Terri Schiavo: October 2003 Archives

He Calls Himself a Man Part II

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The Transcript

KING: True, you have a girlfriend?

SCHIAVO: Yes. And I am very fortunate...

KING: Does it hurt the situation, do you think, as the way the public might look at you?

SCHIAVO: From their side, I'm sure. But you know something? I'm fortunate to have two women in my life that I love very much. My girlfriend right now has done more for Terri than her own mother did. She shopped for her. She washed her clothes.

KING: How do you feel about all this? In your gut, how do you feel? You could have walked away, Michael.

SCHIAVO: I could have. But I love my wife. And I'm going to follow her wish. And nothing's going to stop me.

KING: In fact, if she stayed in that state, let's say, you could get a divorce, couldn't you, easily?

SCHIAVO: I could have.

KING: And marry this girlfriend if you choose to?

SCHIAVO: I could.

KING: And I don't think anybody would be mad at you. Right? Who would be mad at you?

(CROSSTALK)

SCHIAVO: This is between Terri and myself. I'm not asking anybody to be mad at me. I'm not asking anybody to agree with me.

KING: But I mean, but one might say putting it bluntly, who needs this?

Thank you Mr Luse for the link.

And He Calls Himself a Man?

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I cannot find a transcript online yet since the show ended a few minutes ago, so I am doing this from memory. When Michael Schiavo was asked about his girlfriend he said something like "I am very fortunate to have two women in my
life who I love." I feel sick.
Update:I had nightmares over this last night. I only watched it briefly out of curiosity. When I hear or know someone who for whatever reason feels they have the right to play God with people's lives, I often wonder what it is about them that makes them feel so much more special than anyone else. I mean, was he like so much more divinely hotter looking, or smarter or sumthin' sumthin'? Well, maybe to himself, I dunno. He looked creepy to me. He looked like one of those men that would be online behind you at Starbucks making slightly off colored jokes in his girlfriend's ear within ear shot as if to say "guess what, we have sex!" and that I would give dirty looks to for invading my hearing zone, and would give me "oh lighten up already looks in return." Dontcha hate it when that happens? Anyway, a bit of digression there.

In that snippit I tried to quote (again, working from memory here), Larry asked him something like "You could have divorced Terri and married your new girlfriend. No one would blame you in this situation. Why haven't you?"
Slime Boy:"Because I made a promise to her to let her die."

Woohoo, I normally like a guy who promises to give me the world, and rings and love, and you know, happy stuff. Oh but this guy promised "death".

And oh how noble! He gets his girlfriend but he is a loyal and loving husband because he will not divorce his poor wife because she needs to die. America is buying this crap?

Death stuff aside, if my husband had a girlfriend, and said to me "I cannot divorce you because I promised to support you..." or some other BS like that, well the benefit is women not imprisoned in Hospice Care homes can use their boots...

I am just so, you know, ugh! I just cannot believe the stuff he said and how people think this is noble. This world has gone stark raving mad.

Sorry how this blog was supreme rant and lacked any kind of form whatsoever. As I am writing this my husband is telling me to stop bidding on ebay and my boys are throwing toys at each other. Another day...

Updated Update:
Hey Victor, I think my Starbucks guy and your "I want my new truck" guy are one in the same.

Terri updates

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Pressed for time, so please allow me to direct you to Thrown Back(including this great reflection on the value of Terri's life), Catholic Light, and Apologia for the latest.

UPDATE: Some great new links from Terrisfight.org:

Dr Jane Orient's statement on behalf of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (emphasis added):

“Terri Schindler-Schiavo has won a temporary stay from execution by a method too cruel to be used for convicted criminals. And yet her husband’s attorney is trying to spin it into a “death with dignity issue” with his comments on Tuesday.

“He says it’s cruel to begin rehydration. The opposite is true – dehydration is a
cruel, painful death. It is unconscionable that the state would have allowed removal of her feeding tube in the first place—it’s nothing less than state-sponsored euthanasia...."

Florida agency for protecting the rights of the disabled to investigate allegations of abuse

Heart attack? or trauma? Greta Van Sustern interviews a forensic pathologist on Terri's case. (Some have speculated that Terri had an eating disorder that led to a potassium deficiency; he does not address this possibility.)

From the comments box

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Scott leaves this comment on one of our older posts on Terri:

Well I have only recently become familiar with this case however i am split on my thoughts. I Feel for all people involved with this situation. and pray for their grief. I have expressed in the past to my spouse that i would not want to live like teri's condition or any condition where i was unable to continue to feed myself or take care of myself and have never felt the need to discuss this with my parents this legislative ruling shows not only should i do that but perhaps put in some sort of order with the state clerk. Listening to her brother they have not had medical records or acess to doctors reports in the past 10 yrs perhaps there is more then they know at this point. May god allow the one that i entrust with my wishes make the decsion for me and not a body of lawmakers or any other party that thinks they have my best intrest in mind but rather the one that i share my deepest most inner thoguhts to on this subject and may he allow the others to grieve properly for their loss

Am I Missing Something?

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Mark Shea highlights some of the current articles who state is was "unconstitutional" for the Governor, or anyone to intervene in allowing Terri to starve to death. OK, no matter what you think about the immoral "Right to Die" stance, in my opinion, it is stupid that anyone should starve to death in American today. It is despicable to force someone to starve to death. Even if it were Terri's last wish (yeah right) like her husband claimed to "die with dignity", the law has a right to jump in and say "well, tough cookies, people are not put to death from starvation on this country."

What kind of society are we coming to where this can be justified?

OK, I have to find something lighthearted and meaningless to blog about. I am disgusted about the attitude I am reading and am even reading Catholics who support this. My gag reflex needs to calm down.

More on "More on Terri's Removal"

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Maybe he could resign as guardian, Terri's parents take up the guardianship, they get Terri into rehab, and then sue him for the rehab money that got spent on lawyers. How delicious!

With a spoon!

More on Terri's Removal

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World Net Daily has picked up the story.

UPDATE 10:00 AM: ABC radio news is reporting that Michael Schiavo "reportedly" is considering giving up the legal fight. Give it up, Michael! Just divorce Terri and go marry your children's mother. And tell the goon squad to lay off the elderly priest, okay?

Maybe he could resign as guardian, Terri's parents take up the guardianship, they get Terri into rehab, and then sue him for the rehab money that got spent on lawyers. How delicious!


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