My aunt Wanda went into a vegetative state in 1962 giving birth to her second son. My uncle Bill did divorce her and get remarried... in 1984. He spent 20 years alone.
Michael Shiavo spent, what 2 years, before falling into bed with another woman.
Bill died in 2001, Wanda in 2002. Every single day he could, from 1962 to 2001, Bill visited Wanda in the Nursing Home and sat with her for uncounted hours. That is 39 years.
Michael first tried to kill Terri after 6 years.
Do I have some perspective on this? I think so.
I fully believed God blessed your Uncle Bill in ways unknown to others for his devotion to Wanda and for his selflessness.
I'm sorry, I have to correct you on that. He tried to kill her by denying her medicine for a urinary tract infection in 1993: three years after her unexplained injury, not six. He did this right after she was awarded $700,000 for her care and therapy -- he would have inherited the money, had she died, -- and he did it knowing that refusing to give her the antibiotics would kill her. All of this he admitted in sworn testimony.
P.S. Michael was taking the law into his own hands. It was decidedly illegal for him to deny medicine to Terri. The doctor and the medical facility refused to go along with it.
He confessed to having tried to kill her in a 1993 deposition. That's less than four years.