Posted on 12/03/2006 3:03:26 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Theresa Marie Schindler was born to Robert and Mary Schindler on December 3, 1963. She was the first of three children the Schindlers would have.
Terri was a shy, but comical, child who had an affinity for music, animals and the arts. She kept a small circle of friends and was dear to schoolmates, neighboring families and her own extended family.
Following high school, Terri came into her own. She developed a knack for sketching and doodling. She enjoyed outings with her friends. She was an adoptive mother to the family’s dog, Bucky.
Terri attended Catholic School while growing up and remained close to her faith throughout her life.
In 1983, Terri met Michael Schiavo at Bucks County Community College and the two began dating. He was the first romantic interest Terri had.
The couple was engaged within a few months and married a year later at Terri’s church in Southampton, Pa. She was 21.
In 1986, Terri and Michael relocated to Pinellas County, Florida and her parents followed three months later.
In 1990, at the age of 26, Terri suffered a mysterious cardio-respiratory arrest for which no cause has ever been determined. She was diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy – neurological injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. Terri was placed on a ventilator, but was soon able to breathe on her own and maintain vital function. She remained in a severely compromised neurological state and was provided a PEG tube to ensure the safe delivery of nourishment and hydration.
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of marked dehydration following more than 13 days without nutrition or hydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of the Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
Hodaka, if you want some good solid info, try this source.
Funny, justshutupandtakeit, that you say this about the investigation. It was filed as a cold case file at the time and remains so, today.
You can inform yourseves enormously on this case by pouring over all the documents and evidence in the compilation by Cheryl Ford, "Our Fight 4 Terri."
"To this day, Terri's case remains, according to calls made to the St. Petersburg Police Department, an unsolved, uninvestigated, OPEN, COLD CASE file in the HOMICIDE division of the St. Petersburg Police Department. They claim to have been ordered not to investigate it, or any other complaints involving Michael Schiavo, "...at the dcirection of the State Attorney's office and Judge Greer."
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8mm
What murder? Terri was alive and according to Michael's own lawyers, functional to a degree.
It is the complete exaggerations that I comment on. Your leg is not going to get you "executed" that is just silly.
Calling a society which spends billions on the medical care of the lowest bums off the streets, which puts forth incredible effort to save premature babies, desperately ill patients, criminals shot by other criminals "Pro Death" is simply a total falsehood. NO society in the entire history of mankind has EVER treated the ill and sick with as many resources as does ours.
No one says Terri was not "worthy to live". But the decision to remove the feeding tube was based on the conviction of the Court (which had NO interest in the case other than legal ones) that nothing but further degeneration was going to occur. IT was convinced there was no chance of anything but a further lingering death and in no way was the tool of the husband. It may have been wrong but to attack the judge as a "murderer" or part of some gigantic conspiracy is wrong. To attack the doctors as murderers is wrong. To attack those who do not see this the same as you as Pro Death is wrong.
And resources must be considered. There simply are not an infinite amount available to do EVERYTHING that could be done for everybody forever. There is nothing heartless about this. They must be used efficiently for the good of all of us.
That's why when people say move on it's quite ridiculous. hostage woodside was like a movie set.
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That is a perfect example of a crackpot legal theory. Few people have ever been given the protection and consideration of the law that Terri had. Years of hearing and expert opinions were involved.
The Fugative Slave Law has as much to do with Terri as does Santa Claus. And this nut says
"Not only am I convinced that judicial impeachment applies here, I am convinced that it applies to every federal judge in the chain from the district court judge who first received the case under the act signed by President Bush, through the appeals judges of the 11th Circuit, to all nine sitting members of the U.S. Supreme Court, with the exception of the one or two judges that bucked the system."
This is sheer insanity and any law school which hires him as a teacher is perpetrating fraud on its students.
Thanks for posting this ludicrous writing. Nothing indicates the sheer ridiculousness of some of the people here better than that. It gives new scope to the word "crackpot".
What is the matter with you? Obviously Furman joined the Million Man Conspiracy and has gone over to the Dark Side.
Excuse me, where did I claim it was murder? I don't think it was -- not the original assault, at least. It had all the earmarks of a crime of passion. Involuntary manslaughter, had Terri died.
