It seems like he wanted her out of the way. Why would he disrespect her parents' wishes? A parent's love is unconditional.
**** the parents! He was Terri's husband. Don't you believe in marriage?
Exactly.
When she turned 18 the parents stopped having any say in her life.
When she got married her parents stopping having any rights to custody.
Terri's husband would have had to die first, then her parents would have been the next of kin to take custody of her.
But hey, right wing extremists don't believe they have to follow our laws.
No matter how much factual evidence you present to these people you will never get them to see the truth.
They just prefer to call people murders, abusers and bash anyone who is not a far right wing extremist.
Too bad the husband wasn't more sympathetic to the parents' position. Anyone who is a parent would understand and feel for those parents. I think he is a rotten excuse for a human being.
I am a parent and I understand what they went through.
I've had to watch as my grandmother was only given air as she laid dying. We had no say in anything because she had a living will. So we had to let her suffer until she died. I will have to do the same with my mom in a few years. Her living will says only air. And even if she didn't have one, all of us in my family would still only give her air and not hook her up to any machines or do anything to prevent her from being laid to rest. We would do that because like Michael, we've been told by her that is what she would want.
My husband faced something like this with me in 2009. I was in a coma, I had a living will but it was 3000 miles away in our safe in our home. So he had to make all the decisions for me while I was in that coma. And yes, the doctors asked him for that living will. They didn't think I was going to wake up.
If I had not woken up, he would have pulled all the plugs to all the machines I was hooked up to and it would have been the exact thing I would have wanted him to do.
The problem was that the parents couldn't let go. Terri was dead. The fact that her brain had liquified proves that. The brain doesn't revert to that state in a living person.
The only reason she still had a beating heart was because of modern technology. If the technology wasn't available at the time, Terri Schaivo would have been pronounced dead when she was first taken to the hospital and then property laid to rest after.
No parent wants their child to die before them. Everyone understands that. However there's a time to let go. The parents couldn't let go. They put their son in law and our nation through hell because they couldn't let go.