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Can't understand everyones support for killing her. No one knows what she would have wanted. The husbands claim that he knew she would have wanted to die came up 7 years after the accident. How come he didn't say anything earlier?
The real issue here is that a judge decided that someone's life wasn't worth living so he ordered her to be killed. I have a friend who had a stroke that lives a life not much better than hers. Should a judge be allowed to kill him? Who decides that? My friend needs someone to help him eat which is not much different than a feeding tube. Should a judge be allowed to order that everyone stops feeding him, cuz his no good wife & kids wants him dead already. ( I bought him a dvd player and went back a month later and it was in his college age son's room, a real little bast***Wife moved out over 5 years ago but still hasn't divorced him and he doesn't have the heart for it.)
This wasn't the same as stopping a ventilator or withholding medicine in the case where they were suffering from a fatal illness. This was a healthy person who could have lived for untold years and who knows what may have happened in the future.
Also in those cases where fatal illnesses are involved they usually put the person on a morphine drip and they depart while in lala land. Here they starved a person who may have been able to feel something without any pain medication because if they did give her pain medication it would have meant that she was able to feel and that wouldhave defeated their arguments of brain death.
In this case considering that noone knew what she wanted and there was a possibility that she was aware at some level and might improve you err on the side of caution and let her live. You don't try and imagine what she wanted since we all imagine a little differently. No court should have the power to kill someone because they don't feel their life is worth living. They did not let her die which I might not have such a problem with, but actively sought to kill her which I do have a problem with. IMHO Take care all.
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