Tim while your views are your own and may be justified in your eyes this is a matter that should be between the husband and wife. Not the parents, Bush, court system, the guy at the local 7-11. After 15 years in the state she has been in the possibility of her recovering is long gone, many doctors have agreed that she is brain dead. Now yes there may be many degrees of Bran dead but the fact remains that all concious motor and communication abilites are gone. More than likely her spirit has gone on and there is nothing left but a shell of what once was a daughter. The parents are being selfish for trying to hold onto her when clearly if they are the Christians they claim to be they know she is going to a better place.

Now I agree that if there was a chance that she could be saved and she showed signs that she is progressing I have no problem having some of my tax dollars go to help her. The problem is she has not made any progress and the only thing we are paying for is her to be in a hospice room with a feeding tube and a nurse to come by and check on her. That is not a life I would want anyone to live or be subjected to. Like Jaime said in the other post, ok so they put the feeding tube back in and it stays, she lives off the tube for another 15 years and her body starts failing. What then, hook her up to more machines to keep the body alive? When does it stop? Who are we to intervene in life and play god? You speak with a strong belief and that is good, it means that you are thinking and processing information and are able to make your own decesions, but for Schivo that ended 15 years ago. Are you prepared to say that you are god and this woman should not die? I am not condeming you for your beliefs or actions but merely asking you to tell everyone what right man has to play god, and that is exactly what we are doing in this case.