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Case Similar to Terri Schiavo's Has Wife Deciding Her Husband's Fate by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor May 15, 2005 Jacksonville, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A case similar to that of Terri Schiavo has a Florida woman holding her husband's fate in her hands. Schiavo's family is calling on Jacksonville resident Eliza Thomas to allow her husband to live. Scott Thomas suffered brain injury in September of 2004 and has since been incapacitated and dependent on others. As with Terri, Scott's wife is seeking to move him to a hospice and remove the gastric tube that provides him with food and water....

Springfield, VA.- In 1994 Hugh Finn made his living by reporting on the celebrity of others. He was a TV news anchor in the Louisville, Kentucky area where he and his wife and two daughters lived. In 1998 Hugh Finn made headlines of his own after a court ruled that he could be made to die. A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Finn started his early broadcast career at radio stations near his home. He later broke into television as a weatherman at WBRE-TV in Wilkes-Barre. In 1981 Finn was hired by WAVE-TV in Louisville. He worked there until 1994 when...

John J. Paris, S.J., is professor of bioethics at Boston College, in Massachusetts. ONCE AGAIN A "RIGHT TO DIE" case has captured national attention. What brought the issue to the fore this time were actions by some members of the family of Hugh Finn and by Governor James S. Gilmore 3rd of Virginia, who sought to block the removal of a feeding tube from Mr. Finn, who was being cared for in a nursing home in Virginia. The facts in the case are relatively straightforward. Hugh Finn, a popular, 44-year-old news anchorperson in Louisville, Ky., ruptured his aorta in 1995...