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Depends on the state. Go to your state's Medical Society (Texas's information is here) and look up "Directive" or "Natural Death Act") I'm putting together a list of resources for another site, so if you need information on your state, let me know and I'll probably have it in about an hour.

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True. You got there before I could edit my post.

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We should create a new thread - under the Fashion Board, since it appears to be dead today. (Ba dum bum.)

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So 11 courts reviewing didn't give enough attention to the issue?

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Including the present circumstances, no doubt. I suspect Hank would agree.

If you search "healthcare proxy" and your state, several will pop up. Please note that if there are questions about your mental competance, you may need to have a guardian sign for you.

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Even flimsier when you realize, as was pointed out earlier, that most of the money has gone to the hubby's lawyers. He won't see very much.

As for Ms. Schiavo being "awake, smiling at her parents and her eyes light up when she sees them", we went over this last week. The consensus among doctors in the field, including those who have examined her, is that these are at best autonomic reflexes and that her cerebral cortex is gone. For all intensive purposes, she is brain dead and there is no hope of recovery.

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Her "eyes light up"? WTF are you ON? How can you tell that she is suffering pain when denied water? Have you watched unedited videotapes?

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I thought this discussion was started over at Lawyers With Kids, so I replied to your query there, but I'll cross post b/c this seems like a better forum for the discussion. Here's a good summary of the case to date. It includes links to the court holdings so far, in case you want to read up on the exact findings by the courts.

http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html

I think her husband has carried the fight for guardianship on out of an honest belief that this is what she would have wanted. That takes a lot of courage when there are people out there ready to vilify him for his own personal life and his beliefs. He's lived a long time with this.

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What it stands for and what the sheep think it stands for just shows how dumb the sheep are. The blind followers, also known as Slave, are the people who drive me nuts. At least Bilmore is capable of being objective. Many of these sheep are highly intelligent people who refuse to look objectively. They first look to liberal opposition of the issue before analyzing the actual issue. My dead grandfather, founding father of his town's Republican Party, would be embarrassed at the direction current "Republicans" are taking this country.



Vote Libertarian!

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Geez, this is way fucking harder than people keep saying. And I have to pay for it??? Christ, what a pita.

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I was agreeing with GiGi, and expressing amazement that this continuing and apparent process has resulted in an R presidency, along with control of both houses.

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Was this intentional? B/c it's a great saying.

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mmmm sheep......

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I am curious about your reasoning. Why flawed? Who should be the presumptive medical guardian of a married adult living outside the home? I haven't taken a poll, but I suspect that most married folks would want/expect their spouses to be in that role.

Does it affect the analysis that he began the new relationship ("abandoned his marriage" as stated in the pleading Burger linked) more than _five years_ after his wife entered the "persistent vegetative state"? That he first began to dispute her treatment with her parents more than _three years_ after his wife entered that persistent vegetative state?

How long must he sit by the bedside and mourn?

So her parents say. But -- its been just over _fifteen_ years, and they're still saying that the miracle will bring her back. The pleading also complains that the husband denied their efforts to wheel Terri into church for Mass. [They also complain that he wants to cremate her rather than bury her ("in violation of her religion"). Baloney -- Catholics are frequently cremated.)

Also -- they aren't sliding cheeseburgers and milkshakes down that tube. Keeping someone alive via artificial nutrition and hydration requires sophisticated monitoring and maintenance. it is not trivial.

The figure in the news reports was $ 1 million. Some loony rich Briton.

S_A_M

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"Pita"?

I could send you our Health Care Durable Power of Attorney form, but they'd have to ship you to Minnesota before unplugging you, I think.