I have spent an eternity saying this.

[conuly]

Terri Schiavo is not on life support. She does not use a ventilator. I don't know where that story started, but here it ends. She is not hooked up to any machines. She uses a feeding tube. That is not life support. Taking her off the feeding tube will cause her to - slowly - starve or dehydrate.

There is evidence that she reacts to things around her. There is also evidence that her condition would be drastically improved if the money from the settlement had gone towards her treatment instead of her husband's court bills.

So please, base your opinions off of accurate information.

And now, I will let other people talk about being in situations where they were believed dead, and post those links (links I've posted before) about other people who nearly died because "after all, she's not going to recover, might as well pull the plug now" - and at the time, they were conscious.

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[l33tminion]

If he was really a scumbag, he wouldn't care.

[conuly]

He might care about public opinion, but not his wife.

[l33tminion]

If he didn't care about his wife, he would have turned over right of attorney to her parents and gotten a divorce. Then he wouldn't be involved in the whole mess.

[conuly]

But then he wouldn't inherit.

[l33tminion]

I'm sorry, your position just doesn't make sense. If he's doing this for money or convenience, he could have taken the money and walked away. More money and less trouble.

[conuly]

It does make sense.

Right now, he can say "I want the best thing for my wife", and people like you believe him. Even people who disagree with him say "well, maybe he really means it". So he looks like a suffering saint. And if this should happen to cause him to get several hundred thousand dollars in inheritance, so much the better for him, right?

But if he takes the money and walks away, now he has a bit more money, sure, and he doesn't have to wait for his wife to kick the bucket - but now the entire world thinks he's an asshole, including the people who agreed with him before.

So he could want the money, but not enough to have the entire world hate him.

[l33tminion]

What evidence do you have that he is lying? You're so quick to demonize the guy, and you've never even met him!

[conuly]

I didn't say he was lying. I said that he had a potential ulterior motive - several of them, really - and when you asked me to enumerate these motives, I did. Repeatedly.