The malpractice case was in 1992-93. Nobody DID know what caused Terri's "collapse" at the time. Many of Terri's medical records were made available later. It took something like 11 years before Terri's 1991 bone scan was released, and then it was only by accident. Iow, highly important records were hidden. Schindler attorney Patricia Anderson pointed out that had the accused doctors' attorneys had access to the bone scan, they could have had the malpractice case thrown out on the spot.
I didn't say sentence to followed from sentence one. There was NO evidence at the scene of any violence committed against Terri. Police had access to any medical information. None of the doctors felt there was any evidence sufficient to contact the police after tests and evaluation by medical professionals.
If a person is brought to the hospital and the doctors find something suspicious or indicative of a physical attack of any sort they immediately call the police into it. Why wasn't this done?
Blood tests indicating oxygenation problems would be expected in a person whose heart stopped. That does not indicate violence.
Were there any broken or fractured bones in Terri's body?
Did anyone hear screams that night indicative of a person being beaten? Or thrashing about? Screams of pain? NO there were not.
Somehow the attending physicians did not come to the same conclusion as the FReeper doctor. Why would they cover up a crime committed by a man they didn't know or give a crap about? Just makes no sense, sorry.
No rehabilitation.
If he beat her leading to her death it would hardly be involutary manslaughter. It would be second degree murder.
Why in God's name would ANYONE in 1992-3 hide medical evidence for a NOBODY? Who would go out on a limb for MS when there was NOTHING for them to gain by it and everything (including their freedom) to lose. You think becoming an accessory after the fact to murder is something people do lightly?
Sorry but these speculations are just too bizarre for me to accept.
Terri had a trust fund in her name to provide her care. Do you know where most of her money went?
Crist made his strong stance on civil rights a centerpiece of his campaign, telling the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel the day after the Republican primary, "This is the first day of this campaign and there are differences. I think I've been a leader in civil rights, and I think that's important as we move forward."
(What if Terri were black? Naw. Judge Greer and Judge Whittemore are Crist's heroes. Four years of b.s. ahead for Floridians).
Yes.
I am sorry. I do not agree. Resources are available, especially today. One thing leads to another. It may outrage you now thinking that a person with a bum leg could be targeted for death. When we agree that someone else gets to decide our fate, we can't always say that the people, will have control of what courts decide. Its like when you give an inch, someone will take a mile. YOU, may no longer be able to control this. It could cause you great sorrow. It is easy to let go of a person like Terri, you, have never been in her position. God help you if you are. Quality of of Life? People that are physically fit often have no quality of life. How is this determined? One mans quality may differ from anothers. All I will say to you is that you, will not be able to persuade me in the notion that kllling someone by not providing food and water is just. If that was the case, I would not feel a bit bad for the people in Darfur. If they cannot provide and protect themselves, then they deserve death. Absolutely no one should intervene!
I don't think he did beat her, though her injuries were consistent with a beating or a severe auto wreck.
>> Why in God's name would ANYONE in 1992-3 hide medical evidence for a NOBODY?
Michael hid the documents, or some documents. Terri was his ward. He could and did control her records. He is also alleged by several nurses to have tampered with their med charts. What has the "nobody" got to do with it? The bone scan was incriminating. Maybe other documents were too.
Quite a few of Terri's medical records have never been made public. They may be hidden, or may have been destroyed or lost over the years. Nobody seems to know.
But then, some keep coming to light. Gary Fox had a bunch of old files that helped the M.E., Dr. Thogmartin, with his autopsy. Maybe others will surface.
And what is unusual about domestic violence? It is, to repeat, the most common cause of injury and death in young women. It's the first place to look. Columbo would have told you that :-) Remember how hormonal we were when we were a bit younger?
Did you see his #270? He didn't even know she had any broken bones or accusations of them. That is what you are arguing with.
George took about five or six times as much as Deborah. He must be a male chauvinist pig.
But then, Miss Bushnell led the way. She was charging her long distance phone calls to Terri's trust fund before Felos was ever involved in the case. The nerve! It was Terri's rehab and therapy money, held in trust. And the nerve of judges (this was before Greer, I think) to let their pet lawyers raid trust funds. That is embezzlement whether or not it has the approval of a judge.
Deborah Bushnell would do well to make peace with Higher Authority.
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