Casey Kasem's Wife on Decision to Pull Life Support: 'You Have Blood on Your Hands'

LOS ANGELES, June 11 (UPI)--Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel S. Murphy ruled Wednesday Casey Kasem's daughter, Kerri Kasem, can make medical decisions for her 82-year-old father, who is currently in a Washington hospice care facility.

Murphy's decision reinstates Kerri's previous conservatorship and reverses another ruling ordering doctors to continue to medicate and artificially feed the ailing former DJ.

"It would be acutely harmful for Mr. Kasem to have nutrition and hydration restored at this time," the judge said. "This was at the advisement of doctors at St. Anthony's."

Kerri and two of her siblings, Julie and Mike, said they wanted to end their father's pain. He is suffering from Lewy body dementia.

Administering food and water is not keeping someone alive artificially.

Also, Kasem has been married for more than thirty years. His wife should be in charge of her husband’s welfare. That’s not just common sense — it’s the law. And she’s got a power of attorney he signed in 2011. What basis is there for overriding THOSE wishes of her husband?

The judge is discriminating against Jean Kasem because she’s not a cool, media savvy young stepdaughter in a conservative business suit. She’s an old lady with dyed blond hair. There’s not a shred of evidence she’s incompetent, or not acting in her husband’s best interests. Oh, the stepdaughter is married to a doctor? Then she indubitably knows what’s best for her father, with whom she’s been feuding for years. Perfectly good reason to ignore the law and put her in charge!

And absent a will that states otherwise, Jean Kasem can and should get everything, kids. The house she put up for sale in the Holmby Hills in 2013 for $42 million? That’s hers. That’s marital property. When the husband dies, the wife gets everything. That’s how it works. She may or may not make provision for his children in her own will. Probably not, because they’re making her life hell now.

And people who stand to profit (or think they might, like these entitled moneygrubbing kids) should have no part in the decision to kill someone in the hospital.

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