[GOPJ]

Here's what I'm finding. People with money want to leave that money to their families, not to a hospital or a rich doctor, or nursing facility for care that extends a persons misery not their life. They don't see that Terri's situation is different. And if they do see that possibility, they don't want her case to rob them. She becomes a threat to their ability to pass on resources to loved children and grandchildren. They don't "get" the differences.

People without money don't understand why someone would want to off another human without so much as a look at the situation. And because they have nothing invested personally, they don't "get it" either.

Then there's some who operate from principle beyond "what's in it for me". And that group has to find the compromise. Because, the incentives are strong on both sides. And these choices have bad unintended consequences.

[dawn53]

You don't have to "have money" or be trying to preserve an inheritance, to reject a feeding tube on a 92 year old man who had had multiple strokes, was unable to communicate, had broken a hip, and contracted a case of MRSA pneumonia.

Inheritance had nothing to do with our decision not to allow a feeding tube, even though the doctors pushed for one.

My FIL had written a Living Will in 1991 at the age of 81 that specifically stated "no feeding tube to prolong life." We were just following his wishes.