What is your evidence that Terri wished to be kept alive artificially?
Why do you believe that Terri Schiavo didn't have the right not to be starved and dehydrated to death?
Pay close attention, so I don't have to repeat myself again: I believe that Terri DID NOT wish to be kept alive in a PVS state. The court ruled, and was upheld, that there was clear and convincing evidence of this. I have seen no substantiated evidence to the contrary. So I have no reason to disbelieve the judgment of the court regarding her wishes.
Since when does an innocent person have to prove they want to live and deserve to live. It was never proven that Terri wanted to be starved and dehydrated to death, nor that she deserved such a fate. There was a preponderance of evidence to the contrary. You lying about it, Judge Greer lying about it, and any other liar lying about it, doesn't change the facts.
>> (#332) You, on the other hand, have no substantive evidence that this was NOT her wish.
Yes, we do.
There was no substantiated evidence to support hearsay from either side. That's the trouble with alleged private conversations. You can't prove they occurred, nor can you disprove anyone's lies. They are useless as evidence. For a judge to accept such trash from an interested party is "clear and convincing evidence" only of his own incompetence or bias.
But we do have a deposition from Michael's girl friend, Cindy Shook, who said he told her repeatedly that he didn't know Terri's wishes. Not long before Terri's death, Michael once again admitted the same thing -- that he did not know Terri's wishes -- on Larry King Live:
KING: Do you understand how they [the Schindlers] feel?
M. SCHIAVO: Yes, I do. But this is not about them, it's about Terri. And I've also said that in court. We didn't know what Terri wanted, but this is what we want...
This is Michael's own unguarded comment. It has the ring of truth. In fact, we can take it to be true because he'd have to be dumber than rocks to dream up a lie that implicates him in perjury.
Michael's sole moral defense is that Terri "wanted" to die. But as he admitted on LKL, it was his own wish for her to die, not hers. He didn't know what she wanted.