USA Today has hit the nail on the head with the shiavo drama

its all about the money the schindlers DID NOT get

read it.

just my usa today paper.



go buy one

that it's not available, or you read it hard copy -- it's hard to get a sense of an article with nothing else but a sentence or two synopsis, and not even a paragraph to look at. Some people hate a teaser line with just a link to an article -- when the link takes them to the article, so it's all a matter of subjectivity anyway.

no big deal... thanks for the info.

We discussed this last night in another thread. The Schindlers couldn't have won a malpractice suit of their own and they wanted Michael to give them money. The Schindler dad told M Schiavo he was going to make his life hell.

to further the agenda and to keep themselves from having to work

On Valentine's Day that year, he testified, he was in his wife's nursing home room studying. He wanted to become a nurse so he could care for his wife himself. He had taken Terri to California for experimental treatment. A doctor there had placed a stimulator inside Terri's brain and those of other people in vegetative states to try to stimulate still-living but dormant cells.

According to Schiavo's testimony, the Schindlers came into Terri's room in the nursing home, spoke to their daughter, then turned to him.

"The first words out of my father-in-law's mouth was how much money he was going to get," Schiavo said. "I was, 'What do you mean?' 'Well, you owe me money.' "

Schiavo said he told his in-laws that all the money had gone to his wife — a lie he said he told Bob Schindler "to shut him up because he was screaming."

Schiavo said his father-in-law called him "a few choice words," then stormed out of the room. Schiavo said he started to follow him, but his mother-in-law stepped in front of him, saying, "This is my daughter, our daughter, and we deserve some of this money."