I still cannot wrap my head around the fact the entire premise of the court case between terri and her husband was an off the cuff remark terri made to her husband about “not wanting to live like that “while watching a movie....how could it end 10 or so years later by a court ordered starvation..liberalism is truly a mental illness
Consider this: If I was on camera with you during the Super Bowl and told you (in front of about 2 billion people) that I wanted you to have all my stuff when I died, it would have absolutely no force in law, because wills fall under the statute of frauds, the technical requirement that certain transactions only be conducted on paper. For example, you can't sell real estate on a handshake deal.
Yet Terri's supposed "living will" was a half-remembered decade old conversation. And the most stunning part is that there are people who don't see why that's scary. This ruling was scary even if Terri Schiavo wanted to die.