Text 11611, 61 rader
Skriven 2005-04-16 07:51:37 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
  Kommentar till text 11598 av Max Kohn (1:18/200)
Ärende: Re: Bo Gritz
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16 Apr 05 00:47, Max Kohn wrote to John Hull:

 MK> *** Quoting John Hull from a message to Ed Connell ***

 JH>> > What you are saying is essence is that what you say is 
 JH>> > meaningless unless it is put into writing and notarized to make 
 JH>> > it legally binding. I don't think that's what you meant to say.

 EC>> Pretty much that is what I meant to say.  Before someone kills me, 
 EC>> I'd hope they have more than three or four persons who testify 
 EC>> that killing me is my preference.

 JH>> Her preference was that she not live in a permanent helpless 
 JH>> state, NOT that she be murdered.  Regardless of HOW she died, she 
 JH>> was NOT murdered under the law.

 MK> She WAS murdered under the law.  It was a form of legal murder.  She was 
 MK> not being kept alive by a machine.  All she needed was food and water and 
 MK> they could have kept her alive indefinitely.  Unfortunately all her 

First, I'd like to know what makes you so much of an expert on this?  What
makes your opinion any  more valid than anybody else's in this echo?

Then, perhaps you could get your facts straight.  She was being artificially
fed - through a tube that was attached to a permanent fixture in her throat,
because she couldn't swallow.  Maybe her body could've been kept alive, but it
was an empty shell.  The part of the brain that makes a person who they are,
their intelligence, their personality - their soul - was dead and atrophied. 
It was like keeping a side of beef alive for all the good it did.

So, she was not murdered by any stretch of the imagination.  You can't murder
somebody who isn't even there anymore.


 MK> husband gave a damn about was getting rid of his wife so he could play 
 MK> with his new fiance. All the government wanted was to sweep this under the

 MK> rug as quickly as possible.  Nobody gave a damn what the parents wanted.

You have no way of knowing this either.  I've read accounts from several
sources that say Michael spent several years at the beginning trying to do
whatever was possible to bring her out of the coma, with no success.  And,
despite, years of failure in the courts, her parents just couldn't let go when
they had no legal legs to stand on, and hadn't since she married Michael.  The
courts followed state law whether you like it or not.  You can agree or
disagree all you want to, but that is the bottom line.

With regard to the parents wishes, a lot of people got involved who should have
just stayed out of it, including a number of politicians.  Personally, I think
the parents were extremely selfish in their actions over the course of ten
years or more, but that's just my opinion.  Opinions are like assholes -
everybody has one - so get off your high horse because your's is no better than
mine or anybody else's.

John 

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