A great article. You wrote:
"....if anybody has seen a video of Schiavo available on "Terrisfight.com", the video shows they will see that she is no way unconscious. An unconscious person is utterly unreactive in fact thats how its basically defined in Florida law."
"On one video a doctor is shown asking Terri, who has her eyes closed, "Please open your eyes, Terri" and her eyes flutter and open.
"In another video her mother comes over to her bed, leans down and says, "Hi, sweetie, how are you?" and Terri looks over, sees her mom and gets a huge smile on her face.
That, says Smith, is not a mere reflex; "that is recognition of a mother and the enjoyment of being loved. To say that shes unconscious is unconscionable."
Mr. Brennan, your readers will not/can not view the video on "Terrisfight.com", because the actual website is "terrisfight.org.".
Any chance you can let the NewsMax readership know where they can see for themselves the video you describe so well in your article?
Terri deserves it, and NewsMax readers do too.
I haven't seen the videos, but I tend to be somewhat skeptical of video evidence in such cases because there's no way to know what has ended up "on the cutting room floor".
That having been said, however, I find the behavior of those seeking Terri's elimination to be rather interesting. I'm curious, though, how the legalities of divorce would work in a case like this.
If Terri dies while still married to Mr. Schiavo, I think it's pretty clear that her husband inherits all the joint property. What happens if he divorces her first?
Playing devil's advocate here (and I'd welcome people explaining thoroughly why this does not apply) is it possible that Mr. Schiavo and/or his attourney perceives that Terri's family wants to snatch up Terri's portion of Mr. and Mrs. Schiavo's property? It would seem that if Mr. Schiavo were to divorce Terri, then a court would award her half of their combined wealth, and inheritance rules would hand it off to Terri's kin.
There are a number of scenarios I can see here: