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"Tom Barrister" <tombarrister@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> And please don't feed us the "She didn't want to live like this,"
> baloney.  For one, I seriously doubt that she ever said that to you or
> to anybody else.

The court trial accepted that as fact.  She made the comments around the time 
of funerals of close family members which had been on life support.


> Certainly no later than 1992.  Why did it take you seven years to
> remember that?

What's your basis for saying that it took seven years to "remember" that?

Like any good husband, he held out hope that she could recover... at first. 
He's come to accept the reality that her condition won't get better, and that 
her wish was to not live like this.


> I'll tell you why. Because she never said it, Mark.  It's your cop out.


> But it wasn't that simple, was it?  Many others were opposed to it,
> most notably her parents.  So why didn't you turn Terri's custody over
> to them and be done with it?   Then you could do as you please with the
> other woman.  Would your conscience bother you then?

We know why... because he had a dedication to follow through and see Terri's 
wishes fulfilled.


> Let's assume that you're doing this because you simply can't stand to
> see her in this state anymore and that there isn't any ulterior motive
> involved with the other woman (or women).  Don't you understand that
> there are still people who love your wife and want to see her continue
> to live?  Why can't you turn her over to them?  They'd take care of
> her.  Assign guardianship to them.

Because that is not what Terri wants.


> If none of the above makes any sense to you, remember your marriage
> vows that stated:
> "....to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,
> for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to
> cherish, till death do us part"

So why did you previously write:
   > So why didn't you turn Terri's custody over
   > to them and be done with it?

Remember his marriage vow my ass... remember what you wrote just a few 
paragraphs ago.