[oldenuff2no]

The state and local laws say clearly that if she can not communicate and has not made prior wishes known in varying legal documents then this decision is solely the responsibility of her husband.
I see this one taking off just like it did last time and in the end this simple fact prevailed.
Having had to face a similar situation in the past I know how difficult the husbands situation really is. I also know how hard it is to turn loose of a child.
Let this man alone. The courts have appointed someone to represent this lady. The doctors were right in the last media frenzy and the courts made the right decision.

[EternalVigilance]

The courts have appointed someone to represent this lady

Have our judicial oligarchs issued a death warrant for an innocent person yet?

...the courts made the right decision.

Since when does a court have a right to ignore the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and their state constitutions and kill uncharged, untried, unconvicted, innocent Americans, even by the most cruel and unusual of means?

People who think like you do have destroyed the cornerstone of American liberty.

[swmobuffalo]

“The doctors were right in the last media frenzy and the courts made the right decision.”

No They Weren’t.

[taraytarah]

When the spouse has given up, custody should be given back to the parents or other willing relatives. His insistence her life be taken suggests there is money or a girlfriend, or both, involved.

And wouldn't a true vegetative state negate the need for powerful pain medications???

[supercat]

The state and local laws say clearly that if she can not communicate and has not made prior wishes known in varying legal documents then this decision is solely the responsibility of her husband.

At least in Terri's case, that was not true. The only reason Mr. Schiavo was allowed to fatally dehydrate his wife is that he claimed that's what she'd said she'd want, Judge Greer apparently believed him, and no other judge was willing to question Judge Greer's judgment.

Many of us here do not believe that a man who has pledged to marry another woman as soon as his wife has died can be considered a credible witness to his wife's wishes. Further, Mr. Schiavo did everything possible to prevent an honest evaluation of Terri's condition by skilled but impartial observers. Why?