I had kind of assumed he couldn't, because she can't respond or work with an attorney, and did not choose to abandon him.
This was an x-post, but see the answer below.
It always weirds me out to see the pictures of her. A family close to mine had a situation where Mary Lou, the mother, had an aneurism and ended up in basically an infantile state of awareness/comprehension. Her face and expressions were a lot like Terri's when they want to show her smiling at someone.
Her situation was very different though - Mary Lou definitely had actual awareness - she recognized people, and would smile and laugh when you approached, and eventually learned a handful of words. As it happened in their case, her husband ended up divorcing her so that she could get better medical care without him and the children losing their house. He remained her guardian, though, and even after he remarried a few years later, they always visited and brought Mary Lou home from the nursing home for holidays, birthdays, etc, and she ended up living a good ten or twelve years in that state. A wrenching, horrible situation, but a better outcome than anything that this case will bring.
I'll um, keep that in mind, gallant Hecubus.
It makes me sad to feel so apart from my brothers and sisters on this issue, but I still can't see it as black and white as they do, even so. "Why are the liberals trying to kill us?" and such.
Because their argument is, in re 'Right-to-die" people like me aren't free to decide, anyway.
I think the husband and parents have not had much love lost
The marriage wasn't perfect. Terry had emotional issues and an eating disorder. I believe she may have been talking about ending the marriage (according to the family). This wouldn't negate any desire not to be kept alive artificially, of course, but I think her parents have lost all objectivity.
The money is the result of a malpractice settlement, not life insurance.
The money is the result of a malpractice settlement, not life insurance.
Oh. Sorry for the mis-info.
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Thanks for the link, Betsy -- that article laid it out really well.
A wrenching, horrible situation, but a better outcome than anything that this case will bring.
Sounds like it. How sad.
From the MSNBC article tommyrot linked to...
David Gibbs, the attorney for her parents, said.... [snip] “The family is prayerfully excited about their daughter going before the United States Congress for the whole world to see how alive she is," he added.
So many things about this comment repulse me. Whether or not she is "alive" isn't the issue. She's plainly alive. Moss is alive, but that doesn't make it a life a person would want to live.
But more importantly, the crass politicization of any and all religious language ("prayerfully excited...") that has seeped into, it seems, every aspect of our lives, fills me with utter revulsion.
