"What ongoing feud? I only see shots coming from one direction in this "ongoing feud." It's easy to play the noble peacemaker if at first you fudge the facts..."
There is no "fudging" of facts.
What is really needed is a legal autopsy. I believe her death is a tragedy and I also believe there is another agenda behind this - desensitizing people to euthanasia. Can't you see it now, suggesting to the informed that they are hoggin scare resources and costing money our Medicare or Medicaid system can't afford and you've lived long enough - guilt trip - to encourage them to end their life. The handwriting is on the wall for this and again why we need a legal autopsy to make sure this can not happen again.
I've read some of the earlier legal documents and the Shindlers, I'd bet, unknowingly, legally set themselves up. They sorely lacked seasoned council. Decisions had been made with agreement by the Shindlers, precedents set with agreement by the Shindlers and they were legally boxed in.
that is why seeing them desperately going from court to court and asking them to review and start again what had already been established was so sad to watch. It wasn't going to happen. This had been going on for 15 years!
I'll give you a recent specific. The Shindler attorney failed to even show up at an emergency hearing to present the "ah wa" uttering when it happened. Geesh! It came too late and looked contrived. I don't think it was but the courts didn't see it that way.
I believe it would have been right err on the side of life but it didn't work out that way. We need a legal autopsy to have more safe guards in place for those that haven't expressed their wishes. I saw a conflict of interest in Michael being her legal guardian but again the Shindlers supported it till their relationship soured. And on and on it goes. I don't know if we will ever know the whole truth.
Felos is a nutjob. He thrives on death. Ideally he'd like to do this to all disabled people. How he described Terri looking "beautiful" is absurd. No one looks "beautiful" starving to death but Felos wasn't the one on trial. Our culture has allowed these nuts to go unchecked under the First Amendment. Ask any idiot on FR and eventually one will state something like I'll fight to the death to give the person the right to voice their views. I sure wouldn't do that with Felos. Let him be silenced though shame on his views. So our general culture has contributed to what we see going on in the courts. NOW, we are seeing the results of what we have sown.