I suspect you have a different meaning for "speaking for someone who can't speak for herself" than I would. Last I heard, assisted suicide has been, and still is, illegal in Florida. Since Terri's condition wasn't terminal, even IF she did tell Michael she "wouldn't want to live that way," killing her as he did was every bit as criminal as anything the famed "Dr. Death" did, and he ended up in jail for it.
At least, in his case, the people definitely made such statements, often signed and notarized. In the Schiavo case, there was just the word of a husband who "suddenly remembered" it some years after the fact, and almost immediately after he collected his settlement for her "care." None of her family heard her say any such thing, and none of her actual friends did either--I say "actual" because a lot of people are touting her sister-in-law (Michael's sister) as her "best friend" when that was most certainly not the case.
Agreed. There have been times when, though we were still married, there is no way that the first Mr. Sova should have been given the power to decide if I lived or died. And to me, this is the issue--If I decided that I didn't want a certain medical procedure, that's my business. If my husband, living with two kids and a whore has an opinion, it should be overridden. I don't care what he wanted done with her, his opinion should have carried weight totally less than zero.
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