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Tell me about the Finn case in a nutshell and how this affected, was it, Governor Warner in VA. I know nothing about the case but do remember seeing the name "Finn" somewhere on this post.

What you are writing seems to indicate that there is indeed much broader support for euthanasia than many conservatives had thought. Money talks, as the old adage goes.

Hugh Finn was a victim of his greedy and ugly wife, who had him moved from Kentucky to Virginia because she wanted to kill him. Hugh's immediate family were incredibly committed and involved, hard fighters, like Terri's family, and in the end the governor actually ended up suing Hugh's wife for trying to kill him.

But she killed him anyway, see my FR page for some links on him. The thing is that afterward she sued the state of Virginia and the governor for interfering in her personal affairs, and initially, at least won her legal fees from the state. Though I think later it was reversed.

Delegate Bob Marshall, whom I just emailed asking his ideas for Terri, actually, was very involved in Hugh's case.

Hugh wanted to live

hugh finn

And yes, I think you are correct. This is where my stance has been. They had loads and loads of protesters in Missouri for both Nancy Cruzan and Christine Busalacchi, even caretakers who took out huge newspaper ads. Some 300 people with signs outside the hospital rooms of Hugh Finn and Nancy Cruzan. Especially with Hugh, the media was all over it because he had been one of them.

I am waiting for a miracle or the courts to completely turn around on this one, because in reading all of these past cases, not much else seemed to make a difference.

Michele Finn

"Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax) introduced the measure, which would pay Finn the $48,000 she spent last fall fighting Gilmore's unsuccessful effort to persuade the Virginia Supreme Court to effectively prevent Finn from having the tube removed last fall. The governor wanted the high court to reverse a lower-court ruling that Hugh Finn was in a "persistent vegetative state" as the result of a 1995 automobile accident."