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14 Years After They Starved My Sister to Death, We Must Never Forget Terri Schiavo
Lifenews.com ^ | 3/29/19 | Bobby Schindler

Posted on 03/29/2019 6:41:19 PM PDT by OddLane

Every year, I write to honor my sister, Terri Schiavo, on March 31st, the anniversary of her death. For those who do not remember, Terri, at the age of 26, experienced a still inexplicable collapse resulting in a severe brain-injury. As a consequence of her brain injury, she was unable to swallow using conventional utensils, and like many Americans required nutrition and hydration by feeding tube in order to live.

Terri did not have a medical directive specifying who would make her health care decisions in the event she was incapable of making them herself. Therefore, it was her husband, Michael Schiavo, who was appointed by the court to be her medical caretaker and was ostensibly the only person who would decide what type of care, if any, Terri would receive.

Initially, my family did not anticipate this would be an issue. But that changed after Michael obtained a million-dollar medical malpractice settlement on Terri and his behalf. Before the settlement, Michael discussed continuing rehabilitation. Afterwards, he tried to deny her antibiotics when Terri came down with a urinary tract infection. But when my family sued, he relented...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; terrischiavo
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To: DoodleBob

Chap stick? Huh? What? LOL!


21 posted on 03/29/2019 7:22:38 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Donnafrflorida

Bless you and all the others.


22 posted on 03/29/2019 7:23:13 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: SkyDancer

May he burn in hell.


23 posted on 03/29/2019 7:24:20 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: OddLane

24 posted on 03/29/2019 7:26:23 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: OddLane

Boy was that a fight here whew


25 posted on 03/29/2019 7:26:28 PM PDT by wardaddy (If we donÂ’t get some high ranking convictions from this failed coup....then they still won)
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To: OddLane

This showed the callousness of the state in thinking denying sustenance to someone was justified because death was euphoric...

Government is truly evil


26 posted on 03/29/2019 7:32:54 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Innovative

Also remember that unbelievable as it sounds, Jesse Jackson sided with the Schindler family.


27 posted on 03/29/2019 7:37:59 PM PDT by PallMal
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To: OddLane

Did her a$$hole “husband” ever let her family know where she is buried?


28 posted on 03/29/2019 7:47:20 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: OddLane

I mentioned Terri in a thread here just yesterday. We have tolerated abortion, the murder of Terri, an innocent invalid (and many others), and now we’re tolerating infanticide. We speak up, but that’s all we do, and it has no effect.
The murder of helpless people is now legal. We even pay for it with our tax dollars in some cases, and we do not withhold our taxes in protest.
The Founders resisted paying taxes for a breakfast beverage when they believed they were treated unfairly.
We have come a long way.


29 posted on 03/29/2019 8:17:38 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: OddLane

Bump


30 posted on 03/29/2019 8:28:43 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: tflabo

Jeb did try to help but he didn’t take that last bold step of bravery to save her. He caved in to the murderous weasels when he could have been a hero and taken control of the situation with his authority as governor. Oh well...
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They also appealed to Jeb’s impotent brother, the “most powerful man in the world” and he too was too chicken s.hi.t to do anything. 2 pathetic weasels.


31 posted on 03/29/2019 9:11:48 PM PDT by BarbM ( President Trump: MAGA)
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To: BarbM

I said at the time that I would remember that if Jeb ever tried to run for higher office. Apparently he thought people have short memories...


32 posted on 03/29/2019 9:16:22 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: DoodleBob

Well I hope her sorry excuse for a husband has had a miserable life as well as the courts that allowed this. Her parents and family were willing to take over her care....just damn


33 posted on 03/29/2019 9:36:16 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: ryderann

34 posted on 03/29/2019 9:47:39 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Innovative

Her husband cold cocked her as she was exiting the bathroom.


35 posted on 03/29/2019 9:55:02 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: OddLane

BTTT in memory of Terri Shiavo.


36 posted on 03/29/2019 9:56:22 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Dawgreg

the similarity to Dave Davis of Hillsdale County, Michigan is striking. He took out insurance policies on his wife of two days. He injected her with a muscle relaxant that broke down to undetectable metabolites. He bashed her head on a rock saying she fell from a horse. The family believed none of it. A State Trooper kept on the case, and finally there was a test to determine where the metabolites came from. Dave ran, but was eventually found in American Samoa. He is serving life. I always wondered if Terry’s husband had researched the same chemicals, but didn’t get the job done. look up Dave Davis of Hillsdale, Michigan.


37 posted on 03/29/2019 10:12:27 PM PDT by healy61
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To: OddLane

Wasn’t there someone here on the boards who was related to her, back then?

To this day, that poor woman’s death haunts me.

There are some things one never gets over, especially when its traumatic and unjust. You just learn to live along side of it because it never, ever goes away.

I do hope and pray her loved ones have found some semblance of peace in their broken hearts.

And I hope someday, when we all rise from the dead, that that family can all rejoice together.


38 posted on 03/29/2019 10:13:49 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Make sure you get a private doctor outside the hospital system to advise you on what food, fluids, tests and interventions are needed if he goes into the hospital. Too often the staff doctors of hospitals under treat, test, and hydrate and nourish to save money. They would rather a medicare patient die than discharge and have them return. The hospitals get fined for certain returns. Medicare often does not pay for vigorous treatment.so you have to sign a waiver so if medicare fails, you can pay.

Our health care system is vicious.

39 posted on 03/29/2019 10:22:35 PM PDT by amihow (Nd)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"I’ll never forget and I will NEVER forgive that POS Jeb Bush for her MURDER!"

Diana - I'm with you on that. I will never forget, either!

40 posted on 03/29/2019 11:12:02 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (Jesus drove a Honda,but didn't talk about it:"For I did not speak of my own Accord"John 12:49(KJV))
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