Reply #54: I understand how you feel... [View All]

[Orangepeel]

seeing her parents plead on TV and hearing that the poor woman is being starved to death makes it hard. It is more comfortable to think, "what's the harm in keeping her alive?" BUT...

1) she IS in a persistent vegetative state and she IS being kept alive artificially (if she could swallow or was on an IV, I might feel differently, but a tube surgically implanted in the body is artificial means). If she is NOT in a PVS, that would mean that all the court appointed doctors who have looked at her are wrong and only the charlatan who falsely claims to have nominated for a Nobel prize and never actually examined her is right.

2) This IS what she wanted. It isn't only her husband who says that and all the court decisions have found that. If it is NOT what she wanted, that would mean that her husband, her best friend, the judge who initially made that ruling and all those that agreed with him are wrong and only her parents, who are not objective are right.

3) This IS a personal, family decision. Given that she is in a PVS and is being kept alive artificially, it is her next of kin that needs to make this decision. The courts have a say only because her parents disagreed with her husband and an arbitrator was needed. Congress should have no say.