Yes, I know this and he has stated his reasons. You make it sound like he used it to buy a lear jet. I think MS did the right thing and worked to fulfill his wife's wishes because there was nothing more that could have been done. How do you know she wasn't suffering every day she was alive? You don't. I don't. I'd hope my husband would do the same thing in the same circumstance. I've said this a thousand times that I believe there are things worse than death, and when asked if one would want to live indefinitely in the condition Terri was in, 99.9% of the people on this Earth would say no. And this has nothing to do with people with disabilities. This is about the permanent condition Terri Schiavo was in and only that. And we're done here. I respect your opinion, you're obviously passionate about it, but so am I. Why else would I subject myself to the neverending beatings I get whenever I question anything about this topic. Because it's a very, very important subject and we as a Country must talk about it and come to terms with the fact that we cannot keep every"body" alive no matter what just because we can.
When a jury awarded Terri Schiavo more than $1 million in a medical malpractice suit against her two physicians in 1992, it did so believing the money would be used to pay for the brain-injured woman's long-term care and rehabilitation.You see, Hildy, this is just one article concerning the award money and what MS did with it. I have not made up anything.But instead of the therapy he promised he'd provide for Terri, her estranged husband, Michael Schiavo, 41, who is also her legal guardian, used most of the money to pay attorneys to arrange his wife's death; and he did this with full court approval. [i.e., the Judges authorized same by Court Order]
The money awarded Terri was placed in a trust fund, and a judge approved all expenditures from pedicures to attorney bills. The latter has skyrocketed over the years, as Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, battled their son-in-law in the Florida courts over their daughter's right to live.
By June 2001, the trust fund money had dwindled to $350,000. Today, just $40,000 to $50,000 remains. * * *
Terri's account balance had dropped to about $100,000 by 2002, at which time a strategy was devised to qualify her for Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the indigent and disabled.
In situations like this, after assets are sold the remaining money goes into trust and can only be used for certain specified purposes, Anderson said. Upon the patient's death any remaining money goes to the government. In exchange, the government extends Medicaid benefits.
All I wish is that MS would have done with the money what he told a jury, under oath, he was going to do with the money: "take care of Terri, for the rest of HIS life."
http://www.darrylwoodonline.com/CounterB.htm
The following is a summary of expenses paid from Terri's 1.2 million dollar medical trust fund awarded by a jury in 1992. In 1993 Schiavo alleged the 1993 guardianship asset balance at *$761,507.50:
Attorney Gwyneth Stanley $10,668.05
Attorney Deborah Bushnell $65,607.00
Attorney Steve Nilson $7,404.95
Attorney Pacarek $1,500.00
Attorney Richard Pearse (GAL) $4,511.95
Attorney George Felos $397,249.99
Other
1st Union/South Trust Bank $55,459.85
Michael Schiavo $10,929.95
Total $545,852.34