"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.
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She made five (5) similar remarks to three people on five different occasions. All three testified under oath, in a court of law, under penalty of perjury, and subject to cross examination, to that effect.
"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."
Yep.
Sadly, your logic will not persuade the death cultists on this thread.