[Alberta's Child]

Unbelievable.

For a judge hearing the Schiavo case to be ignorant about the Quinlan case (even aside from the clear mistake he made in his decision regarding the dates) is preposterous. The whole point of the Quinlan case was that her parents had petitioned for (and received) the legal authority to remove her from a ventilator, but steadfastly insisted that her feeding tube must remain in place when Karen remained alive against everyone's expectations. That's why she lived for nine years after her family "pulled the plug."

[Victoria Delsoul]

It was in 2000 when Michael miraculously remembered Terri's wishes. Ten years prior to that that while getting a fat settlement to “take care of Terri,” he never once mentioned Terri's desire to die. Imagine trying to win a lawsuit by saying .... I need the money to end my wife's life. Nope, he never said a word.

"Terri made mention at that conversation that, "If I ever go like that, just let me go. Don't leave me there. I don't want to be kept alive on a machine,"' Scott Schiavo, Michael Schiavo's brother, told lawyers years afterward.

“As lawyers and the public debate Mrs. Schiavo's life, a look back at hundreds of pages of court transcripts reveals testimony largely forgotten in the national debate about her right to die.

That testimony helped a judge decide in 2000 that Mrs. Schiavo, left severely brain damaged after collapsing in 1990, would not want to be kept alive by artificial means.

Like almost everything in the case, recollections about Mrs. Schiavo's words are disputed. Some remembrances are called outright inventions. LINK