Terri Schiavo's Brother: Misinformation About Her Euthanasia Death Remains

Life News ^ | 4/10/08 | Steven Ertelt

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Princeton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler has been on a speaking tour this week that's taking him to colleges and universities across the country. Schindler was at Princeton University on Tuesday and he told students there that misconceptions still exist about his sister's euthanasia death.

Terri died in March 2005 after her former husband won a court order to take her life despite requests from the Schindler family to provide her with medical and rehabilitative care.

Though more than three years have passed since the Schindler family's lost their years-long legal battle to save her life, Schindler says the public still wrongly believes some of the misnomers that appeared in the media.

Though Terri was not on artificial respiration and not in a persistent vegetative state, Schindler told the students many Americans still think that was the case and that Terri had no interaction with his family and that she had some sort of terminal illness.

Though “much confusion still exists about Terri’s condition, Terri was not terminal or dying, and her brain injury was not going to cause her to die,” Schindler said, according to a Daily Princeton report.

He said Michael Schiavo, who is now remarried to the woman he dated during the debate over Terri's life, also made up his mind about Terri's condition without basing his opinion on the facts.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that Michael [Schiavo] fabricated the [death] wishes and that his brother and sister did as well and that they perjured themselves in front of the judges,” the newspaper said Schindler said.

Schindler told the students he's worried about the long-lasting effects of the debate surrounding his sister and that more Americans will see disabled people like Terri as a "non-person."

“There is no such thing as a person who is a non-person. There is no one so disabled that they have lost their value or dignity,” Schindler said. He said such a view would be akin to “walk[ing] down the same path that led to the Nuremberg trials.”

“Once you achieve emotional distance from people who are ‘different’ from you, it is easy to look the other way while they are being killed,” he added.

Ultimately, according to the Princeton newspaper, Schindler said Americans need to stand up and fight for the disabled, terminally ill and others who are in jeopardy of becoming the next victims of euthanasia.

“We need to fight today to protect those among us who need our care,” Schindler said. “It’s our dream in the future that legal bigotry against the disabled will be as taboo as insulting someone’s ethnicity."

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org

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The Islamofascists feel the same way about their religion.

Again, one of the left's favorite retorts.

[wagglebee]

I missed alot here since yesterday. Good job all !

I had to go to dinner with some friends last night and (as usual) missed all the fireworks.

I think one of the things that really bothered me is that the banned troll is involved in the care of special needs children. I wonder how many unsuspecting parents of the children the troll cares for realize that the troll would obediently kill their child the moment any judge signed an execution order.

[MHGinTN]

Oh but the troll's ilk do not consider keeping food and WATER away from a disabled person to be killing them. It takes a particularly twisted mind (the natural product of liberalism, BTW) to dissociate starving and dehydrating a living person from killing that person.

[8mmMauser]

I rushed to compose the rest of my thoughts after my last parry and thrust, but the bolt came with swift righteousness! FV got in a last lick and that was it, just ozone and troll smell.

What I was composing included my deep rooted concern about those who deal with our handicapped children and I have seen his kind before in our own battles. We realize many parents of such children set up their own shields of denial, allowing vermin to propagate and to harm their kids without even a glimmer of realization. These types even come to expect the distant complacency and count on it.

We have stories bordering on the unbelievable about such critters.

You should have cancelled your dinner and stuck around!

Heh

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I’ve got a Blackberry, but I think it would be rude to be on it all during dinner just to stomp on a botfly.

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If food and water are considered “life support” and ANY judge can sign an order that food and water can be forcibly withheld, then we are ALL in a great deal of trouble.

As I mentioned yesterday, NO JUDGE has the constitutional authority to sign a death warrant unless the condemned has by convicted by a jury following a grand jury indictment. The Fifth and Sixth Amendments are very clear on this, there is no room for interpretation.

[MHGinTN]

Such people also turn up in Nursing homes. And they sometimes have faulty calculations.

