Michael Schiavo is a hero.
Despite threats, taunts, bribes, religious crazies, contracts on his life; despite moving on to have his own life, despite his love for his new woman and his children; despite the media frenzy where he was the chum for their attacks; despite the president and congress, the politicians and the big mouth nobodies who played to the cameras; despite the extreme and unending legal battles; despite the emotional and physical toll it took upon him; despite alienating his in-laws who once he loved and was loved back, despite the hell he lived in the past 15 years…
fulfilled a promise to his young wife
and released her from purgatory.
He is a hero of epic proportions.
Despite threats, taunts, bribes, religious crazies, contracts on his life; despite moving on to have his own life, despite his love for his new woman and his children; despite the media frenzy where he was the chum for their attacks; despite the president and congress, the politicians and the big mouth nobodies who played to the cameras; despite the extreme and unending legal battles; despite the emotional and physical toll it took upon him; despite alienating his in-laws who once he loved and was loved back, despite the hell he lived in the past 15 years…
fulfilled a promise to his young wife
and released her from purgatory.
He is a hero of epic proportions.
posted by mary bishop | 1:15 PM
9 Comments:
I totally agree. He deserves a medal.
I have to say it's a little romantic too, that he kept his promise to her so many years earlier and remained her personal steward protecting her from as much media bull shit and the misbegotten familial mishaps as he could.
MS could have done the easy thing and left her, taken the bribery money for his current family and just removed this whole mess from his life.
He did not.
What does he get for it? Tremendous medical bills that Medicare won't cover as well as unfair and scathing scrutiny of the religious zealots, media whores and various peoples with their hidden agendas NONE of whom had any monetary responsiblity for TS, none of whom even knew TS until it became (either monetarily or publicity-wise) fortuitous for them to do so.
TS said no tubes, MS said okay, and he honored that with all his might year after year...to honor her and their committment.
There are thousands of other people in beds in the PVS condition all over the country right now. Think about this: Why oh why was the TS case so special?
Hi charley, thanks for stopping by...
LB -- I would kill husband if he allowed me to live like that - he knows how I feel and I know that he would honor my request and ghoulish as it may seem, to me it also has a romantic element. That he loved me enough to make sure I had my wish.
In today's world of right-to-life fanatics, that wouldn't be allowed.
I wish we treated people like animals - that one little shot when all hope is gone.
As I said before, we have the right to life - why can't we have the right to death? It seems absurd.
I don't know that it was romantic, per se, but it is honorable. As for being an adulterer, who am I to talk? I'm an adulteress, after all. My ex has done everything possible to prevent my divorce - and it's a similar scenario if you're incapacitated. You can't get the divorce so you're stuck trying to move on with your life with that title attached to you. I don't begrudge him the opportunity to move on.
Let's face it, in sickness and in health does NOT mean the same thing as it once did. With modern technology came the new death: a coma with no brain activity. Alive but not alive.
I do think he deserves a medal for sticking up for her wishes when everyone else would deny them at a time when she was incapable of fighting for herself. I just hope and pray that someone will do that for me should I ever end up in such a state.
Looks like we all agree except our religious friend Strykeforce.
You are misinformed Mr. Badgers. Michael Schiavo didn't allow the media-mad, pugnacious *brother* in the room when Michael said his last goodbyes as her brother had already gotten into an altercation with the cop in the room.
Again, my deepest wishes that if you have no brain left, you are kept alive with tubes and wires and every kind of intervention known to mankind for eternity. I think they can do that -- just hook you up to enough machines that you would never die.
But, you would be quiet and not typing...not spreading misinformation and attempting to hurt people's feelings.
I've heard they found a way of freezing people's brains or something so they could be unfrozen later. Does anyone know anything about it? Sounds too much like sci fi to me...
if the pope didn't die we'd still be seeing the schivo name all over the tube
**breasts enlargement**
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