"Lovely. He's using money that was earmarked for her care to get permission to starve her to death. What an animal."
It only makes him an animal if he is lying about her wishes, if what he says is true (ie that she told him she would not like to live this way) then I would contend he is trying to carry out her wishes.
I for one would want my feeding tube yanked if I were in Terrri's condition and I have an advanced directive saying so. I propbably wouldn't have done this if not for this case.
Aye. But then, we only have his uncorraborated word that she ever said that.
Considering his haste to have her cremated, and a number of other things that look suspicious on the surface, I really think that he's hiding something. And he wants it to stay hidden.
"I for one would want my feeding tube yanked if I were in Terrri's condition"
Oh, so if a burglar comes to you tonite, konks you out, you wake up unable to swallow tomorrow, and your family wants to care for you, but your spouse who has been engaged to SOMEONE ELSE SINCE 1996 and has two children by her, won't let them, and makes the decisions not to give you therapy and instead starve and dehydrate you to death??? That's what you want?
Well that Is Terri's condition.
It's hard when your sick,yes. But does the state have the right to disregard its own and federal laws and deprive anyone of their life?
Yanked? Or not put in in the first place? If Terri didn't want a feeding tube and had told her husband so, why did he wait so long to request the removal?
Pro-Terri people, wait, please. Give IJR a chance to reply first.
The instinct to survive is not as fragile as you think.