Here's my epistle.
Judge Greer,
I am sorry I cannot use the word honorable in front of your name. Any judge, any man, that would allow a woman to die on the word of her husband and friends when that same woman is LOVED and WANTED and CHERISHED by her parents is beyond belief, certainly without honor.
If our rule of law allows a woman to die on heresay, he said she said, or on the words of once youthful friends, or if our rule of law has no heart, no compassion and such a great deal of revenge (the husband NOT allowing her parents, the ones who LOVE HER, to visit with their beloved daugther), then I no longer understand my nation, or at the very least, our court system.
What you are doing is so heartless, so wrong, so incredibly cold that I cannot stand it...I watched the videos of Terri on national TV last night and wept.
You are a very bad man. You cannot hide behind the law on this one, because it is a matter of the heart, of the soul and of right and wrong.
When you destroy the spirit of the law, as you have, you not only destroy a life, Terri's, forever, but you destroy the hearts of her parents, who WANT her (they have not gone on to be with someone else, as her husband has....)
Your name will be remembered by me forever. When I remember it-or am reminded of it...I will not think of a man who upheld the law, I will think of a man who subverted the spirit of our rule of law, and killed a woman in a heartless manner, to appease a husband without love for his suffering wife.
When I saw Terri's face light upon her mother's touch-I did not see a reflexive action, I saw hope in that smile. And when I read the nurses report that Terri becomes agitated when her so called husband is in the room....I ached.
You hold the keys, but the problem is, your heart and mind are harder and colder than the very keys you control.
May your daughter, if you have one, never experience with her husband what Terri did with hers, may you never be in the fight of your life to keep hope alive for your beloved daughter, and I hope you are busy planning what you are going to say before God someday, because it will come, Mr. Greer, and you will not be able to hide behind a false law then.
Sincerely,
< full name and address here >
(I can't write to him. I'm too angry... I can't keep my thoughts toghether.)
Your letter says it best , so eloquently- what many of us here are feeling. It is well written. I hope Greer reads it and thinks about it for a long time.