My friend Bobby Schindler, the late Terri Schiavo’s brother, is one of the most kind, decent, and humble people I know. And yet, because he dared to stand up for the inherent value of his sister’s life and against the injustice of her court-ordered dehydration — and has continued to fight on behalf of brain-injured people and their families — journalists and bioethicists often look down their noses at him as someone just beyond the pale of sophisticated society.
But in a story in this Sunday’s New York Times magazine reciting how many allegedly unconscious patients are actually aware — I refuse to use the term “vegatative” as it is a dehumanizing denigration of intrinsic human value — much to my delighted surprise, Bobby is treated fairly and with respect by journalist Katie Engelhart.
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