[freedumb2003]

I have stayed out of this, but the insanity of these threads is starting to get to me. It is like a Bizarro DU, with ideas like the Secret Service grabbing Terri or a wall of people standing there to stop whatever it is they want to stop.

Bottom line: THE SSCHINDLERS HAVE NO STANDING! Once Terri got married, by EVERY POSSIBLE LAW, the husband was allowed to act on her behalf. Removing feeding tubes from persons in a persistent vegetative state happens all the time.

I know that if I expressed my desire that I be allowed to pass rather than be a vegetable (don't jump in here with your opinions about whether she is or isn't -- many doctors and over 20 judges have adjudicated she is) to my wife and then my family and then CONGRESS, for Goodness sake, put their nose in where it didn't belong, I would be pissed in advance if I knew they were going to do it.

This is all about the husband being a scumbag. No matter how many threads are posted, this is a personal matter. Unless the endgame is to never allow feeding tubes to be removed under any circumstance in the presence of autonomic breathing, this should never have been

[brytlea]

YOu got me. I don't think feeding/hydration should be with held without a living will requesting it. At what point did we start deciding that it was ok to starve/dehydrate people to death? If the law allows it, the law is wrong. I don't care how many judges or doctors say it's the thing to do.
susie