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   From: guavaln@yahoo.com   
      
   "Michelle J. Haines"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1a25c9e9f621c4af98a2d3@news.Qwest.net...   
   > For a man who has money in a trust for her rehabilitation that she   
   > never received, who just had a baby with a new girlfriend, and   
   > suddenly it's time to end it all, even though she's been in this   
   > state for ten years?   
   >   
   > He's been neglecting his wife, at best.   
   >   
   He started proceedings to have the feeding tube removed at least six years   
   ago, perhaps longer. It's not as if he suddenly decided on this course of   
   action after 12 years; to the contrary, he has been trying for quite a long   
   time to carry out her wishes.   
      
   > Her parents are probably way overstating her ability to recover and   
   > her recognition of her mother, but he's just as far over the edge the   
   > other direction, IMO.   
   >   
   In general, the medical community seems to agree more with his assessment of   
   her state of being than with her parents'. The only members of the medical   
   community who claim otherwise are those offering various therapies for   
   "curing" her, none of which have ever been shown to be effective and for the   
   provision of which they will undoubtedly at no small financial benefit. IOW,   
   the doctors supporting the parents' claims are not exactly disinterested   
   third parties.   
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