George Felos, the "right-to-die" attorney representing Schiavo told Florida Baptist Witness his client "deeply loves Terri" and cares about her despite cohabitating openly with his fiancée, Jodi Centonze, since 1995. The couple now have two children together.
"He simply is not gong to walk away from that promise he made to [Terri] when she said, ‘Honey, don’t keep me alive like that,’” said Felos, describing statements made to a guardianship judge after winning a $1.3 million malpractice settlement for his wife’s care.
This really doesn't address Michael's statements during the 1992 lawsuit in which he re-affirmed his marriage vows and suggested he would care for his wife [more here].
SCHIAVO: I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I'm going to do that.Nor does it address the fact that in the spring of 1993, just a few months after this Medical Malpractice was awarded to Terri (Michael is her beneficiary), Michael instructed caregivers not to treat Terri for a common but life threatening infection. This happened again in 1995.
Although he tries later in the same article, Felos doesn't explain why Michael had affairs with other women while denying rehabilitation to his wife. During a court proceeding in 1993 Michael admitted that he was intimately involved with another woman and that this was not his first affair since Terri's collapse. In the years that followed Michael blocked music from being played in Terri's room and instructed caregivers not to brush her teeth.
There is much, much more that is left unexplained.
Terri’s "collapse" has become controversial after a previously hidden bone scan surfaced in 2002 which revealed multiple fractures consistent with a traumatic event. To date, no investigation has been conducted to determine the source of Terri’s injuries, but a radiologist gave a sworn statement that the date of those injuries would fall sometime near the time of her mysterious collapse.
Should Michael be Terri's guardian? The answer seems obvious.
Please take the opportunity to contact Florida’s Governor, Jeb Bush at "jeb.bush@myflorida.com," and demand that he invoke Florida Statute 415.1051 to provide protective custody for Terri until investigations into abuse and neglect can be carried out.
Marriage vows clearly do include starvation, though. What you're contending is that M's subsequent behavior constitutes de facto divorce.
Which vow includes starving/killing your spouse?
He seems to have no trouble from walking away from the promises he made to her on their wedding day. Those promises had many witnesses, her alleged "last wishes" are merely hearsay.
An annulment seems more in order as this marriage seems a fraud.
Her guardianship needs to be turned over to those who can give her NORMAL rehabilitative care not someone whose behavior is suspect on many levels.