“who are you to judge the life I live? i know im not perfect – and i don’t live to be. but before you start pointing fingers..make sure your hands are clean.”

I still have a problem with his history of demanding behavior and unwillingness to let Terri’s family be involved in many ways and at various times while she was still alive and in the hospital.

If Mr. Schiavo feels vilified it’s because he brought attention to himself and his family. He doesn’t care about what this might have done to his family or he would have backed down long ago. He kept this in the news and now he has to keep up his sad story to help sell his book. I hope his new family (that he started well before any of this while still married to Terri) is proud.

“NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR: Unthinkable disasters, astonishing revelations, and remarkable human spirit. Here are the people who made 2005 memorable.”

I guess you could argue that Michael Schiavo falls into the category of “unthinkable disasters” considering he took the medical malpractice money awarded by a jury to rehabilitate his wife to, instead, have her starved to death. But, I’m pretty sure that’s not what PEOPLE had in mind.

As for the “astonishing revelations” — I’d say if Michael came clean about what really happened that night 15 years ago while he waited a full 70 minutes to call 911 after his perfectly healthy wife collapsed, then he’d fit that category.

Which only leaves the “remarkable human spirit” department for Mr. Schiavo. Let’s see. I guess PEOPLE believes it’s a “remarkable” quality of the human spirit when a married man lives with another woman while pledging love to the wife he’s trying to put down like a wounded animal.

Interestingly, a full half of the 167-word article promoted his new book. QUESTION: Is PEOPLE owned by, or have a financial interest in, Michael’s publisher? That might be a gem to disclose since this flotsum reads like a shameless plug for his book.

Fashionably late the ladies of The Cotillion are happy to invite you to our holiday block party. The first stop is at sisu where Sissy presents A Microcosm Of America At Its Best. “We often talk about how our policies…

Despite whatever anyone may believe about Terri’s condition, starving her to death was inhumane. People are imprisoned for starving their pets. All the time here we see people charged with animal cruelty for not feeding their horses.

Frickin’ A!! Better go before I curse.

Terri left no written instructions. Indeed, the testimony on Terri’s purported verbal wishes was, IMHO, exceedingly thin (and pretty self-serving by Michael). Since Terri was NOT on life support and left NO written instructions, the argument basically about should the law take a DEATH default or a LIFE default?

In other words, should Terri’s custody, absent Terri’s own unequivocal instructions, go to those that are willing to care for her until natural death occurs or go to someone that wants to put her down?

This became an alarming matter to people who have family members who are severely disabled, since it comes startling close to open euthanasia. Couple that with Michael’s attorney and his major medical” expert witness” ARE open advocates of euthanizing the “inconvenient” and that Michael had already moved on with his life, taking a mistress and having children with her, and you have a situation in which Michael’s motive appear less than sterling and his subsequent behavior (such as putting Terri’s death date on her tombstone as the day she went into a coma, and his media whoring above) reinforces and to some extent substantiates the initial appearance.

According to Tammy at A Mom and Her Blog People magazine has proclaimed Michael Schiavo one of the “Newsmakers of the Year”. It begins by noting Michael Schiavo’s life has settled down since doctors removed the feeding tube from his…

If any of you would like to actually educate yourselves on the facts surrounding Terri’s case I suggest you start at this link and then click around a little more. http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2005/02/terri_schiavo_i.php

As you’ll see in the video and from the testimony Terri wasn’t comatose or un responsive. Her only means of “life support” was a feeding tube. She was NOT on a “life support” machine. Her heart and lungs worked just fine.

Michael Schiavo murdered his severely disabled wife by starving her to death.

It’s a difficult task to decide wheather to keep someone a live or “pull the plug”. I would like to say I wouldn’t pull the plug, but I won’t know untill I’m in that position. It’s hard to imagine before you are right in the middle of it.

Regarding the book, I think that’s strange. If he really want to write a book, he should wait. It’s too soon. Plus he should donate the money or at least some of it.