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So, money is a determining factor in this judge's decision?

Therefore, some lives deserve life more than others? So, the judge's own family will, of course, be allowed life whereas, those lesser ones will not.

And this is what you consider fairness, sanctity of life, and justice?

I do not and this is exactly the mindset I am fighting.

I will not give a judge the power to make these judgements over me or my family. We are not cattle - we are people who have a constitutional right to the life that God gave us and no man has the authority to sit in judgement of whether we get to live or not. That takes away my constitutional right.

This (from the article) convinces me that the "evidence" that Terri wished to die should have been inadmissible because utterly unconfirmable. It was a superficial, passing statement made by a very young lady, which she was at the time of the purported remark.

"But Michael was speaking as though Terri Schiavo's wishes in the matter were clear and Republicans were determined to trample them anyway. Yet her wishes, as Didion says, were "essentially unconfirmable" and based on bits of hearsay reported by people whose interests were not obviously her own--Michael Schiavo and two of his relatives.

"One hearsay comment--"no tubes for me" --came while Terri Schiavo was watching television. "Imagine it," Didion wrote. "You are in your early 20s. You are watching a movie, say on Lifetime, in which someone has a feeding tube. You pick up the empty chip bowl. 'No tubes for me,' you say as you get up to fill it. What are the chances you have given this even a passing thought?" According to studies cited last year in the Hastings Center Report, Didion reminds us, almost a third of written directives, after periods as short as two years, no longer reflect the wishes of those who made them. And here nothing was written down at all."

I would hate to be in Terri's predicament, and have a hostile former husband, whose neutrality was blatantly compromised, decide that I should be put to death, on the basis of a quick, superficial remark I might have made when I was 22.

Char

I'm aware you have strong feelings.

I believe the outcome was what Mrs Schiavo wished. I know that if it were me in the condition she was proven to be in the outcome would have been what I wanted.

And your feelings on that matter will not change the fact that most people would not choose to exist in a vegetative state for 20 years. We the people of FL. put these laws on the books. Change peoples hearts and change the law. Don't blame the judges. Look in the mirror.