re: #713 TradeBait

Yeah, I remember the Schiavo case. That was a disaster. Wasn’t there a lot of friction between her parents and her husband? I seem to recall there was some question of ulterior motives on her husband’s part about allowing her to die. And also that her parents were contending that she was lucid enough to respond to them sometimes.

There was friction between the parents and the husband, but the decision was legally the husband’s to make. Some people claimed that he wanted to take her off the feeding tubes to gain control of trust fund money, but the same charge could be labeled against her parents, who controlled those funds as long as she remained on the machinery. Several neurological specialists examined her, and there was no doubt whatsoever that she was irretrieveably brain dead.

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