Terri Schiavo's family announces book plans

AP ^ | 9/27/05 | Mitch Stacy

[Hildy]

...parents are giving the money to the foundation to help brain damaged people.

Yea, and I've got some waterside property to sell you. The fact is that they're both cashing in. After all, it's the American way.

[Hildy]

Changed your opinion? Really? You honestly didn't see this coming?

[ReignOfError]

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.

Imagine my surprise. You'll have to imagine.

"For the first time ever, they will share their love and sorrow, joy and pain, and some shocking revelations

Mein Gott im Himmell, you mean there's something they haven't shared yet? 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."

[blaquebyrd]

Although I didn't agree with them I felt for them from the standpoint of a parent. As a parent I could never seek to make cash off of my child's death.

[Constitution Day]

Get over it.

BTW, I'm not going to hit abuse over your veiled profanity.
(That was so Christian of you.)

[flaglady47]

I may add, the organization I work for is helping them out with this foundation. You have no clue what you are talking about.

You don't know diddly squat. Go look up who all of the officers of the Foundation are. It's the entire Schindler family.

[Natty Boh III]

What is your obsession with whether or not Michael Schiavo is donating anything to charity? It's irrelevant. That has absolutely nothing to do with the allegation that the Schindlers are cashing in on their daughters death.

[Constitution Day]

BTW, what sort of shrine do you build for that?

The largest one possible, and with Other Peoples' Money, naturally.

[b4its2late]

They have to counter what the slimeball husbands' book will say.

[blaquebyrd]

"I may add, the organization I work for is helping them out with this foundation.

How big is your cut?

[yellowdoghunter]

I don't blame the Schindlers one bit for writing a book. They had to watch their daughter starve to death, slowly. (I know some freepers say it is a pleasant experience, but I don't buy it). Terri was their daughter.

People on here are stating as FACT that they will pay themselves huge salaries out of the charity. That is speculation, not FACT! Yes, it is a possibility, but it has NOT happened.

[newzjunkey]

Of course they are not going to promote the book by saying, "Give us your cash to assuage your guilt for not saving Terri!" "Donating profits." That's *profits* which they may or may not see and specifically excludes their advances for telling their yarn.

You think they're doing this for free? Even those profits are going to their own foundation. They're on the foundation's board. They couldn't find an existing foundation? Kind of curious, don't you think? Stop being a sucker.

[yellowdoghunter]

Have we seen the check stubs the Schindlers have wrote to themselves or are you just speculating that they are going to make a bunch of money?

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri September Dailies

8mm

[wideawake]

They're not making a dime.

[Zeroisanumber]

I'm writing a book about my experiences with Terri Schiavo too, it's called: How to Keep Bloodsucking Political Hacks away from Your Deathbed.

[Hildy]

How big is your cut?

I'd like to know that myself!

[queenkathy]

They have to counter what the slimeball husbands' book will say.

Exactly! I would hate to get just MS idea of what happened, colored with lies and 1/2 truths. My mother taught me that when there are 2 stories, the truth lies somewhere in the middle usually. We need both stories.

[yellowdoghunter]

I wonder how much Michael will make off his book? Is he donating any to charity?

[frogjerk]

Mein Gott im Himmell, you mean there's something they haven't shared yet? 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."

Yes, why don't they just get over their daughters death already? She was just wasting money and was of no good to anybody...Everybody knows that Michael Schiavo was completely innocent and loved Terri so much he shacked up with another woman and had children by her. It hurt Michael so much that he terminated her life.

The fact of the matter is that she communicated her final wishes to Michael in her 20's (when everyone is planning for their eventual demise) that if she was ever incapacitated for an unknown reason, but not on a respirator, and could not feed herself, she wanted to be starved and dehydrated to a euphoric death.

--sarc