Reply #121: I don't know any either.... [View All]

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I'm not disagreeing with you that they're whacked. The point is that there's more than enough nuttiness going around on this thing.

I've got a young daughter. Looking at her now, if something terrible happened to her like happened in this case and her husband tried to cause her death and I didn't think that she actually had wanted to die, I'd be nuts too. I seriously doubt that I'd be as restrained as the Schindlers have been....yes, they've fought this in the courts, they've brought tons of publicity to it, they've ranted and raved on TV, but if it were me I think I'd probably take the husband "out" even though it meant a sure prison sentence, knowing that guardianship would chop to my wife and my baby would be saved. Would I be nuts when doing it? Probably, from a mental health standpoint, but not from a legal standpoint. Now if she had left a living will and specified what she wanted? Well, that's her choice, and I'd honor it.

You can't know what you'd do in such an extreme situation until you've actually had to do it. I hope I never have to face something like that. I'm sure my baby's future to-be-determined husband hopes I never have to face that situation, too. ;)