Michael Schiavo's side of the story
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Originally Posted by AmerLisa
.....geeze, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. ![Roll Eyes](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif)
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Originally Posted by AmerLisa
Please take a chill pill and quit reading the posts then.....geeze, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. ![Roll Eyes](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif)
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Originally Posted by neil
I know, I know - it's a combination of boredom (in Toronto on business in a hotel room with some work to finish off before more meetings tomorrow) and alcohol. Don't you ever just feel like getting riled up over something for the hell of it. I'm just interested to know why some people are so sure that they can take one persons side over another in a family argument when ultimately we'll never know for sure (and who was it who went to the media in the first place?).
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Originally Posted by elfman
so then Michael Schiavo is entitled to publish his opinions in a book if he feels like it?
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Originally Posted by AmerLisa
I don't care what he does - my question is why does he need to? Why stir up the past? Is it going to make a difference?
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I think that it was easy to villanize him because (by the time we knew about any of this) he had moved on and was with a new partner.
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Originally Posted by NC Penguin
You say you don't care so surely that nullifies the questions that follow in your post above...
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Originally Posted by AmerLisa
I don't care what he does - my question is why does he need to? Why stir up the past? Is it going to make a difference?
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1. Terry Schiavo - still dead
2. The whole thing - still a tragedy
3. The parents - still dicks
4. The husband - still smelling of roses
5. Bill O'Reilly - still a knobend
Maybe we should move on to the next tragedy
2. The whole thing - still a tragedy
3. The parents - still dicks
4. The husband - still smelling of roses
5. Bill O'Reilly - still a knobend
Maybe we should move on to the next tragedy
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Originally Posted by AmerLisa
I don't care what he does - my question is why does he need to? Why stir up the past? Is it going to make a difference?
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"Why don't you... turn off your TV set and go and do something less boring instead"
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Originally Posted by Patrick
1. Terry Schiavo - still dead
2. The whole thing - still a tragedy
3. The parents - still dicks
4. The husband - still smelling of roses
5. Bill O'Reilly - still a knobend
Maybe we should move on to the next tragedy
2. The whole thing - still a tragedy
3. The parents - still dicks
4. The husband - still smelling of roses
5. Bill O'Reilly - still a knobend
Maybe we should move on to the next tragedy
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Originally Posted by AdobePinon
"Why don't you... turn off your TV set and go and do something less boring instead"
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Originally Posted by TRPardoe
Who's the bigger twat ? Bill O'Reilly or someone who takes him seriously ?
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It does seem like it's dragging on,the poor woman is dead and gone,but at the same time I do feel quite bad for him,it seems like his name was dragged through the dirt,but from what I understand,he did stand by Terri....personally I think he did the right thing...it wasn't fair to her to keep her going,when, for all intents and purposes,she was dead already.
Who had the right to make decisions for Terri?,surely it was her husband,not her parents,when you marry doesn't your spouse become your 'next of kin'?
As some of you may know,I did spend two weeks in a coma,and my husband was told that if I ever came out of it I would be a veggie,obviously I was incredibly lucky....from what I've heard the doctors told Terri's family that there was no hope of recovery...they don't just say that in passing,they would've run every test they could think of,she would've been a pin-cushion....I felt SO sorry for her every time they showed her story on tv....it was cruel to force her to exist in that condition.
This is my opinion,from my own experience....the problem is that even if you legally put your wishes in writing they can still be contested...it's the perverbial 'rock and a hard place',my husband knows that if anything happens again, I absolutely do not want to be kept alive by machines,....touch wood nothing else will happen!......Sophia
Who had the right to make decisions for Terri?,surely it was her husband,not her parents,when you marry doesn't your spouse become your 'next of kin'?
As some of you may know,I did spend two weeks in a coma,and my husband was told that if I ever came out of it I would be a veggie,obviously I was incredibly lucky....from what I've heard the doctors told Terri's family that there was no hope of recovery...they don't just say that in passing,they would've run every test they could think of,she would've been a pin-cushion....I felt SO sorry for her every time they showed her story on tv....it was cruel to force her to exist in that condition.
This is my opinion,from my own experience....the problem is that even if you legally put your wishes in writing they can still be contested...it's the perverbial 'rock and a hard place',my husband knows that if anything happens again, I absolutely do not want to be kept alive by machines,....touch wood nothing else will happen!......Sophia
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