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I support the governors decision. Look at the dispute.
First up she's not in a coma as the title of this thread implies, unless you call a coma being awake and able to see and recognise faces.
I saw footage of her being carted around outside yesterday, and that's no coma Chewbacca.
Secondly, her husband wants her dead, her parents want her alive.
Simple. Grant him a divorce and take back the million dollars he got for her rehabillitation and give it to her parents. She is OF VALUE to the people who brought her into the world and cared for her as she grew. Why take her away from them.
Thirldy she is being fed. That is all. No life support, no respirator. Food. What of quadraplegics who cannot feed themselves? Are they all to die too? In hunter gatherer society, a blind person could not hunt ant thus feed themselves. Would they have been killed?
Fourthly, she has severe brain damage. She's in no pain, and probably doesn't understand what is going on. This is no reason to terminate her life though. If she has as little understanding as is suggested, she'd be happy. Ignorance is bliss.
Fifth, she may have once mentioned to her husband that she would have wanted to die, but then she mentioned to her parents that she wanted a divorce.
So who is right? Should she be granted both a divorce and death? Why is he still married to her if he's so intent on respecting casual words she says to people.
I smell money and protectionism on his part. If there was foul play and he did strangle her, as some have inferred, he certainly wouldn't want her recovering to convoict him and take his million dolloars now would he?
If in doubt, the person should live. You can't reverse a decision to kill someone.
There is a suprising amount of joy and love brain damaged people can experience.
[ 10-23-2003, 12:35 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]
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