Questions about Terri's life

I've been debating on whether or not to write an entry stating my opinion in regards to Terry Schiavo. I don't really feel I have anything new to contribute, but there are several questions I haven't seen answers to and they've been haunting me for the past couple of days. To me the case is clear cut; Michael Schiavo is an ass trying to murder his wife. Last time I checked marriage vows included the phrase for better or worse and there wasn't an AS LONG AS IT'S CONVENIENT statement anywhere.

I feel pretty safe in saying that a majority of the people I know would do anything, by any means necessary, to improve a family member's quality of life. If there were no hope that she would ever recover and she were in constant pain, I could understand wanting to find a quick and painless way to end the suffering. However this isn't the case and ending someone's life for betterment of your own is a criminal offense, last time I checked it was called murder.

There are a couple of things I don't understand and I'm hoping someone can explain them to me, as I've said before I'm a simpleton:

Why isn't denying her the therapy needed to get rid of her dependency on a feeding tube abuse?

Since he has denied access to therapy, which would allow her to leave the hospital / care facilities why can't he be arrested for false imprisonment?

When the Judge allows Michael Schiavo to order the removal of the feeding tube why won't they be arrested for conspiracy to commit murder?

If and when Michael Schiavo is allowed by the courts to order the removal of her feeding tube, wouldn't it be a conflict of the Hippocratic Oath to allow it much less remove it? And couldn't this result in the care facility loosing their license or at the least opening itself up for a criminal proceedings?

When Michael Schiavo tells the care facility to remove the feeding tube can't he be charged with attempted murder / assisting in euthanasia / spouse abuse or another crime that would make it impossible for him to benefit from her death? This would remove his urge to murder her since there wouldn't be any profit in it wouldn't it?

Blogs for Terri
has updated information.
John from WuzzaDem has a great post regarding the attempted murder of Terri.
You can always blame basil, his original post about Terri Schiavo made me think about how I'd handle the situation and led to my questions.

I'll go back to my corner now and behave.

Posted by phineas g. at 11:26 AM on March 01, 2005
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