Schindler and Schiavo

A reader writes:

In all the years that Michael Schiavo has been trying to get his wife put to death, why have no Florida agencies been investigating the fraud on the court he has committed with the money awarded to Terri for her rehabilitation? He has spent it on attornies to petition the courts to end her feeding. Doesn't he have to give an accounting to someone for those expenditures? Surely, the state has some agency to oversee such matters.

One gets the impression that Michael Schiavo has important friends.

Esquire blogs today on the subject:

.... The husband's potential conflict of interest in an insurance policy and his expressed intent to remarry once Terry is dead, the alleged failure to attempt rehabilitation, the ludicrously convenient statement that she spoke about being in a coma raise a serious concern. I think that most of the critics of the removal of the tube are simply reaching for something like "clear and convincing" evidence of her intent.

I'm not sure I buy the idea that a policy allowing for suicide on the part of the "worthless" and "valueless" is prudent. The abuses that can follow from that principle are quite apparent. In fact, I would argue that they have been manifested in the Terry Schiavo case where it seems that there has been a general tendency to "dumb down" the proof requirement to support the termination of life....

A thought occurred to me:

Not exactly to the point. But why on earth would a woman want to marry a man who would do this to his wife? I think we may be referring to the wrong woman as being "brain disabled".

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 10/23/03 08:12:51 PM
Categorized as Terri Schindler Schiavo.