Plus, We Hear that You Have Friends in High Places Down Here
St. Petersburg Times had an interview with Michael Schiavo, who put his request to President Bush point blank:"Come down, President Bush," Schiavo said in a telephone interview. "Come talk to me. Meet my wife. Talk to my wife and see if you get an answer. Ask her to lift her arm to shake your hand. She won't do it."
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Schiavo has learned from his betters, that's for sure.
I mean, the focus in the legal case was supposedly on what Terri would have wanted for her care.
But as we all know, the inquiry in these cases is focused on what the decisionmaker thinks someone should want in these cases, not on what the actual patient actually wants. And, we're assured, no one would want to live a life like Terri's--her life isn't worth living. (There are even poll numbers that answer the question definitively!)
And so Michael Schiavo, who now understands how these things work, focuses not on what Terri would want, but on what she can't do. He doesn't need to tearfully recall the conversations they had about end of life care (which, he assures us, no one talks about), he just needs to say, she's a vegetable. And of course that's the right approach--everyone agrees on that.
- by Thomas on Mar 23, 2005 at 12:50 AM | link