Posted on 09/27/2005 12:47:03 PM PDT by Crackingham
Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings are writing a book about their struggle in the epic end-of-life case that divided the country and captured the attention of everyone from the Pope John Paul II to President Bush, their publisher said Tuesday. The yet untitled memoir by parents Bob and Mary Schindler, brother Bobby Schindler and sister Suzanne Vitadamo will be published in March to coincide with the first anniversary of the death of the brain-damaged woman, whose feeding tube was removed after her husband won a court order to do so.
"This book is the moving story of an ordinary family caught up in extraordinary circumstances, and it will set the record straight for the first time," said Jamie Raab, senior vice president and publisher at Warner Books in New York.
The Schindlers' book is likely to compete for space on the shelves with a memoir by Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael, who fought his in-laws in court for eight years to end her life, arguing she would not have wanted to be kept alive in what doctors called a persistent vegetative state. Michael Schiavo said he is collaborating on the book with author Michael Hirsh. The 280-page book is titled "Terri: the Truth," and is planned for release in March by Dutton Publishing.
The Schindlers will donate profits from the book to a foundation they established when they were fighting to save Terri's life, Warner Books said. The foundation now is dedicated to protecting severely disabled people.
The press release announcing the book said Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings "fought simply as a caring family and never the ideological zealots depicted by the mainstream media.
"For the first time ever, they will share their love and sorrow, joy and pain, and some shocking revelations as they honor Terri's life, mourn her death, and finally tell the whole story, the true story, of an innocent woman who met a needlessly premature death."
I am just speculating....like a few are doing about The Schindler's...however, I think it is terrible of Michael to write a book, much less what he does with the money...it causes more anguish for her family. He should just leave it alone and get on with his life. The Schindler's have suffered enough!
One that's all about you, of course. It's all the rage in Clearwater so I hear.
Libel can be costly you know...
Hahahahahahahahaha. Take your idle threats elsewhere. You're just another kool-aid drinker for the Schindler's party line, comrade.
For that very reason I've only made one post. This is the second and last. They can spew bile all alone. I won't be their audience.
Oh well, something has to be done to support that huge new building with all the fancy lights where none of the stores and restaurants are making money except Fresh Direct and Williams-Sonoma. For this we have huge afternoon shadows on Central Park. And now books about poor Terri.
""This book is the moving story of an ordinary family caught up in extraordinary circumstances, and it will set the record straight for the first time,"
Good on them...let them tell their story without the media skewing or screwing with their message. I would rather read their book than that idiot 'Deep Throat' worthless schmuck.
Amazing what a little research can turn up innit?
Finally the whole truth will get out, and they will use the profits to help future disabled people from being murdered.
As the Schindlers said: "Never again."
It's a little ambiguous, isn't it?
NO it isn't. And neither are you.
put him through hell
No one put him through hell - he's putting himself there.
Schindler's behavior
You got a problem with parents that love their children?
Those that continue to defend him
Learn something - you now know what their life is all about. Birds of a feather flock together. Just be thankful that they are not a part of your family.
Now that is a 'right on' post!
it did not support the theory of a heart attack
That's because it was cardiac arrest, not a heart attack. There's a difference you know, or maybe you don't, as you mentioned heart attack when the report speaks to cardiac arrest. Try again.
I'm sure a lot of people are wondering why you show up on these threads, supporting forced euthanasia, and opposing those who try to stop it.
Hmmmm, to think no one knew that this was your private thread. I'm sure you didn't want just a one-sided viewpoint thread, naw, sure you didn't.
What are you babbling about now?
think it is terrible of Michael to write a book, much less what he does with the money...it causes more anguish for her family. He should just leave it alone and get on with his life. The Schindler's have suffered enough!
Yeah, they suffered so much that they wrote their own book. Cashin' in time.
You got a problem with parents that love their children?
No, the problem is with parents that use their children, for profit.
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