I just have to wonder when the angry left is going to wake up and realize that their positions are not main stream. The Democrats are sinking deeper and deeper into a world of self delusion, driven by contempt of conservative moral values and hatred for George W. Bush.
What makes you think that it is the Schindlers who are spreading falsehoods and propaganda? There was actually very little evidence that Terry ever expressed a wish to die, rather than live in a decreased capacity, other than the word of an adulterous, possibly abusive husband. Most of the posters on this board (and apparently the public at large) think that the angry left has just scored a victory at the expense of the life of a brain damaged woman. I hope that you are never faced with a judicial fiat ordering the death of a family member because they are brain damaged (not brain dead). Most people feel that it is not the place of the government to decide when a person is no longer of any value.
I am sorry for the long reply, but there is something else I would like to add to this. About two years ago, my husband was diagnosed with a bone tumor in his femur. Probably cancerous, they said. My husband is extremely athletic and had remarked on numerous occassions that he would not want to live as a cripple, but when faced with the possibility, the truth is, he didn't mean it. What he did mean was that he didn't want to be a cripple, but then no one does. It doesn't mean that they want to die.
The lies have been rampant and the most ridiculous and false has been that this inevitable death is the result of some sort of Death Culture which controls America. In actual FACT even the deaths of the most damaged and least viable of us only comes after agonizing medical or court decisions.
Our nation spends vast sums upon those who would have routinely died only a few years ago. Preemies received care costing hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. TS had thousands of hours of court hearings, hundreds of medical professionals working over her, and received millions of dollars in state funds for her care. Any charge of inhumanity or callousness is just a flat out lie. This was one of the most significant claims of the Schindler supporters.
Another outright lie is that this was an example of judicial tyranny and overreaching. Once again nothing could be further from the truth when what the Schindler supporters wanted was EXACTLY that overreaching routinely condemned in other cases by conservatives. There was NO misconduct on the judge's part, NO corruption of him and NO biased rulings.
His decisions were based upon the best medical evidence available and are unexceptional being clearly within the framework of the law. Yet this did nothing to prevent an torrent of accusations, lunatic conspiracy theories and more hatred than that directed at Saddam Hussein. A complete loss of perspective and decency.
These are only two of the most exgregious falsehoods routinely spread here. They make FR look like the home of screwballs if unchallenged.
I hope your husband fully recovers having lost my beloved wife to this horror I understand the feelings cancer can provoke. Best wishes to you.