there is so much out there on this that i can not go
either way on the "husband." you make some sense, but,
there are other things i have saw and heard that make
sense.

--- Kathy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As to regards a feed tube, that's a matter of
> individual opinion, and if a
> person has expressed the wish not to be on one, that
> should be honored.
>
> Foul play by whom?  I have heard that many
> investigations have been done and
> no evidence has been found that the husband has
> meant harm.  In fact, he
> strikes me as a person who is stubbornly stuck to
> the principle that he wants
> to honor his wife's wish that she not be kept alive
> if she were in a
> vegetative state.  If his motive were truely money,
> he could have accepted
> one of several offers of huge sums of money and
> simply walked away.  True, he
> and his wife got a million dollars in a malpractice
> suit settlement but most
> of that has gone to take care of Terri and to lawyer
> fees.  Yes, he's living
> with another woman, but I think it shows a certain
> level of committment to
> his wife that he has not divorced her to let her
> parents take over and keep
> her alive against her wishes.  If he'd thrown up his
> hands and said, "Let
> them take over, I don't care any more," he could
> have divorced her and no one
> would really have blamed him.  He's still a young
> man and has his own life.
> There is no real evidence that he abused her, so
> again, no real evidence of
> foul play in that regard.  If anything, if there has
> been foul play, I'd say
> it would be the doctors if they  misdiagnosed
> Terri's condition, and the
> lawyers because sure as hell no one else is making
> any money out of this.
>
> Therefore since there has been no evidence of foul
> play on the part of
>  Michael Shiavo, the government has no business
> stepping in and intervening
>  in an end-of-life decision that properly belongs to
> the husband.   I
>  sympathise with her parents - it's horrible losing
> your child - but he is
>  her husband, he is her legal guardian, and he has
> the sole right to make
>  decisions for her since she has no means of
> expressing her wishes.  Even the
>  State of Florida, when it tried to take
> guardianship away from the husband
>  couldn't succeed as the courts found no evidence
> that he is an unfit
>  guardian.
>
> I'd bet if Terri were the child and Michael her
> parent, none of this would
> have been in question.
>
> Kat
>
> On Thursday 24 March 2005 5:12 am, Tamar Raine
> wrote:
> > Many people do not consider feeding tubes to be
> artificial means. I have
> > met a few adults with cp who ate that way. It's
> just an alternate means of
> > feeding. I agree however that Terri should die in
> peace, but I do not
> > believe she should be starved for two weeks to do
> it, for heaven's sake,
> > give her an injection.  I furthermore believe that
> even in marriage, if a
> > spouse is suspected of foul play that the spouse
> should not have the right
> > to terminate their partner, and this is what I
> think has happened in the
> > Schiavo case.
>
>
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