Terri Schiavo's Parents Fight Against Euthanasia
March 28, 2006 — -- It has been a year since Terri Schiavo died in a Florida hospice after her feeding tube was removed following a bitter seven-year court battle between her family and her husband.
Terri's parents, Mary and Robert Schindler, and her brother and sister, Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo, may have lost the fight to keep Terri alive, but now they are fighting for other disabled people through their foundation, the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation.
"We've become comfortable in our society to kill someone simply because they have a brain injury," Bobby Schindler told "Good Morning America." "That's what we're trying to change."
The Schindlers talk about their fight against care rationing, euthanasia and medical killing in their new book, "A Life That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo -- A Lesson for All of Us." The book is being released the same week as Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, releases a book about his version of events, "Terri: The Truth," continuing the bitter feud between the two sides.
In his book, Schiavo reiterates his position that he was determined to carry out his wife's wishes to die with dignity.
The Schindlers strike back in "A Life That Matters," expressing their suspicion that Schiavo might have had something to do with Terri's initial collapse in 1990. They also say that at that time, the Schiavos' marriage was on the rocks and that Terri was contemplating divorce -- not starting a family, as Michael Schiavo has said.
"Regardless of what the marriage was like, and regardless of what we had with Michael, that doesn't rationalize what he did to our sister by killing her in this manner," Bobby Schindler said.
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