Well now. I had some opinions nicely formatted in my own little brain. Until, that is, I read further down the thread. WTF is going on here?! Are there no criteria for accurately measuring her "vegetative state"? After 10 years is there really any chance of Terri coming "out of it"? What are Michael Schiavo's real motives? Can we, as a society, really just let her simply starve to death? Argh...too many questions.
First of all, allow Michael to simply walk away. Let him walk away, and get on with his life with his "other woman", with whom he has a child. But, and this is a mighty big but,....no life insurance payouts. He's done, he's clean, he's finished with it. Then his true motives will surface.
Next off, I don't know that Terri's parents are the best choice for her guardianship, either. It's a little hard for them to look on this objectively. It's not that I think that a lack of objectivety on their part is necesarily a bad thing...I just don't think that it's in Terri's best interest, at this point.
It all looks a little sketchy to me. There's only one thing that I do know for certain, and that's that I am going to call my attorney first thing next week and have a Living Will drawn up. Oh, and then hope to hell nothing happens to me over the weekend. But, if it should, for the love of whatever god(s) you pray to, don't let 'em stick me on some machine to languish for a decade, and then starve me!!!
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