When my father was in a nursing home but still able to walk and reason yet unable to talk or immediately understand what was spoken to him, a male 'nurse' tried to get sexual with him one day. My father did what he did to the two punks who tried to rob him in the parking lot of his apartment complex one evening many years before ... he grabbed the perp and beat him senseless. The perp was found with his penis still covered in a prophylactic and caught in his pants zipper. No charges were brought or any other retribution leveled against my father, and he was afforded more interactive care thereafter, allowing him to go to patients' rooms and wheel their wheel chairs to the cafeteria at meal times.
Frankly, the perp is fortunate that my father did such a good job on him ... had he escaped the punishment, I was more than willing to send him to Hell to end his abuse of the elderly. He's in prison until parole or 2018. If he lives that long, he'll be a whole lot less able to abuse anyone, much less an ex-basketball player who was raised on a farm and walked all over Europe as an older man before a series of TIAs.

[wagglebee]

Do you honestly want debate on this topic, or do you prefer that everyone rubber stamp your opinion in response?

The thing with a debate is that is presupposes that both sides are valid and that either side can legitimately win if they argue their position better.

So no, when the case involved good vs. evil, there should not be any debate.

I am offering my sincere opinion on the matter.

NOBODY is questioning the "sincerity" of the culture of death in pursuing their evil agenda.

Well, I am pro-life. I do not believe in abortion. I wouldn't be involved in any abortion. If my wife tried to have an abortion, outside of the pregnancy being a threat to her life, I would do everything within my power to prevent it from happening. The same goes for my daughters.

Yet you refuse to tell over one million women each year that they are making the wrong decision.

That business aside, the matter is legally closed. That is why I urge everyone to move on and let her rest in peace.

Again this is being done at the EXPRESS WISHES of Terri's family.

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The trolls never seem to understand that the ONLY SCHIAVO we care about was murdered three years ago, therefore the term “Schiavonista” is not only inappropriate it is inaccurate.

[MHGinTN]

I don’t think that came out the way you wanted it to ... I know you care about Terri’s Mom, Dad, sister, and brother. We all do and are appreciative of their continuing efforts to stop this evil advance of euthanasia.

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I don’t think that came out the way you wanted it to ... I know you care about Terri’s Mom, Dad, sister, and brother.

Exactly, they are Schindlers.

[bjs1779]

I remember that. The bump is a dance. Is it still in style?

It sure is. Probably right up there with the Foxtrot!

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therefore the term “Schiavonista” is not only inappropriate it is inaccurate.

They are still sore for being called "Nazis", which is appropriate and accurate.

[Mr. Silverback]

Yep, I noted that but figured it wasn’t worth trying to educate her when she claimed to not even have a clue that the woman wasn’t on life support. I still like Schlindertruppen, myself. :-)

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They are still sore for being called "Nazis", which is appropriate and accurate.

Exactly!

”This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the people 60,000 Reichmarks during his lifetime. People, that is your money. Read ‘New People’.”

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Yep, I noted that but figured it wasn’t worth trying to educate her when she claimed to not even have a clue that the woman wasn’t on life support.

Or in a coma.

The Schiavonistas are Mikey and his ilk.

[BykrBayb]

I remember how disruptive those trolls were. There was a particular group of them known as the Harpies. Most of them got themselves banned in the infamous Bugzapper Thread. It’s not difficult to find their old posts in a simple search engine. Some of the ones who remain are now pretending they always supported Terri, even though their hateful posts are still easy enough to find. Know what I mean?

[JACKRUSSELL]

This is one of the reasons that it terrifies me to think of this country having universal government health care. Euthanasia will become standard practice in the name of saving money.

[bjs1779]

Ah, the good old days. I would imagine that they would kill to get a look at Terri's smoke.

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FReepers who claim to be conservative bring it up even when there is ABSOLUTELY NO INDICATION that money is an issue.