Schiavo's Death Not Peaceful, Says Brother

August 6, 2009 (Reporter)

In his keynote to the 26th National Conference of Lutherans For Life (LFL), July 24-25 in St. Louis, Bobby Schindler said his sister, Terri Schindler Schiavo, did not die a peaceful death, as her husband has said.

Terri Schiavo, 41, died in 2005 after her husband, Michael Schiavo, received court-ordered permission to have her feeding tube removed in the high-profile case. Her family disagreed that Terri would have wanted to die.

In Terri's last days, while Michael Schiavo's attorney was telling reporters he'd never seen Terri so "beautiful," the Schindler siblings were begging their mother not to visit her daughter, whose court-ordered starvation had ravaged her body almost beyond recognition.

Bobby Schindler said it was impossible for him to describe his sister after two weeks without food, water and palliative care, but called her starvation "the most heinous, barbaric thing I ever had to witness." It is, he told LFL conference-goers, something he said he will remember all his life.

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