Posted on 12/03/2006 3:03:26 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Theresa Marie Schindler was born to Robert and Mary Schindler on December 3, 1963. She was the first of three children the Schindlers would have.
Terri was a shy, but comical, child who had an affinity for music, animals and the arts. She kept a small circle of friends and was dear to schoolmates, neighboring families and her own extended family.
Following high school, Terri came into her own. She developed a knack for sketching and doodling. She enjoyed outings with her friends. She was an adoptive mother to the family’s dog, Bucky.
Terri attended Catholic School while growing up and remained close to her faith throughout her life.
In 1983, Terri met Michael Schiavo at Bucks County Community College and the two began dating. He was the first romantic interest Terri had.
The couple was engaged within a few months and married a year later at Terri’s church in Southampton, Pa. She was 21.
In 1986, Terri and Michael relocated to Pinellas County, Florida and her parents followed three months later.
In 1990, at the age of 26, Terri suffered a mysterious cardio-respiratory arrest for which no cause has ever been determined. She was diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy – neurological injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. Terri was placed on a ventilator, but was soon able to breathe on her own and maintain vital function. She remained in a severely compromised neurological state and was provided a PEG tube to ensure the safe delivery of nourishment and hydration.
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of marked dehydration following more than 13 days without nutrition or hydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of the Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
One could take that stance, but for some reason THIS family became part of the public discourse on issues of life and death. Hundreds of kids go missing every year, but for some reason Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping became part of the public consciousness. That's the way it is. For various reasons certain situations come to symbolize the core of a debate on an issue or just capture the public's interest more than others.
I think this case became public because Michael Schaivo is a publicity hound, and fashions himself a player in politics (for the Democrats, as it turns out.) I don't think anything proves his egotistical nature any more clearly than his absurd slap on the back to himself on her gravestone. What a creep he is!
(And, Pops looks like the Monopoly Man which is endearing to me.)
Prayers for you and your family.
God Bless
Suzanne is brainy and beautiful.
Happy New Year.
In contrast Michael the blood-thirsty media whore looks an awful lot like Stalin (at least in my opinion), or at the very least he looks like a really shady snake-oil salesman.
Jeb said it himself that he had "no future".
He certainly wouldn't get any support in an election from Terri's freepers or the hundreds of thousands of callers to his office begging him to save her.
An 80 dollar haircut caused serious injury to Terri, not bulimia.
Thanks, wagglebee.
I think it's silly to take the stance that she looked "beautiful" or the same after the episode that started her on the road that lead to her death. If one believes that life is precious, it's about the inside, the soul of a person if you will, not their outward appearance. This is why it's become harder and harder for me to support so-called "abortion rights" and the "right-to-die." How can anyone argue that the soul of a person ever is, or becomes irrelevant? If in a rational moment someone expresses to a relative, or their doctor, the wish to die rather than be kept alive by extraordinary measures, I have to respect that. But short of that rock-solid evidence of a person's intent, I think it becomes dicey. In this case, it all looked too much like a fed up caregiver ready to move on, whatever the cost. Schaivo's refusal to turn over care of Terri to her family was shocking IMO. He was hell-bent on ending his own agony, not Terri's. And he continually, even after her death, stuck a shiv in the backs of the Schindler family, happy to inflict whatever pain he could. A truly odious person, he is.
I saw beauty in her before, after, and even at the end because I saw beauty in her soul.
Who in their right mind would want a man as president when he didn't even have the courage to try to protect a woman in a hospital bed?
He always had the option of moving on, simply by divorcing Terri. The family begged him to. There was something more evil here than him being "fed up" or "ending his own agony." He had been cruel to Terri and hateful to the Schindlers over the years. You see the same evil when you say, "he continually, even after her death, stuck a shiv in the backs of the Schindler family, happy to inflict whatever pain he could." Michael was -- beyond a reasonable doubt -- moved by hatred when he killed Terri.
Money was also a motive. He wouldn't divorce her because her estate might be worth millions in book and movie and TV rights. Michael has always been a hound for easy money and if it's dishonest or if it profits from his wife's blood, why, so much the better.
Let's not forget that while she was being killed, Schaivo was offered $2 million by an outside party if he would just "walk away."
When he rejected this offer, the culture of death praised him and their media allies gleefully informed the world, "see he really does love her, it's not about the money to him."
The reality (at least in my opinion) was two-fold:
1. He NEEDED her to die because if she recovered, she would be able to tell the world that HE WAS THE REASON she was there in the first place.
2. He calculated that killing her and thereby becoming the sole heir to her estate and his book about killing her would net him far more than $2 million.
I respectfully disagree with you.
That's cool. :) It's just my opinion. We can agree to disagree on this one.
:)
Hi, fv -- prayers continue for you and your mother. more later.
Happy Birthday, Terri x 1000 :-)
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