[AntiGuv]

This is nothing like the Schiavo case. Blair had a living will and the living will was quite clear. His wife just happened to be delusional.

Ping Clark, of Chinese descent, argued that four days of Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture treatments had showed promise.

[ClancyJ]

Well, exactly where does it say - "Give me only one month for expectation of recovery"?

[agrace]

I agree, it's not really much like Terri's case, save a family dispute and a feeding tube. There is something that bothers though, and that's the rush to take him off of it. Although, this guy was on a ventilator as well, and the article doesn't say when the life support was actually removed vs when he died - it only says it was a week after the ruling.

The wife only wanted 30 more days. I know why Greer would disregard that request, but I have a hard time understanding why her kids would fight her on that. I wouldn't want to be in that family at Thanksgiving dinner, that's for sure.

[silverleaf]

His wife just happened to be delusional.

She was his spouse, his legal guardian, and BY FL LAW, entitled to make the decisions regarding his health care and his likely wishes given his condition and prognosis....

Yet the Judge gave his non-guardian children, who stood to gain financially from this man's death, the standing he refused to give Terri's parents...why?

Sheesh, Greer and the "kids-from-the-first-marriage" gave this guy 6 weeks.

[Just mythoughts]

"This is nothing like the Schiavo case. Blair had a living will and the living will was quite clear. His wife just happened to be delusional."


The moderate nobles are NOT the compassionate wing of the Republican/Conservative party.

[AmishDude]

I'd like to note that (a) the living will is really a guide for family, it's too vague in most cases to be a genuine binding document (b) this only bears a resemblance to the Schiavo case in the senses that it's a right-to-die case in which Greer ruled that disputed evidence pointed to death and that the death advocates stood to benefit from the death.

The fact is, if you have a living will, you have to resign yourself to the fact that they may starve and dehydrate you even if there is some hope.

The only thing that's telling is that Greer wouldn't even give 30 days. I'd love to know if the hospice was involved, though.