Michael Schiavo
Michael Schiavo was on Dateline in his first interview since Terri Schiavo’s death one year ago.
Michael Schiavo is a “fighter” as he put it. But I believe he is more than that. He is a man who has to win at all costs…and will do anything in his power to win. Right or wrong do not matter.
Michael Schiavo is also a master manipulator of facts to paint the picture white in his favor. He does it time and time again. Michael Schiavo told Dateline that he would never have given custody of Terri to the Schindlers because her father said “he would cut her arms and legs off”.
Really? He said just that?
Dateline, thankfully, corrected Michael Schiavo, and set the record straight. The truth was, the Schinlders said, if Terri got gangrene, they would still want her to live even if they had to cut her arms and legs off. Michael Schiavo had no problem telling half the story to make the Schindlers look evil, and himself a saint. This speaks volumes about Michael Schiavo.
I personally don’t trust Michael Schiavo. I think Michael Schiavo lacks normal emotions, a conscience, and furthermore, I believe he doesn’t have the ability to empathize or sympathize for any other living creature outside of himself.
When Michael Schiavo said the following on Dateline, I didn’t believe him:
Among his accusations is that Terri’s family, including her father, demanded the money from a malpractice award. “(Micahel Schiavo said) First, he asked when the money was coming down, and then he asked me, ‘How much money am I going to get?”’ Schiavo told Dateline.
(Michael Schiavo) I said. … ‘I’m giving it all to Terri.’ Then with some anger in his voice, he pointed at Terri and said, ‘Well, how much is she going to give me?’ She’s not going to give you anything. That money is entrusted with a guardian. (source: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1771858&page=1)
I suspect the truth is that the Schindlers wanted the malpractice money to go to Terri’s care. I am sure there was a confrontation, and I am pretty confident Michael Schiavo is forgetting half of the conversation–manipulating it again to make the Schindlers look evil.
Michael Schiavo went on to say on Dateline that he offered the Schindlers an agreement where he would hand over the money to a charity, but they never agreed. Michael Schiavo never showed any care for Terri, and the Schindlers knew it. Of course, they didn’t want the money to go to a charity. They wanted that money for Terri’s care!
The part of this whole story that concerns me the most is the fact that Michael Schiavo had no problem with Terri having a feeding tube and being in a vegetative state for three full years. It was only after he got the malpractice money that he suddenly “cared” for Terri. He cared to get her out of his life–once and for all.
If he truly wanted to honor Terri’s wishes, he couldn’t have handled letting her suffering for three full years! I don’t believe Michael Schiavo cared about Terri. The Schindlers, however, have showed a lot of caring and compassion for their daughter even in the face of great adversity.