Terri Schiavo has never been comatose!!!
She is not on a respirator or other such equipment. Cost cutting in Nursing Homes has led to the elimination of manually feeding patients by simply attaching a feeding tube to them. Terri been on a feeding tube for so many years, that she would now require therapy to begin oral consumption once again.
Her adulterous husband, Michael Schiavo (MS) ( he has been bedding with another woman by whom he's had two children) refuses any and all medical attention he promised he would give to her. The promise was made to a jury that awarded him more than a million dollars:
- to care for her;
- compensation him for the absence of his wife, and
- provided for his educational expenses for him to become a nurse ( He said he wanted to be near her and care for her himself.)
The jury bought his lies, and the courts have refused to hold him to his lies. He became a nurse, but the alleged quest to be a loving and caring husband ended with the banking of the jury award.
After banking the money he had a total recall about Terri wanting to die than be a burden to others. His desire for the death of his wife was endorsed by a local judge. The judge decreed Terri should be starved to death.
This is what Terri's family have been fighting for the past six or so years. He family wants to take care of Terri, and have the court remove MS as her legal guardian. The courts don't give a damn that he's a lying adulterer.
As of late, he has refused any of Terri's family, her priest or friends to visit her for the past 45+ days. All they know about her condition comes from MS's attorney. The one and only medical update they've received during this period is one piece of communication. A number of teeth were extracted, they were told. That was the advisement in total.
Oh yea, one more thing. MS just informed Terri's family they could visit Terri, provided they pay a fee to cover costs related to security that must be present during the time they are with Terri.
American prisons/jails don't even require a 'fee' to visit a criminal. Nor does a prison place a person in solitary confinement if they've done no wrong. But this is Florida, and the Florida courts have given MS absolute and complete control over the person of Terri Schiavo.
The judge that gave MS total authority over a woman who can not speak, and ordered her murder by starvation is now up for re-election. For more info on how you can support his opponent scroll the tread Judge Who Ruled Terri Schiavo Should Die Faces Election Challenge to my post # 65 for further details.