An excellent, thought-provoking piece by Therese over at Exultet:
Living next door to the Schiavos
What if you lived next door to Michael Schiavo and his household? Would you let your children play with his children? Would you speak to him? The mother of his children? Would you hire him? Would you do business with whoever employs him?
What are the charitable actions, the merciful attitudes, to pursue in living next door to a man whose heart is filled with such anger and evil? Do we shake his dust off our shoes, put him out from among us? Or do we extend our hand?
This is a dramatic example, but I'm sure you found out, as I have, how many hearts around you harbor cruelty and disdain for life, expressed in mean and callous water cooler conversations and dinner table discussions. Our response to them is, in a way, a proportional one to actually living next door to Terri's murderer.
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Although it may be quite tempting to respond to other peoples comments on this (hey there, Chris!), I would ask that going forward you only answer this question yourself, if you wish to comment. In other words, no back-and-forth on this one. I'm curious what other comments I'll get here.
Posted by: Tom McMahon | 04/04/2005 at 08:19 AM
I would like to shake his hand. He didn't waver when the nutcases in government and society decided to shove their noses in a matter that they had no right to be in.
15 years in that kind of state where you are fed through a tube, cannot communicate, cannot even think, when most of your brain has turned to mush is not life. The parents were keeping her alive for them, as a barely living memorial instead of letting her die in peace with some dignity. Death is part of life, some of us have to walk it much earlier than others but I am pretty sure most people wouldn't want to end up with the last 15 years of her existence where even if you were to listen to her parents, her biggest entertainment was watching a balloon. That is some life!
Posted by: Chris | 04/03/2005 at 10:18 PM
I haven't formed my opinions yet either. But these questions were too timely not to share.
Posted by: Tom McMahon | 04/01/2005 at 06:36 PM
Terry, what a careful and charitable answer. I haven't actually formed my own opinions yet, I just posted the possible sticking points.
The difference I've found in striving to live intensely in Christ is that I don't know the fast answers to these questions anymore.
Posted by: Therese Z | 04/01/2005 at 04:58 PM
Would I let my children play with his? Yes. What did his kids do?
Would I speak to his new wife? Sure. But not about his first wife.
Would I do business with the company that he works for? Yup, unless he was self-employed.
I'd probably avoid him though. In fact, I know I would.
I believe he thought his wife was already dead. I'm sure what he went through in the years before he went to court was horrific. I believe he was wrong. I also believe how he acted was incredibly spiteful and hateful.
To a lot of people, including Terri's parents what happened was court ordered murder. Michael Schiavo put into motion this process. How would you act if someone got a court order to starve your daughter to death?
I can forgive Terri's parents for acting the way they did, I'd be worse if it was my daughter. I can't forgive Michael Schiavo, but I can feel sorry for him. I can hope that someday I might be able to forgive him, I hope that somehow this might all turn out to be for the greater good.
Posted by: Terry | 04/01/2005 at 01:33 PM
The whole tenor of that commentary made me sick, and to me is everything that is wrong with the cultural warriors in this country. I commented on that person's blog directly.
Posted by: Erik | 04/01/2005 at 12:03 PM