[napscoordinator]

Well I can say that I am serious about the money. Why should you or I pay? You probably are not a conservative but I am.

[ReneeLynn]

You sound more like Obama than a conservative. He agrees with you that these people should just die.

[DJ MacWoW]

You probably are not a conservative but I am.

Now that's funny as everytime I talk to you I get freepmails that you're a troll. And I agree.

[bgill]

Well I can say that I am serious about the money. Why should you or I pay? You probably are not a conservative but I am.

I am as conservative as they come but you'd sentence someone to a horrible death to save a buck? It's one thing they demand my tax dollar to pay for tummy tucks and sex changes and I'd stand with you on that, but I think I can handle my share of the expense of keeping someone comfortable in their last days with a drink of water.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Terri Sciavo was not dependent on the state nor on public funding. She had been awarded $1 million in 1992 as result of a medical malpractice lawsuit, money deposited to a fund which was supposed to be used to pay for her medical expenses. Her estranged husband Michael had control of these funds, and he and his live-in girlfriend stood to benefit financially if Terri died.

Moreover, Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, volunteered to care for her and assume her expenses, if need be, letting Michael keep the money! But Judge Greer wouldn't even permit that,

I have gotten odd responses from a handful of people about the Schiavo case, but fortunately, none who openly opined that an estranged husband ought to be allowed to rid himself of his disabled wife by starving her to death.