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Legislature [Florida] House debate: Do organ donors' rights supersede families'?

© St. Petersburg Times published April 30, 2003
The wishes of organ donors would trump the objections of their family members under a measure debated by the House Tuesday. The little-noticed bill exposed a rare rift in the Republican-controlled House, with members split between those who said donors' wishes are sacrosanct and those who argued that family members are often astonished to learn that much of their loved one's organs and tissue might be harvested.[snip]
Most organ donors hadn't discussed with their families, Baxley said. "It's all a big surprise." And he said many survivors are distraught when they cannot have an open-casket funeral because so little remains of a body after complete tissue donation.

Many of us went to bed last Wednesday night expecting George W. Greer to pull Terri's feeding tube as early as Friday. When this did NOT happen, we breathed a tremendous sigh of collective relief. Now many are hopeful about Monday's hearing -- we hope that he will allow Terri to be fed by hand to see if she can relearn to swallow. This of course should have been done a dozen years ago.

Still, I can't help but worry that Monday night we will all be grief-stricken again as Greer orders removal of the feeding tube for later in the week.

For some reason, this case can never make be optimistic, not about Terri's fight, the elites of Pinellas Co., or the state of health and dying in FL or the nation.

Greer is pre-committed: I can't see him reversing himself.

We need another miracle as we had on Thursday. Will the TV station again be covering the proceedings live?