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THE brother and sister of the late Terri Schiavo spoke in Toowoomba yesterday pushing one issue compassion.
Terri Schiavo was the subject of controversial debate after she suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest in 1990, leaving her in a severely compromised neurological state and reliant on a PEG tube for food.
Her fight for life made world head8lines when her husband Michael was appointed her guardian by the courts.
After years of legal battles with Terri's family, Mr Schiavo ordered the removal of his wife's feeding tube in 2001.
Counter-orders later instructed the PEG to be replaced; however, after a Supreme Court ordered it had to be removed in 2005, Terry Schiavo died following 14 days of severe dehydration.
Her siblings Bobby and Suzanne Schindler were invited to speak by the Queensland Right to Life Toowoomba branch yesterday.
"We're here just basically pushing compassion for people with cognitive disabilities like my sister had," Mr Schindler explained.
"We've got to be caring for these people, not trying to make it legal to kill them."
Mr Schindler said he had been following the assisted suicide debate in Australia and encouraged people to research the issue themselves.
"I don't think people realise just how much this is happening in the world," he said.
"And I'm afraid that it's getting worse. It's like we're losing our sense of compassion.
"I get asked one question all the time 'Who would want to live a life like a vegetable?' but the thing is these people, like my sister, are living and no one else can make the decision to end their lives for them," Mr Schindler explained.
"This debate is happening pretty much everywhere and unfortunately a lot of people don't understand, but we're going to keep pushing it.
"This issue didn't die with my sister."
The Schindlers have created a foundation in memory of their sister to help other families going through similar situations.
They will travel to Sydney to speak tomorrow before heading back to their home in Florida.
Compassion comes first;it can't be legal to kill
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The June 19, 2008 headline reads “US doctors kill skin cancer with cloned T-cells.” Does this suggest that human cloning of embryonic stem cells has been successful in treating skin cancer? Absolutely not!
The details of the New England Journal of Medicine
report that generated this news coverage reveal that adult stem cells obtained from the patient were used.....
Media Cover Up Adult Stem Cell Research Success With Misleading Terms
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And this is how the deathbots marginalize people.
Who would want to live deaf?
Who would want to live blind?
Who would want to live mute?
Who would want to live black?
Who would want to live as a Gypsy?
Who would want to live as a Jew?
I seem to remember a certain group of Germans asking these very same questions back in the 1940s and reaching the same conclusion that Schiavo, Greer, Felos, et al, did.
Helen Keller achieved more deaf, mute and blind than 99% of the people in the world will ever achieve.