Conservatives were on the wrong side of this debate. My wife has said during the Shiavo debate that she wouldn't want to be kept alive in a PVS. Suppose she were in a car accident or had a stroke and went into a PVS. Should I really ignore my wife's wish to be taken off the feeding tube? Just remarry and leave her be? She's my wife, I would want to honor her request and her memory.
"An unproductive life and a drain on society". There goes the Democrat Base but, that saves Social Security.
You know if anyone has gained/learned anything from this case is to get it in writing.
Friend, as far as I know, Mr. Schiavo came out with that line 7 years after the fact, after he collected a hefty sum in malpractice insurance, and after he entered into a liaison with another woman who bore him children. Since Terri left nothing in writing, and her parents had another viewpoint, there was reasonable doubt on Mr. Schiavo's motivation for his belated interpretation of her wife's wishes. The conflict of interest was blatantly obvious, yet ignored by the courts.
The best your wife can do is to place her wishes in writing--her choices in the situation may not be ethical, but that's another subject for debate--yet they will be legal in some states, and you'll be able to keep whatever malpractice insurance money you may have coming without spending it in lawyers. Rejoice, because either of you will be quickly disposed off were you to become a drain in society's and your family's resources.
-Theo