Terri Schiavo Revisited

I have kept a link to Terri'sFight.org on my website because I am so appalled by what happened to her. In fact I have kept it, in it’s original salmon color, front and center, right near the top. I visit it now and then, to keep up with what the dedicated volunteers are doing on behalf of Terri and her family.

I couldn’t help but wonder a couple of things while Terri was dying.

Michael stated that she had said she would not want to live “that way.” Supposedly she said it while they were watching something on TV. I’m thinking maybe she did say such a thing. Somewhere in our youth many of us, maybe even me, may have said such a thing. It’s probably a safe bet the we would all have a real hard time finding anyone who would choose to live “that way.” But that does NOT mean that we would want to be denied treatment if “something happened” to us! And it does NOT mean that we would prefer to be starved and dehydrated to death rather than live to the best of our newly defined abilities in the loving care of friends and family! And it certainly does NOT mean that she gave her husband permission to get a court order to murder in full view of the public!

It has been said that there is no such thing as the “perfect crime.” The jury is still out, of course, but Michael Schiavo may have come close. He was able to get a court order to kill his mentally disabled but otherwise healthy wife in full view of the world, and nobody, from the local police to a group of protesters to hospital staff to her birth family to the President of the United States was able to stop him.