[Georgia_JimD]

13 years and he didn't spend any out of pocket expenses directly or indirectly?? Not likely... It's a nice hunk of money, I agree, but how much is the loss of a spouse worth? What was her potential income to the family? You can't argue the money with me. He deserves quite a bit of it.

[NautiNurse]

So you are saying that Terri Schiavo did not deserve the opportunity for rehabilitation services. You can't argue that one to fruition.

[ChemistCat]

I think a man who goes raging in for days on end asking the nurses if that "b****" has died yet, and cursing them when they said no, has problems beyond any that come of wanting the best for his ward and wife. He's gone on to make another family. He should not be her guardian.

When she was told that she will be starved to death, she became very distressed and tried to get out of the chair.

She's not in the persistant vegetative state that you and I both agree would be intolerable; she responds to people, and likely could have been restored to substantial function if she'd been given therapy. She has not even been given assisted communication devices that may have made it possible for her to express her desires on that point and many others. And she was denied the exercise of religion.

Jim I agree with YOU when the case is as you say--a persistant vegetative state and when the person left a clear, explicit living will stating that food and water ought to be withheld in certain circumstances. Terri's case simply does not fall into any of those categories. I approached this from your point of view, but I have come to believe that there is no evidence to support that Terri herself would wish to die now, and huge evidence that her husband is using the state, the doctors, and the police to get away with murder.

Her parents want to take her home and care for her at their expense--and now they cannot even see her, even though she lights up and responds to them when they do. They violated a judge's order and videotaped her being responsive. Why would a judge be so determined to prevent the truth from getting out? It's something to think about.

Mr. Schiavo could divorce her then and get on with his life. Instead he wants her to die, and ASAP--and there is a lot of testimony out there that suggests criminal intent...testimony the judges have ignored.

To me the clincher is the demand for immediate cremation without autopsy. One side has done everything to conceal the facts, and one side has had to break the law to expose the facts. This really troubles me and it should trouble everyone.

The test being used is the ability to get a spoon to one's own mouth: if she could do that, she could live. I am on the slow road to that condition myself, and just about anybody could wake up one morning or have a crash or a stroke and be there. Every baby starts there. It is a test that has only a little bit to do with quality of life--a test neither Christopher Reeves nor Stephen Hawking could pass.

[sweetliberty]

Were you aware that there is evidence that her husband may have been the reason for her condition in the first place?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

There are many people who believe, including docters,lawyers, friends and family ,that her husband Michael was trying to kill her. Much has been said about Terri thinking about divorce right before she had a "mysterious collapse" Docters have tetified that her injuries were consistant with that of stranglation. Thomas More Law cEnter believes this case is similiar to other cases where a spouse was trying to remove the feeding tube of a person they were trying to murder prior to the feeding tube.