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Maybe he still cared about her in the beginning when he still had hope of her recovery, but then wearied of it all and just wanted her dead.

Taking up with another woman is understandable under the circumstances, but it should invalidate him from being her guardian due to conflict of interest and other issues.

This article is slanted the way everything else is you read about the case no matter who you side with. The truth is probably somewhere in between and the bottom line is murder by starvation.

There is little objectivity on either side, moreso by the pro-death crowd. I excuse the parents who love her if they have been forced to misrepresent anything in the least little way. Under the circumstances, it could be morally justified.

No matter what the facts leading up to this happen to be, she is as of this moment being murdered by starvation, with her husband and lawyer as the primary agents, and the courts as the enablers who seem to want to wash their hands of the entire affair because it has become a nuisance to them, too.

There are other aspects of all this which should have been investigated that were swept under the carpet. That is reprehensible.

Thanks for you comments... Allow me to share a letter from the former president of my college that he wrote when he resigned because his wife was diagnosed with dimentia. I think it speaks volumes... not about the competing opinions of doctors but about love in situations like this.

Dr. McQuilkin, a former missionary to Japan, and a professor of the Scriptures took the institution that his father founded, and built it into one of the leading Christian colleges and graduate schools today.

In the letter he writes, "The decision to come to Columbia was the most difficult I have had to make; the decision to leave 22 years later, though painful, was one of the easiest. It was almost as if God engineered the circumstances so that I had no alternatives...

My dear wife, Muriel, has been in failing mental health for about eight years. So far I have been able to carry both her ever-growing needs and my leadership responsibility at the college. But recently it has become apparent that Muriel is contented most of the time she is with me and almost none of the time I am away from her. It is not just "discontent." She is filled with fear - even terror - that she has lost me and always goes in search of me when I leave home (She has a form of dementia).

The decision (to resign) was made, in a way, 42 years ago when I promised to care for Muriel "in sickness and in health...till death do us part." So, as I told the students and faculty, as a man of my word, integrity has something to do with it. But so does fairness. She has cared from me fully and sacrificially all these years; if I cared for her for the next 40 years I would not be out of debt. Duty, however, can be grim and stoic. But there is more: I love Muriel. She is a delight to me - her childlike dependence and confidence in me, her warm love, occasional flashes of that wit I used to relish so, her happy spirit and tough resilience in the face of her continual distressing frustration. I don't have to care for her, I get to! It is a high honor to care for so wonderful a person.