Why weren't they her wishes until after the malpractice suit? He couldn't remember them until testimony in 98. Took awhile for the memory to "come to him"?
from http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20372
In hearings leading to Greer’s 2000 decision, three people testified Terri would want to be removed from artificial life support, which at the time of her collapse did not include nutrition and hydration. Since Terri’s collapse in 1990, Florida lawmakers have broadened the definition of artificial life support to include nutrition and hydration. The three witnesses were Michael Schiavo, his brother and his sister-in-law, according to Barbara Weller, an attorney representing the Schindlers.
Terri’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, however, have said their daughter, a devout Catholic, would not want to be starved to death in violation of the church’s teachings --