sort. There was no rehabilitation to be had. She was gone. There are those who believe that it is more compassionate to let people die in peace than be poked and prodded and subject to a life of humiliation, and that's assuming she even understood what was happening. All reports say she didn't. She couldn't see and her brain was non-existant. I understand what you and your side think and I understand why. And I'm not saying that in a mean-spirited way. I understand where you are coming from. Why won't you at least try to understand my side of the street and the reasons we believe what we believe? Do you really think I'm a death mongerer? Honestly?
The sheriff's dept gave Schiavo a job, probably at the behest of Scientologists or other factions very active in the St. Pete's political scene.
What you have read is evidently not enough. You say, "Prove it." It is not my job to bring you up to speed. It is your job. You do the research. You do the reading. Until you do your homework, you have no factual basis for your opinion.
Meanwhile, think about $250,000 from the first malpractice suit. The doctor angrily denied the charges and was exonerated by a Florida agency. But Michael did not return the money. There's a very easy quarter of a million bucks. Has anyone handed you $250,000 for nothing?
In the second malpractice suit, he got $350,000 (I think it was) for "loss of consortium." That means he wasn't getting love at home. But he didn't lose any time getting love from Cindy, Trudy and Jodi. He didn't lose any "consortium" at all. There's another third of a million bucks, easy and free. Did you ever get handed $350,000 for nothing?
That's $600,000 in easy money for a guy who let his wife be the breadwinner with her insurance agency job while he couldn't make it working at McDonald's.
Terri WAS NOT dying. Everybody knew it. The autopsy report confirmed it. She was not dying. She was not terminal. She was put to death, not "in peace" but in a most cruel and barbaric manner. Do not talk of "compassion."
And do not, if you please, try to give me reasons why it is just fine to kill her. She had as much right to live as everyone else. God did not put any escape clauses in "Thou shalt not kill." She was His creation, and no one had His permission to destroy her.
Yup, he was a dead beat. Couldn't hold a job, leached off the Shindlers. It's in court transcripts.