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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (77624)	10/16/2003 7:51:47 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Hi Holly, I just looked and you are right-- the article I read before typing had a very definite bias toward life, and gave the impression that this was partially a monetary issue, but there isn't that much money at stake at this point. Although, there again, I stop and think- wait, people have killed for a pair of Nikes. Terri received a $700,000 malpractice award in the early 1990s (doctors hadn't done enough to diagnose the potassium deficiency that led to her heart attack); husband Michael has been paying his legal fees out of it in his fight to end her life. If she dies, as her husband (he has never filed for divorce) he will receive whatever funds are left. I read that he is engaged, and would like to remarry. Had this happened to me, I would want Dan to be free to marry and have a real life. In fact, over the years, I have picked out and recommended several lovely wives for him in case I keel over. One was a terrific cook, one was very funny, one the boys liked. Oddly enough, none looked like a movie star. ANyway-- one of the facts that bothers me is that somehow Terri has been denied the normal therapy given for this type of damage, for reasons I don't quite get. We don't know what she MIGHT have achieved-So Ahem I have decided that the judge should have appointed a guardian ad litem, taken this decision away from the parents and spouse who have such emotional vested interest, and ordered rehab for a period recommended by neutral physicians. Then re-evaluate. I don't believe in keeping someone alive when there is no hope, but I have a really hard time declaring death by dehydration for someone not given every benefit of the doubt. Have you written a formal Living Will? I haven't. Dan always says I should take him out back and shoot him, which really he needs to rethink. It's just not practical. And so messy. And all I have is a BB gun.