Posted on 03/20/2005 12:29:52 PM PST by kcvl
Per Fox News...
He testified under oath that she had made that statement to him.
I could be wrong .. but I believe thouse nurses claims were back in the insurance settlement cases
I have no doubt he took very good care of her then
Feel better now?
Why do you find Michael - who has two children illegitimate who can't be legitimate until Terri is out of the picture so Michael can marry again -- more "credible" than Terri's mother? Michael has something personal to gain if Terri is killed. He can marry his fiance and give his children legal status. So why do you give him more standing and more credibility than the mother who bore Terri?
How many 26 year olds have living wills? Not many.
But I remember being young and watching a movie with my husband and telling him, not for me. Admittedly, a Living Will is preferable.
But every day in this country people have stomach tubes and life support removed based on their family's wishes. My stepsister was on life support two years ago. She was young and didn't have a Living Will. When we were told it was hopeless and had the doctors try everything they could, my stepdad had the doctors take her off the machinery.
It is only in this case because the husband and the parents are in disagreement that this is happening.
So? Was it detailed? Did it involve all the different types of incapacitation? Just saying "I don't want to live that way" while half-asleep or on the way to a restaurant does not make a legal statement. Moreover, you have to believe Schiavo, who has a conflict of interest. Life is too high a hurdle for this. Gotta write it down.
Uh. No. Doctors were sued because she was bulimic and they didn't diagnose it when she came in suffering from cardiac arrest.
Had they diagnosed her properly, they've have treated her differently and she might never have gone PVS.
Radiologists and other doctors testified at the trial and admitted she was bulimic.
Honest, I'm not picking on you ... but the USSC swings both ways. Note Roe V. Wade, the recent decision regarding capital punishment as applied to under 18 year olds, etc. While they provide "the last word," I'd be reluctant to tie myself to the decisions of that august body as "blanket good."
Was your stepsister starved?
-----Which time? To Michael, when she said something during a TV show, or to her mall-going friend, when she said that the plug shouldn't be pulled on Karen Quinlan, because "where there's life, there's hope?"
Yeah, for someone on a noble mission, he seems to care an awful lot about what other people think about him.
But first he's trying to carry out his wife's wishes.
And here you contradict your first statement. Sorry.
Plus, if she didn't write it down, so she didn't wish anything. That's why we have the whole living will dealie.
How's that?
That's not true. She was spoon fed by nursing home employees until Michael FORBADE it. Numerous medical doctors, too, have said with therapy, Terri could learn to eat again. It is her guardian Michael that forbids any therapy that would benefit Terri or improve her condition.
"Even if she had said something, it's no more serious than an embarassed person proclaiming "I want to die." and having it be used as a suicide attempt."
Sure... I suppose you would just laugh it off if Michael had mentioned to someone in 1989 " Ya'know... sometimes I just wanna strangle her ! "
Very seriously. :)
The Court found his testimony credible.
Neither. If she were serious, she'd write it down. Otherwise, it's just an emotional reaction to a particular circumstance.
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