[Cold Heat]

I have seen and interacted with many brain damaged people, and those with defects.

That is not what is going on here. These activists and others have twisted this beyond what it is.

What this is, can only be described as a death that was interrupted while there was hope for a modest recovery, but what has occurred was degradation and there is no hope any longer.

that is how the husband sees it, and he does not want to keep her in a protracted state of absolute misery with no awareness and constant muscular distress as indicated by the more sensible of assessments and the majority assessment as well.

He wants to allow her to move on to the next existence, as her time here is misery, any way you look at it.

But he did not, and is not making that decision, because he can't.

He petitioned the courts to do it, and they have. He would have lived with it either way. But now he will help her achieve the finality of death, rather than existence in between.

This is a act of compassion, not anger or greed. It has been made and approved by the courts.

That is the way I see it. and believe me when I say I have seen the so called evidence in this attempt to besmirch him.

The damage will be done by Federal interference in this matter. There are no guidelines that can be written by man to address this. These decisions are made case by case and are supposed to stay private for a very good reason.

This situation could bring laws that do not discern between those who want to pass on and those who do not. Between conditions that can be lived with and those that can't. That is what happens when protocols take the place of family held values and decisions.

Legislators, at the behest of a ill informed public, are making a huge mistake. One that we may not be able to fix.

[Hildy]

Thank you. Your rational common sense is a welcomed pleasure. Be ready for the hateful messages about to come your way.

[Hildy]

See post 1274. I wish I had wrote that!

[Earthdweller]

"...that is how the husband sees it, and he does not want to keep her in a protracted state of absolute misery with no awareness and constant muscular distress as indicated by the more sensible of assessments and the majority assessment as well."

If it is a case of constant intractable pain I could understand that she might be in "misery" but in most cases muscular distress is intermittent and easily managed with the right medications.

This is a very common problem with brain damaged folks..but I guess you know that.

Still..I refer to that smile as my evidence of her will to live.

[AndrewC]

Legislators, at the behest of a ill informed public, are making a huge mistake. One that we may not be able to fix.

Wrong. It is called a living will. That is what Terri lacked and Michael tried to summon up.