Calif Bill wrote:
Michael Shiavo probably beat her and caused the damage.

Boy, that's really a wild accusation. The hey, the right wing is getting
it's rocks off these days calling everybody names, so why not?

It would be just as fair to say that her parents screwed up her
childhood and that's why she was anorexic. They are certainly acting
like whackos now, insisting that she's going to get better when she
physically does not have a brain.

It appears to me that the fight is as much about the malpractice award
as about Terry Schiavo's life or lack thereof.

... ... But she is a
vegetable. After 15 years, she is not going to improve. Brain scans, etc,
show she has little brain function left. Give her peace. Modern technology
can keep a body clinically alive long after it would and should be dead.
Breathing machine, pace maker, etc. Is this living?


Agreed.

One of the issues this case raises is the validity of living wills.
These documents are often ignored. I hope that the courts will recognize
that when a person is dead, they're dead. When a person signs a legal
document attesting that they do not want life support, they should not
be kept alive as a vegetable.

Regards
Doug King