"INCLUDING ARTIFICIALLY PROVIDED SUSTENENCE AND HYDRATION, WHICH SUSTAINS, RESTORES, OR SUPPLANTS A SPONTANEOUS VITAL FUNCTION".It becomes law on October 1, 1999."
We must note that until this date, it was not considered an extraordinary measure to provide water and food in any way to a patient. Meaning, obviously, that Terri could not have anticipated that she would be denied food and water.
I'd looked into this legislation a year or so ago, trying to understand the (to me unfathomable) thought process that led the FL legislature to this change. I found a flow of thought in medical journal articles in the '80s and '90s that rationalized such treatment of patients. This is clearly an agenda.
Oh, tut, speaking of Jim King's legacy:
"State Sen. Jim King, R-Jacksonville, called the request [to Gov. Bush for a special prosecutor] an obvious tactic.Well, what's it to him if they do?"The plan seems to be to elongate this as much as they can, and there's going to be all kinds of that in the coming weeks," King said.'
What is this to Sen. King that he has to take such cheap shots at a family?
King isn't interested in anything that doesn't benefit him directly in one way or another, IMO.
He had a hissy that UF did not open the chiropractic college. . . what's it to him? Did he lose some money over that? Course we'll never know the answer to that one but King will have strong resistance if he runs for reelection.
I haven't looked lately, but Sen King used to be on the Board of Directors of some of Florida's Death Mills. Talk about a conflict of interest. You get to pass the laws that your Death Mill benefits from.
I say boycott the whole state until they get their act together.
Re:Florida Elder Affairs---
Did you see this today---
Green named elder affairs chief
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050301/NEWS01/503010433/1075