Listen, I don't care whether Terri was a muslim or a catholic. Nobody has shown any convincing evidence that religion has a darn thing to do with this.
I don't know whether Terri is aware or not. If you listen to the Terri crowd, she's a talking encyclopedia. If you talk to the other side, she's brain dead. Snippets of movies don't mean jack. Anybody can edit anything today to portray anything they want.
And if you don't trust your spouse to make decisions for you when you can't, you either shouldn't have married him, or you should have set your wishes out where other people could look at them and decide.
I think Terri deserves another examination and a determination based on that, but I deeply resent Congress telling me that my wife didn't say what she said unless I can somehow prove it.
Balogna. Her parents and friends have shown she was a practicing Catholic. That goes toward her views on removing food and water from disabled persons.
I don't know whether Terri is aware or not. If you listen to the Terri crowd, she's a talking encyclopedia. If you talk to the other side, she's brain dead. Snippets of movies don't mean jack. Anybody can edit anything today to portray anything they want.
What you have just described is reasonable doubt which should accrue toward the side of life. Very simple.
And if you don't trust your spouse to make decisions for you when you can't, you either shouldn't have married him, or you should have set your wishes out where other people could look at them and decide.
This is ridiculous. Doesn't deserve comment.
I think Terri deserves another examination and a determination based on that, but I deeply resent Congress telling me that my wife didn't say what she said unless I can somehow prove it.
Yeah, well if you had another gal, two kids by that gal and a million dollar trust fund waiting for you if your wife was starved to death, I would hope somebody wouldn't take you at your word.
But, you are assuming Michael is the husband she knew and trusted 18 years ago. And he is not. She is not able to say that but I suspect his new girlfriend and two children might make her think that perhaps he was not acting in her interests.
It is mighty stange that Michael didn't remember her saying she didn't want to be on life support until after he testified that he wanted to take care of her the rest of his life and then he won the million dollar lawsuit.
That's what it all comes down to. ME. Instead of looking at Terri's case, and considering it on it's own individual merits and it's unique circumstances, in as unbiased manner as humanly possible, you place it on par with your personal situation and project into it your own fears.
It doesn't sound like you married the sleaze Terri did, and you have the wisdom and foresight which comes with age (Terri was only 26 when she "collapsed") to put your wishes in writing. Thus, you aren't likely to find your self in Terri's shoes.
BTW, the legislation the house has written, concerns people who don't express such wishes in writing and therefore would exclude you.
Of course you can "prove" she said it right? (While there is sworn testimony that she said the opposite. You are aware of that, right?)