It is the same as our Terri Schiavo case, here. Only in Terri’s case, her “husband” wanted her dead for obvious reasons. Her family wanted to keep her alive, at their own expense, but the courts sided with the murder.., er, husband.......
Exactly.
i have to say, that over the past few years I had become rather dissappointed with my native US given how some things have shaped up there for me personally after a divorce, and politically.
But seeing this happen here in Queensland, and the lack of local media coverage, makes me really appreciate home (US). This same thing would NOT happen back home in Austin.
“Where does it say that this man is a “vegetable”?” - yep. And again, why is it even an issue here? Why should a family have to file a lawsuit in a hostile court, in order to keep a murdering doctor from showing such lethal compassion? It’s really sick. I hope the US doesn’t follow suit with similar governments in the future. Mostly though, I hope this person the court has ordered doctors here to kill changes its mind; and I hope the public here (and elsewhere) slows down for long enough to do something about it.
The family is united in it's desire to keep him on life support, and there is no dispute about who (of the family members) has the legal right to speak for the afflicted person.
This is the government overriding the families will.
This is not like the Schiavo case, from what I can tell. We’re talking about life-support, which Terri did not need.