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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (13698)10/24/2003 10:16:28 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 793622
 
This is a difficult example because the husband seems to be such a jerk and the parents seem so hopeful. But we don't know all the details and perhaps after thirteen years of dealing with this he's just worn out and cranky and they're just dreaming.

I don't know how many cases like this there are in any given year. How common is it that a young woman whose family desperately wants to save her life even as a "vegetable" clashes with a husband who seems just as hell-bent on pulling the plug?

As a lawyer who spends too much time in family court (I am trying to minimize this), my assumption is that in protracted family litigation, at least one of the parties is dysfunctional, maybe both. They aren't fighting about the issues being litigated, they're fighting about something else. Pride. Control. Money. Power.

Terry Schiavo's husband has spend many, many thousands (hundreds of thousands, as I understand it) of dollars of Terry's money that could have gone towards rehabilitation in the effort to kill her. As I understand it, rehabilitation was never tried, despite the fact that he told the jury that this is what the money was for.

There are a lot of reasons this case catches the public eye, but for me, that's the most compelling.
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