[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

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At this point, I wouldn't condemn citizen intervention in the matter by force... It's a sad day when such action may be needed to protect the innocent in our nation...

God bless Terri and may he damn her husband to eternal thirst in the hottest hell.

Mike
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If I understand the case, the husband claims that the wife told him she would not want to be indefinitely sustained by artificial means in this type of situation?

I guess I don't understand why so many people seem to be so angry that the husband is carrying out her wishes?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Go to www.terrisfight.org

You'll learn a great deal about Terri Schiavo.

[Warren_Piece]

I guess I don't understand why so many people seem to be so angry that the husband is carrying out her wishes?

I'll be blunt. We don't believe him. He's already had children by another woman, and this whole thing stinks to high heaven. Go to her website and you'll see the preponderance of the evidence.

[FairOpinion]

"I guess I don't understand why so many people seem to be so angry that the husband is carrying out her wishes? "

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He CLAIMS that. There are no written instructions, no evidence.

Why do the husband's wishes trump the wishes of parents?
This is what I don't understand.

This is a two part problem -- my point above is, I think the most important part.

Then one can have a discussion as to the real state of Terry, whether she is or is not in a vegetative state. I saw the video on TV, where she followed the movement of a balloon with her eyes -- this is NOT reflex action.

[BCR #226]

Show me in writing where she proclaims this... it's his word against... well, she can't talk now can she.

There is a great deal of evidence that she was put in this state by her husband. His actions betray his greed at the expense of her life. At this point in time, anything he says or does should be viewed with suspicion. The actions of the courts should as well.

I don't believe Michael Schaivo has Terri's well being or wishes in mind. There is evidence, albeit it questionable, that she doesn't want to die as provided by her parents. I trust her parents more than her husband...

Mike

PS- this is why I have a living will... there is no mistaking my wishes or claims of thing I may have said. It's all in writing.

[Theodore R.]

I guess I don't understand why so many people seem to be so angry that the husband is carrying out her wishes?

That's an easy one to answer. We don't believe the "husband." He is not even a "husband" worthy of quotation marks!

[Lurking Libertarian]

If I understand the case, the husband claims that the wife told him she would not want to be indefinitely sustained by artificial means in this type of situation? I guess I don't understand why so many people seem to be so angry that the husband is carrying out her wishes?

Ordinarily, I would agree with that position. The husband, however, has a big conflict of interest-- he is engaged to another woman and has two children by her. This makes many people (myself included) suspicious of what he says his wife's wishes were.

I think the law should require that a person who doesn't want to be kept alive by extraordinary means leave written instructions in advance. (Many states already require that.) It would avoid these horrible situations.