I try to always be fair and listen and frankly in the end we may disagree but we do so based on an intellectual and respectful discussion. Which is what makes Free Republic great.
Why did it take 8 years for Mr Schiavo to bring up this no life support?????????????
Yeah, he's a regular Rocky Balboa. 'Hey Schindler, ya dawters wit me.!
Let's see. One side can just walk away. The other side cannot walk away without losing everything they value. Seems kind of clear who the villian is in this drama. Mike can just walk away. It is only his arrogant refusal to allow the parents to step in and take over the care of Terry that causes this crisis. Real simple answer Mike. Just walk away and let the parents take over instead of clinging with a chidlish arrogance to your own ego driven desire to posture, wrongfully, as some sort of Media "hero". The parent's cannot walk away, you can. Be a man for once in your life Mikey. Walk away rather then insisting on your own ego driven desire to impose YOUR will on everyone else.
Can you love someone enough to fight tooth and nail to make sure that their wishes are fulfilled, yet not love them enough to remain at least publicly faithful to them? Everything in this article says how much Michael loves Terri, but he doesn't love her enough to remain faithful to her. I understand that people get lonely and beaten down by situations like this, but if that happens the best way to show the disabled spouse some respect would be to divorce her, not make a mockery of your marriage vows.
I would rather have gone to heaven 15 years ago, then to remain in a persistent vegetative state.
"I try to always be fair and listen and frankly in the end we may disagree but we do so based on an intellectual and respectful discussion"
I would like to say, FMC, that I have supported you (in my own way) in the past and I couldn't agree more, in a sense, but I also know that Terri's husband hasn't done didly squat to help her.
It just makes me so sad.
Endangered tree frogs and sea turtles have more federal recourse to be 'heard' in the system then this disabled woman...where is the wisdom of Solomon?
Well, I think you're right that we should hear all sides. We must also judge what we hear from them on the various merits, motivations, and perspectives. I haven't followed this case as closely as some Freepers, so I'm not going to judge any of the players.
I will say that I find it very difficult to accept what is going on today from a societal standpoint. A just people doesn't starve people to death. We treat condemned prisoners better and we'd charge someone who treated an animal this way with a felony.
I do not see compassion in his heart for her plight for if he did possess on ounce of humane feeling he'd never kick Terry's family out of her hospice room. He'd never not want her to receive food and water.
And, most of all he would have let her parents who genuinely love their daughter see to her needs.
I'm sure he is striving for sympathy for his actions and justification for demanding she die in such a brutal and barbaric manner.
Thank you Former Military Chick.I eat at the Buck,my daughter almost went to Wood.I have friends in Florida right now fighting for her life.We will pray harder.
Thanks for this post.
Thanks....well done. It takes courage to present both sides of an ugly argument.
Semper Fi.
I agree. It's good to listen to what Michael Schiavo's supporters have to say. But I must say, I have quite a bit of trouble swallowing stuff like "It is Centonze, Scott Schiavo said, who now does all Terri's laundry." Huh? She is a full time resident in a hospice, being cared for by the hospice staff. Am I really supposed to believe that the staffers who change her hospital gowns collect them in a laundry basket and hold them for Jodi's weekly visit to pick up the dirty ones and drop off the clean ones she washed?
"So why not give it up, leave Terri's feeding tube in, let her parents care for her? After all, he is living with another woman now and they have two children."
"Because he's sticking by what he promised," Scott Schiavo, Michael's brother, said in a recent interview. "He wants to honor the last thing he can give to her."
I was thinking about what answer Micahel would give to the above question if he was ever asked....Lo and behold, the answer he gives is identical to the one I thought of.
A man who STARVES his wife to death is nothing but a rotten human being, period.
Yep...I'll bet he'll be happy to sit and make sure she's dead. That scum has spent all the money awarded to rehabilitate her on lawyers to sue to kill her. I only hope God repays him for this in spades.
If he brought his new lover to see Terri, I'd call that cruel and heartless. Clearly this man has no regard for his faith. He's unwilling to get a divorce yet has two children out of wedlock- and brings his lover to see his wife. This is just so incredibly sad...
where'd the money go?
The Philadelphia Inquirer maintains its unbroken record of shading the news to fit the leftist party line. Not many publications can bat a thousand, but the Inquirer can.
"Because he's sticking by what he promised," Scott Schiavo, Michael's brother, said in a recent interview. "He wants to honor the last thing he can give to her."
My thoughts: He picks and chooses which promises to keep.
His wedding vows, which he made before God and man, he completely disregards. But he INSISTS on keeping a promise (which he said he made in private and which cannot be proven) which will result in the killing of his disabled wife.
A poor rationalization for his desire to get rid of his wife. IMO