[patriciaruth]

Yes, this is a good object lesson for everyone.

Get those wills and living wills written and filed and give copies to your attorney and put a copy in safe deposit.

However, I don't want a law made that a parent can dissolve a marriage if their child is in a coma. For better or for worse, God has established that spouses decide for their spouses if their will isn't written down otherwise, as God has established marriage as a higher and more inviolable bond that parent-child.

If new laws are needed, they are needed to insure a thorough investigation of circumstances at the time any person becomes unable to communicate, to be sure they weren't put in that state by foul play.

[summer]

Get those wills and living wills written and filed and give copies to your attorney and put a copy in safe deposit.

However, I don't want a law made that a parent can dissolve a marriage if their child is in a coma..

If you have a different wish, in writing, no law and no parent would be able to alter your wish. That was not the situation in this case. There was nothing in writing.

[summer]

God has established marriage as a higher and more inviolable bond that parent-child.

I don't know that others agree with you -- others I have talked to believe the parent-child bond is the bond that should have been honored in this matter. Not the husband-wife bond, since he eventually had another family.