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I cannot find reason to feel the outrage that you seem to feel. Concern, yes. outrage, no.

I think it's because people tend to put themselves in the other's shoes. If it were *your* daughter -- you'd be outraged that the courts were ignoring your pleas and the value of your daughter's life.

I am concerned and downright frightened that the line is going to be blurred further and further as to who is worth keeping alive, and who just just be rubbed out to save us the effort of keeping them alive. Yet we throw TONS of cash at people who are perfectly ABLE to work and produce, and don't do it. What an Alice in Wonderland we live in.

This is the first I've heard of this story. From that perspective, let me say this: Once a person is married, they no longer belong to their parents, but to their spouse. This is, therefore, her husbands decision.

Second thing: If she is "brain dead" and being kept alive artificially, It is not killing, it is letting the body do what is inevitable. The only reasons for keeping such a person alive are 1) They are waiting for a non-pie-in-the-sky procedure to be done to bring them "back to life"; or 2) Their loved ones want to keep the umpty husk of a biological machine alive for old times sake.

The answer in the former case is to pray for them and then pull the plug. If God wants to use this particular case to prove His power or make some other point that needs making to anyone that witnesses the event, she will recover.

The answer in the latter case is that a case could be made that she is a pawn of those that just want her around, like a big breathing teddy bear, with matching brain function. That is a very selfish position. Of course some of them hope against hope that MAN will find a solution. Maybe they should look at the God solution, which is significantly more plausible - AND real.

If there were no money involved, the hubby would not be seen as such a monster.

And yes, we have personal experience with this kind of situation.