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   From: kathy@scconsult.com   
      
   On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:11:11 -0700, Michelle J. Haines   
    wrote:   
      
   > Because it's always better to starve someone to death on no more   
   > than the say-so of someone who will gain financially and   
   > relationally by their death (gets to marry his new girlfriend).   
   >   
   > Always a good reason to have a living will in place.  Terry   
   > Schiavo's parents  are obviously being optimistic, but I also   
   > wouldn't want my husband to be able to kill me because he found   
   > me inconvenient.   
      
   I think you're substantially exaggerating Terry's husband's sins in   
   that case, and substantially underestimating the irrationality of   
   the hope held by her parents, painful as this situation is for them.   
      
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