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yet you are advocating legislation to interfere in people's marriages

When someone is incapacitated the marriage is not quite the same as it was before. Certainly there are devoted married couple who care for each other in such a cirucmstance. But what if one spouse, after years of caring for his incapacitated spouse, now decides he would rather get a new spouse? Can he divorce his current spouse? Who does he serve papers on? Or can the incapacited spouse divorce him if her religious beliefs do not include pulling the plug, which is the next step in the exhausted spouse's view? What is the mechanism by which the right of an incapacitated spouse to divorce in these extraordinary circusmstances, when that spouse's immediate family wants to care for that incapacitated spouse? Can they go to court and obtain legal gaurdianship from the other spouse, who now wants to pull the plug? Are their written directions from the incapacitated spouse? And if there are no such directions, is the right of a family to care for an incapacitated family member important? Is their right equal to or greater than the right of the other spouse to pull the pl - without written directions? There are a lot of question that came up in Terri's case. Other conservatives agreed with me on this thread that my suggestion had merit. You didn't. That's OK. You said it's OK if your husband kills you. So, OK. I accept your position. Others don't.