Posted on 03/11/2005 3:31:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The husband of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo has rejected a one (m) million dollar offer to drop his efforts to remove her feeding tube.
Michael Schiavo's attorney George Felos says that other offers already have been made and rejected. Felos called the offer offensive.
The woman's parents are trying to keep their 41-year-old daughter alive, but Michael Schiavo contends he once promised his wife he would not keep her alive by artificial means.
Terri Schiavo suffered a heart attack and severe brain damage 15 years ago.
The Pinellas County woman has lived in what court-appointed doctors call a persistent vegetative state since then.
San Diego businessman Robert Herring said yesterday that he would pay Michael Schiavo one (m) million dollars if he transfers the legal right to decide his wife's medical treatment to the Schindlers.
The offer will remain on the table until Monday.
To predict what Michael will do just ask yourself:
"What would Satan do?"
Also works for predicting output of the Florida Supreme Court and the 9th Circus Court of Appeals.
The hoax starts with the offer
I did not already know some of the things you pointed out, like the fact that her husband would not let anyone feed her.
I do still hold my opinion about being kept alive by machines. One thing is for SURE about this case and that is the importance of everyone having a LIVING WILL.
In 1992, a failure to put anything to the contrary in writing was an unambiguous affirmation of one's desire to be given food and water. It's only retroactively that any sort of oral declaration from that era has been deemed to mean anything.
"In 1992, a failure to put anything to the contrary in writing was an unambiguous affirmation of one's desire to be given food and water. It's only retroactively that any sort of oral declaration from that era has been deemed to mean anything."
That hasn't been true since at least 1986 and the Court's decision in Corbett v. Alessandro, where the appellate Court held that patients have a right to refuse medical treatment based on the right to privacy found in both the Florida Constitution (Article I, section 23) and the U.S. Constitution. The court specifically found that artificial feeding fell into the category of "extraordinary treatment" that could be withheld or withdrawn, without limitation by the legislature. The court also found that patients like Corbett (in a PVS, with no reasonable prospect of regaining cognitive brain function) may have their right to refuse treatment put into effect by a third party. In Corbett, the third party was the patient's husband.
[Corbett v. Alessandro, 487 So. 2d 368 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App.), review denied, 492 So. 2d 1331 (Fla. 1986)].
This was reiterated in 1990 with the decision in In re Guardianship of Browning. The Florida Supreme Court declared that an individual has the right to refuse medical treatment, regardless of his or her medical condition. The U.S. Supreme Court, in Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, charged the judicial system with being the “fact finder” to determine if a terminally ill person clearly intended to be kept alive artificially. The ACLU filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief in that case, which granted Nancy Cruzan the right to have her feeding tube removed based on “clear and convincing” evidence that she would not have wanted to prolong her life by such invasive means.
Thus surrogate or proxy may exercise the constitutional right of privacy for an incompetent person who, while competent, expressed his or her wishes to discontinue artificial life-prolonging procedures.
[In re Guardianship of Browning, 568 So. 2d 4 (Fla. 1990). Court Florida Supreme Court Year 1990]
So in 1992 "a failure to put anything to the contrary in writing" was NOT an "unambiguous affirmation of one's desire to be given food and water", and an oral declaration did indeed mean something.
Oh really? you suspect the offer was phoney because Gloria Allred seems to be liberal on most issues?
I dont believe Gloria would take part in a hoax that aided Michael.
Gloria came out on Terri's side a year and a half ago.
She had the opportunity to put her own father down by
removing his food and hydration but she wouldn't do it.
Yes, thank God we have some good investigative journalists at The Empire Journal. Reporting done the good old-fashioned way. See http://www.theempirejournal.com for the latest developments.
You should also be aware that a feeding tube is not a machine. It is a tool, but not a machine. Huge difference. Before you make out a living will, be very certain that you understand explicitly what each and every item means. They are not the panacea that the mainstream media is trying to get us to believe that they are.
Here's a link that will help you to understand some of the trickery involved in living wills. Please make sure to read it all, as it is long. Bookmark it if you have to.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1352657/posts?page=5273#5273
I wonder what chance she thinks she will have after witnessing him squander this kind of time, effort, and money trying to KILL his own wife?
I can't imagine what she's thinking. "Isn't he just the sweetest thing? He spent $850,000 to kill his first wife, just so he could marry ME!"
At the hands of her husband.
It's classic "it won't happen to me, I'm too wonderful" vanity.
Yeah -- especially when he could just divorce her, and then legally marry the other chick. But then they couldn't get married in the Catholic Church. Oh yes, that's so important to people like them.
What are their kids gonna think when they grow up and figure out what 'daddy' spent all this time doing in court when they were little?
ugh.
A priest that would marry them in the Church in those circumstances should be excommunicated - but they'll probably find one ...
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