[hugh59]

Perhaps Governor Bush should be less direct in his efforts to save Terri. Florida law only allows termination of life support for patients with a specific diagonisis of PVS. The diagnosis for Terri was made many years ago. Perhaps the Florida legislature should amend that statute permitting such terminations of life support and add a requirement that, before such a life support termination can be carried out, a corroborative diagnosis of PVS must be made within six months prior to the life support termination.

The major concern is that Terri's life may be terminated based on a flawed diagnosis...such a statute would give the Governor a chance to save her, and would prevent future abuses in the future.

Hugh Greentree
Columbus, Ohio

[tutstar]

There is supposed to be an evaluation before "life support" is removed. They don't even have a doc's sig on the paperwork admitting Terri to hospice.

The law doesn't apply to Greer and Greer doesn't apply the law.

[supercat]

Perhaps Governor Bush should be less direct in his efforts to save Terri. Florida law only allows termination of life support for patients with a specific diagonisis of PVS. The diagnosis for Terri was made many years ago. Perhaps the Florida legislature should amend that statute permitting such terminations of life support and add a requirement that, before such a life support termination can be carried out, a corroborative diagnosis of PVS must be made within six months prior to the life support termination.

More importantly, there must be a protocol by which doctors who want to show non-PVS are allowed to do so and override those who want to show PVS. Some of Dr. Death Cranford's PVS diagnoses are so patently unreasonable one would think he was looking in a mirror.