Reply #39: I did, not any more [View All]

They seem to have accepted long ago that their daughter was in a persistent vegetative state and would never be coming back. They encouraged Michael Schiavo to move on with his life and welcomed the people he dated into their home. When they did not receive what they thought was their share of the money from the lawsuit thats when things went downhill.

It's hard for me to understand why they had accepted her condition and all that diagnosis brings with it back then but now claim, after significant further deterioration, that she can communicate, see and react to her surroundings.

I also read a letter on one of the many "save terri" sites that the father had written a few days ago. At the end of the letter (full of what I now know to be lies) he made the point that they were not wealthy people and had no organization giving them financial help with all the lawsuits and didn't know how much longer they could go on. A blatant lie and for what reason, donations?

After reading that any sympathy I had for them as grieving parents is gone. To use grief as a reason for this type of behavior, in my mind, does a disservice to people who are truly grieving a loved ones illness and passing. I can't imagine how the grieving relatives of the other people in the hospice, where their daughter, is feel about this display of grief and all it has brought to the end of their loved ones lives.