Thank you, Supremes...
Jan. 25th, 2005 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Court backs Florida right to die
The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Florida Governor Jeb Bush to keep a badly brain-damaged woman alive.
Judges refused to change a ruling by the Florida courts to allow Terri Schiavo's feeding tube to be removed.
The 41-year-old has been incapacitated and kept alive artificially since she collapsed at her Florida home in 1990.
But a stay on her death remains in place while her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, try to have her husband removed as his wife's legal guardian.
Michael Schiavo asked a Florida court to have the tube removed in 1998, testifying that his wife had told him she would not want to be kept alive under such conditions.
The Schindlers argue Mr Schiavo has a conflict of interest because he now lives with another woman, with whom he has two children.
And now they are trying to have the husband removed a legal guardian... Good Grief! He seems to be the only one wanting to do what is RIGHT for this poor woman.
A note to all the folks on my friends list... If I am ever in that kind of condition, PLEASE let the authorities know I want the plug pulled.
Court backs Florida right to die
The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Florida Governor Jeb Bush to keep a badly brain-damaged woman alive.
Judges refused to change a ruling by the Florida courts to allow Terri Schiavo's feeding tube to be removed.
The 41-year-old has been incapacitated and kept alive artificially since she collapsed at her Florida home in 1990.
But a stay on her death remains in place while her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, try to have her husband removed as his wife's legal guardian.
Michael Schiavo asked a Florida court to have the tube removed in 1998, testifying that his wife had told him she would not want to be kept alive under such conditions.
The Schindlers argue Mr Schiavo has a conflict of interest because he now lives with another woman, with whom he has two children.
And now they are trying to have the husband removed a legal guardian... Good Grief! He seems to be the only one wanting to do what is RIGHT for this poor woman.
A note to all the folks on my friends list... If I am ever in that kind of condition, PLEASE let the authorities know I want the plug pulled.
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Date: 2005-01-25 05:44 pm (UTC)Today, in the Incapacitated Jimbo case, dozens of Livejournalers testified that, in an entry written on January 25, 2005, Jim stated that he wanted the "plug pulled". Many of the witnesses came with screen captures.
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Date: 2005-01-25 10:09 pm (UTC)No worries. Anyone who has worked in hospitals knows to do their paperwork on this matter - anyone who wants to ignore the realities of a very mortal body needs to get that education, in my opinion.
What kills me is that people seem to want to equate letting this woman go with her husband 'winning' something. What does he win, exactly?
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Date: 2005-01-25 11:55 pm (UTC)Mind, this is not what I think... this is just what I've heard in the argument to keep her "connected".
C.
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Date: 2005-01-25 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-25 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-25 09:11 pm (UTC)FWIW
Date: 2005-01-26 05:36 pm (UTC)