None of which has anything to do with the fact that Shiavo looked for therapies and they didn't work, whereas the firefighter was in therapy that was apparently doing something for him......
Terri Schiavo only received therapy for 7 yrs. Her husband pulled the plug when he himself decided they weren't doing any good..not the doctors or therapists. He decided that his vows "sickness and health" didn't apply and he really meant "as long as someone else is paying."
The firefighter received it for 9 years until it did him some good...it apparently worked for him as he woke out of it. Terri never got that chance...her husband was too busy with other things...
I know the Schiavo case fairly well since I had to keep directing people to the facts when they decided to ignore them in favor of rhetoric.
You knew the facts as much as you could comprehend them which appears to be very little...seems you overlooked a few...like this factual timeline of the case...
http://www.catholicexchange.com/...d=2&art_id=26177
Terri Schiavo only received therapy for 7 yrs. Her husband pulled the plug when he himself decided they weren't doing any good..not the doctors or therapists. He decided that his vows "sickness and health" didn't apply and he really meant "as long as someone else is paying."
The firefighter received it for 9 years until it did him some good...it apparently worked for him as he woke out of it. Terri never got that chance...her husband was too busy with other things...
I know the Schiavo case fairly well since I had to keep directing people to the facts when they decided to ignore them in favor of rhetoric.
You knew the facts as much as you could comprehend them which appears to be very little...seems you overlooked a few...like this factual timeline of the case...
- Terri’s collapse occurred in February 1990. Michael Schiavo blames the collapse on a potassium imbalance despite testimony by a neurologist that Terri arrived at the hospital with a neck injury. The Schindlers, Terri’s parents, theorize that Michael may have tried to strangle her.
- Michael Schiavo, his brother, and his sister-in-law claim Terri made “casual” statements that she would not want to be kept alive artificially. [Note: Under Florida law feeding tubes are considered artificial life support.]
- Statements attributed to Terri by her friend, Diane Meyer, about the Karen Ann Quinlan case was ruled by Judge Greer to not fit a factual time-line. Greer ruled that Terri could not have made those statements about Quinlan in 1982 as Meyer testified because Greer believed Quinlan died in 1976 when Terri was but 11 or 12 years old. [Note: Quinlan in fact collapsed in 1975 and after a considerable court battle was taken off her respirator only to continue breathing on her own. Quinlan died of pneumonia in 1985. An autopsy showed that her cardiac arrest had not caused severe damage to her cerebral cortex as doctors had thought but instead, the thalamus.]
- The Schindlers state that Michael never claimed Terri would not want to live- until after winning a $2 million malpractice settlement. Schiavo petitioned to have Terri’s feeding tube removed in 1998. In 1992, WND reports that Schiavo pleaded that he wanted to take care of his wife for the rest of her life and was studying nursing so that he could do so in their home. He asked for $20 million to cover her medical expenses and estimated her life expectancy to be 50 years.
- As reported by WND, Michael Schiavo told the court in 1992, "I believe in my wedding vows. ... I believe in the vows I took with my wife, through sickness, in health, for richer or poor. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I'm going to do that."
- A woman Schiavo reportedly dated for a year in 1992, Cindy Shook, gave the Schindlers a deposition in 2001 stating that Michael told her "How the hell should I know? We never spoke about this. My God, I was only 25 years old. How the hell should I know? We were young. We never spoke of this."
- Michael Schiavo is engaged to another woman and has had 2 children by this other woman.
- On the strength of Cindy’s testimony, Civil Court Judge Frank Quesada ordered Terri’s feeding tube reinserted in 2001.
- $1.3 million was placed in a medical trust fund to care for Terri. [Note: Electronic copies of affidavits from nurses and a physical therapist that that Michael Schiavo had ordered Terri not to receive rehabilitative therapy to include being taken outdoors, have windows open have a radio playing, have television, receive medical treatment for infections, or have her wheel chair repaired.]
- Michael was awarded $600 thousand to compensate him for his loss.
- Michael Schiavo’s primary attorney, George Felos, was paid fees totaling $358,434. A second attorney, Deborah Bushnell was paid $80,309. WND reports only $50 thousand of the malpractice award remains.
- WND continues on to report that in the early years when Terri did receive therapy she had progressed to the point that she would say “yes,” “no,” “mommy,” “stop that,” and express pain. [Note: Supported by electronic copies of affidavits.] Michael Schiavo insists that Terri has not spoken a word since 1990.
- In 2001, an appellate court ordered Terri reevaluated by 5 doctors- 2 selected by Schiavo, 2 selected by the Schindlers, and 1 selected by Judge Greer. The 2 petitioned by Schiavo’s attorney as well as the doctor petitioned by Greer testified that Terri remained in a persistent vegetative state. The doctors petitioned by the Schindlers testified that Terri was not in PVS. Interestingly enough, WND reported that one of the two Schiavo doctors was a medical ethicist and proponent of euthanasia, Ronald Cranford. WND goes on to report that Cranford is a member of the board of directors for the Choice In Dying Society that promotes doctor assisted suicide. He was also a guest speaker at the Hemlock Society, now called the End Of Life Choices. In 1997 Cranford wrote a piece for the Minneapolis Star Tribune titled “When A Feeding Tube Borders On Barbaric.”
- Court documents show that persistent vegetative state is misdiagnosed 40-60% of the time. [Note: Cranford may have misdiagnosed a policeman shot in the line of duty. Cranford reportedly diagnosed Sgt. David Mack as “definitely in a persistent vegetative state….never to regain cognitive, sapient functioning….” Sgt. Mack awoke some 20 months later and is reported elsewhere to have eventually gotten back nearly all of is mental faculties.]
http://www.catholicexchange.com/...d=2&art_id=26177
- Schindler’s attorney, George Felos is himself a right-to-die proponent and was the legal counsel for another high-profile Florida right-to-die case