Terri Schiavo: Please explain something to me...

[irishgrl]

for some interesting insight into the timeline of the relationships of all parties concerned, as well as the seeds of the motivations involved see:
Fight over $$ as much as principle

for an article on the early years see:
An unstudied life:

and for an article on how the fundies are exploiting this issue:
Deathbed Dollars NOTE: Be VERY AFRAID: the fundies are SO CLOSE to taking over this country and imposing their narrow minded view of society on ALL of us.
can feudalism be far behind?

by the way, Ive seen people vilify Felos' actions/motivations but when Jay Wolfson explains it, Felos doesnt seem so far off the beam:
OLBERMANN: Ultimately, when you were involved in this case, what were your recommendations to Governor Bush and would you give the same recommendations under these circumstances today?

WOLFSON: My recommendations were that additional swallowing tests and neurological tests should be performed for the purpose of resolving the dispute between the parties. Because the legal process and the medical process, I felt, had been competent and had met the standards of proof. But only if the parties agreed in advance as to how the results of those tests could be used.

If you'll look at my final report, we had a draft agreement. And we almost got there. At 11:50 p.m. on the 30th of November, Sunday night, before my report was due on the first, all of us were pretty much agreeing to walk into that room and talk about how we would do that.

Mr. Felos called me at 11:50, Michael's attorney. And he said, "Jay, I can't do it. I can't do it, because I'm challenging the law that appointed you, the constitutionality of it. And if I accept anything that you're proposing, then I am diluting my legal and constitutional challenge. I can't."

He was right in doing that legally. And as you know, the law was deemed unconstitutional and then everything I did was technically moot.
based on that commentary, I cant agree that Felos acted irrationally on this issue. And, as it happened, he was vindicated by the courts. So.