Of course, but when you begin to DEVIATE from the written LAW, then you have nothing left. It's ALREADY bad enough with frivolous lawsuits that the TAXPAYER funds. Who is funding Terry's care? Michael? Her parents? The TAXPAYERS?
I ask myself when is enough enough?
Bottom line: HAVE A LIVING WILL.
From an op-ed in today's WSJ by James Q. Wilson, "Killing Terri."
But scholars have shown that we have greatly exaggerated the benefits of living wills. Studies by University of Michigan Professor Carl Schneider and others have shown that living wills rarely make any difference. People with them are likely to get exactly the same treatment as people without them, possibly because doctors and family members ignore the wills. And ignoring them is often the right thing to do because it is virtually impossible to write a living will that anticipates and makes decisions about all the many, complicated, and hard to foresee illnesses you may face.