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Originally Posted by NCB
Her husband declaring years after her injury (and months after his malpractice award) that she would have wnated to be dead instead of this does not constitute evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
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You know, I'm getting very frustrated repeating myself so this is the last time I'm going to address your "arguments:"
THE HUSBAND WAS NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO TESTIFIED.
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But instead of using legal terms and such, let's just use common sense. Why didn't he declare her supposed desires early on? Why wait years after the fact? Is it too convienent to have him declare this after the litigation was completed? Maybe I'm just too much of a simpleton, but something doesn't add up here.
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If you read the ample documentation we have supplied to you, he believed too in the first couple of years that therapy might improve her condition. When it became clear that that was not the case and he realized what it would mean to have her living in a PVS forever, and ever, and ever, he petitioned the courts to have the feeding tube removed.
Ever been at the side of a dying person in a coma? Ever wished beyond hope they'd come back? Ever promised God you'd do anything to bring them back? Ever had a moment of clarity and realization that they were not ever coming back and that your wishes to have them back were not as important as the kind of "life" they would want to have?
I have (read back a few pages), and I know how quickly you can change your mind when you realize that your own selfish wishes mean nothing in the face of your love for the person lying in that bed. I don't know if Michael Schiavo is the conniving asshole he's been portrayed as in the media, but I do know that these things are a lot more complicated than most of us realize. Maybe I have some sympathy for him having walked a few yards in something like his shoes, and maybe that makes me biased. I just have a hard time understanding why people can't understand that life (or something vaguely resembling a life) is not always the answer.
And I'm going to second (third? fourth?) the call for dropping the Hitler references - they're really inappropriate and they don't do anything to further this conversation.