I'm not sure what you're talking about. How did I manage to call you pro-death when you hadn't even posted to the thread yet?
BTW, I was not refering to any FReepers at all when I said:
"I really hope FReepers aren't so thrashed from the Schiavo fight, that we stop duking it out with the pro-deathers as we hear about this sort of thing happening more and more."
I was refering to The Hemlock Society, Partnership For Caring, Choice in Dying, The American Euthanasia Society, etc. Those are the Pro-Deathers.
Those are the people I want us duking it out with, not each other!
As for "why do they need the living will if she isn't comatose"? That's a good question. I could speculate based on other cases I've heard about, but I won't. I don't want to get any false rumors started; I just want the facts.
Standard operating procedure at hospitals, nursing homes and hospice to ask for the living wills, DNR requests, power of attorney..etc. to have on file.