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Bobby Schindler is braver than I in boldly stepping into the Cornell-Ithaca New York environment. Doing so, he told the story of what happened to Terri, something recent trolls and run-of-the-mill misinformed seem not to want to understand.

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In 1998, Michael wrote the Schindler family a letter, explaining that he was petitioning the courts to remove his wife’s feeding tube.

Terri’s family opposed removal of the feeding tube. Michael, backed by his brother and sister-in-law, said Terri had made statements before she suffered brain damage that she would not want to live in such a condition.

“Our family was very naïve at what we were up against,” Schindler said. “The attitudes of our country [toward this issue] have been changed because of the influence of the media, judges, doctors and bioethics.”

Schindler said he was frustrated that the media portrayed his sister as bedridden and unable to be moved. In fact, Schindler said, had Terri been alive today, he could have brought her with him; she would have merely needed a wheelchair to be transported. Schindler emphasized that Schiavo was not connected to breathing stabilizers of any sort.

“My sister was not dying. She was physically as healthy as you and me,” Schindler said.

Schiavo’s Brother Faults Media

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How could it be otherwise? Another article out of Ithaca about Bobby Schindler's visit casts a slightly different tone, one equivocal, one that shows Mikey as more nifty, sympathetic, although ostensibly in support of the Schindlers.

Terri’s is a tale that I have long thought to be so tragic for so many reasons. Before passing away in a Florida hospice on March 31, 2005, Terri would transform from a beloved wife and daughter into a polarizing figure caught in the middle of a very bloody battle of beliefs that would end up ripping both a family and a nation apart.

For Terri

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