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right to live.............Should her husband have the final say or
her family members.

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A judge Wednesday extended a stay - that is effectively keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive - until Friday, saying he needed time to decide whether her husband, who wants to remove her feeding tube, is unfit to be her guardian.

Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer had issued the original emergency stay Tuesday, after an appeals court let expire another stay that had been the last legal obstacle keeping Michael Schiavo from removing the food and water tubes. Judge Greer said he also needs more time to determine whether Terri Schiavo needs more medical tests.
Additionally, the order allows Schiavo's parents to continue for 48 hours to seek legal remedies to overturn the appellate court order which would let Michael remove the tubes, which would starve Terri, 41, to death.

i say husband

I feel very strongly about this case. I firmly believe her husband should have the final say in whether or not the feeding tube is removed. I think to a certain degree, he knows her better than her parents do. This should be a lesson for some of us though, that if you know you wouldn't want to be in a pedicament like this, put something in writing and give copies of it to loved ones and maybe someone else would can be objective about your situation.

I'm not an attorney nor am I a doctor, but I'm a wife and mother who thinks its unfair to her family to have to put them through something like this. Even if I didn't have a document outlining my wishes if something similar were to happen to me, I would expect my husband to act in my best interests and not keep me "alive" in this vegetative state.

Without a doubt the decision should ultimatley be placed in her
husband's hands. This case is being prolonged uneccessarily,
while poor Terry remains on a feeding tube, the only thing
thats keeping her alive. It makes absolutely no sense to me
why a family would want a loved one to function like this.

husband

At this point her husband should be the only one allowed to make any decision regarding Terri... I still don't understand how her family can continue to have any legal say in this matter.

the husband....the family is allowing a serious thing to happen,they are now allowing politicians to have a say in our personal life....thats a decision thats going to haunt us for years....

Editorial: GOV'T HAS NO RIGHT INTERFERING IN THIS TRAGIC CASE

By Linda Staci

March 21, 2005 -- MY MOTHER, Florence Stasi, was forced to linger in a brain-dead state for weeks after she'd actually "died."

We were forced not only to agonize with her but also to feel like murderers when we wanted her removed from life support.

I'm not just a daughter; I am a mother, too — of a grown daughter. I can understand why the people in Terri Schiavo's life are agonizing. Would it be up to me, who gave my daughter life, or up to her husband to make the decision to end her life?

I know I would never want to live trapped inside a brain-dead body, and neither would my daughter, and neither did my mother. But that's exactly what they forced upon her.

I went to my mother's expecting to have a cup of coffee with her. Instead, I found her lying barely conscious from a stroke.

I frantically dialed 911 and attempted CPR until the cops and EMS arrived. She was taken to NYU Hospital and, through force of will, came out of the coma. After five weeks, she'd recovered enough to be moved to rehab.

At the rehab facility, with a large "DNR" (Do Not Resuscitate) sign at the foot of her bed, mom had a heart attack and "died" — the first time.


She was forced back to life by a doctor's extraordinary measures.

Mom had insisted on making out a living will years earlier.

"I have no desire to be fed through a tube and have people standing around crying over me like wilted lettuce," she'd laugh.

Try telling the people who "saved" your mother that they had no right and that you want them to disconnect the tubes.

"You realize you'll be killing her," a stupid young intern told me. "She'll starve and suffer."

Unable to cope, I called my brother, and he had to threaten the facility with a lawsuit for disobeying her wishes and ours.

They reluctantly unhooked her. She was put in a sun-filled corner room, where her sister and nieces — good Italian women who know better than doctors how to let someone die — sat with her and told her things.

About two weeks later, I was sitting with her when the monitors started going wild. I took her hand and told her, "It's OK, Mom. I'm OK, Mom. Nobody's having any fun — and it's time you had some again. I love you."

Somehow, she opened her eyes and looked at me and let me know it was indeed OK. Then she closed them for good.

I know one thing now. The government has no business in our homes or in our lives or in our deaths. Death is a family matter. Congress needs to stay in its own house on this one.

now were are going to give "Big Brother" even more unnecessary control over our lives


does anyone know who is paying the for her medical bills

I was wondering the same thing myself. If her parents are paying the bill then they have every right to have a say how they want to spend their money... chances are they are not... People pull the plug on family members everyday I am still trying to figure out if there was any financial (or any other) incentive for the government to get involved in this case.

What I want to know is does Terry move on her own. Does she have any voluntary reactions. Or does she juss lie in a bed knowing nothing, just being fed. Does she breathe on her own. Ah mean what the real status of Terry?

well she is brain dead no comprhension...i think her only voluntary reactions is opening of the eyes,,but not to sure on any other movements......

On the Today show last Friday, her brother stated that "she knows when the family is in the room, and that she flickers her eyes in acknowledgment". This entire situation is disturbing to me. I feel that the husband should have the final say so. I mean how many people come out of comas and are living healthy regular lives? I want to know why does the family feel that keeping her alive is doing any good. I understand that they are able to see her daily, but have they thought about her not ever being able to do the things she used to do? Why does the government have to get involved? How many people before Terry has this happened to?

I saw an interview today with her husband and his lawyer. He stated that the video clippage that they are showing with her smiling and interacting is only a small part of the footage. There is like 6 hours of footage where she does nothing that we don't see...She breathes on her own and I think that is about it.

I don't know who should decide between the two parties that were given in the first post but I'm leaning toward the husband. When you get married while your family is still your family your decisions are now made by you & your husband as a unit. The woman has been on life support for what 15 years it's time to let go...

As far as Bush signing something saying that she must stay on life support I find that kinda appalling...