[ORECON]

The evidence is Michael is her next-of-kin. He gets to make the call by Florida law. If you don't like the law, work to change it. don't grasp for straws to make your case.

[Xenalyte]

So if a young woman - and Terri was quite young when they married - picks the wrong mate (as does happen, you know), that wrong mate gets to make the decisions?

If I had actually married my first fiance, I have no doubt we'd have loads of kids and long rap sheets by now. At 19, I was absolutely no judge of character.

It would really suck if I'd married him and then "collapsed mysteriously" after talking about divorcing him, because then he'd get to make decisions like this one.

But everyone knows how much Michael loves Terri. So much, he's screwing another woman.

[BykrBayb]

No, Florida Law does not allow next of kin to substitute their own wishes for those of the patient. It specifically forbids it. Florida Law also requires that her estranged husband be removed as her guardian due to his conflicts of interest. Florida Law forbids the removal of a feeding tube from a patient in Terri's condition. Florida Law forbids the denial of food and water taken orally. Florida Law forbids the denial of therapy, mobility, sensory stimulation... There's a long list of laws that are being broken.