(LifeNews.com) – March 18, 2005, will mark the 19th anniversary of my sister, Terri Schiavo, having her feeding tube forcibly removed. What followed was indescribable; Terri’s agonizing suffering took almost two weeks to end, as she finally succumbed to a brutal death caused by severe dehydration.
Terri’s unjust death was sanctioned by Florida’s Sixth Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer, after her estranged and unfaithful husband, Michael Schiavo, petitioned the court (with perjured testimony) for permission to kill his wife.
Because of my family’s experience defending my sister, we established the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, a nonprofit organization advocating for patients like Terri and to raise awareness of the reality of a well-established paternalistic healthcare system.
Terri’s decade-long fight and my 20 years of experience working as a patient advocate have opened my eyes to the eugenic ideology of this country. It makes no difference if a person needs time to heal or only requires food and water to live – it’s about quality-of-life assessments to decide whether a person lives or dies. CONTINUE