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To: general_re
I'm sorry, but "clear and convincing evidence" should consist of a bit more than comments that are little more than hearsay, and not even believable ones at that. Using this judge's logic, we'd all better be careful on even making throwaway comments, like "I wanted to die" after seeing something bad, because such flimsy evidence will be our own death sentences. And that has nothing to do with the law, but the judge.

One other thing -- aren't you the least bit curious as to Michael Schiavo waited until *after* winning the malpractice suits against the doctors to tell a judge about Terri's wish to die? He constantly says that he is merely fulfilling her wishes, yet he waited a good eight years before actually attempting to act on her alleged wish.

2,496 posted on 03/31/2005 7:31:50 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: NYCVirago
He constantly says that he is merely fulfilling her wishes, yet he waited a good eight years before actually attempting to act on her alleged wish.

Us Yankee fans are never wrong NYCV!

2,500 posted on 03/31/2005 7:35:56 PM PST by bjs1779 (I fed Terri small mouthfuls of Jello, which she swallowed and enjoyed immensely" Cna H.Law 1997)
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To: NYCVirago
I'm sorry, but "clear and convincing evidence" should consist of a bit more than comments that are little more than hearsay, and not even believable ones at that.

"Believable" is in the eye of the beholder - it's a judgement call, limited by the extent and fallibility of human judgement, unless and until we perfect those law-dispensing machines.

One other thing -- aren't you the least bit curious as to Michael Schiavo waited until *after* winning the malpractice suits against the doctors to tell a judge about Terri's wish to die? He constantly says that he is merely fulfilling her wishes, yet he waited a good eight years before actually attempting to act on her alleged wish.

There is an alternate explanation, of course - he honestly wished for and hoped for her recovery at first, and he did apparently take steps in the early years to promote her recovery. Then as time passed and it became clear that she was not going to recover, he began considering what she might have wanted in such an event. Obviously, I don't read minds, and hence cannot say what was really going through his head at any given moment, but some process like that that would seem to explain the sequence of events fairly plausibly.

2,503 posted on 03/31/2005 7:38:31 PM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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