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but here it is again.

One reason why so many of the doctors we're hearing quoted in this case are coming out against her is that they were hired by her husband, who has a vested interest in her death. The primary doctor the husband hired is a strong right to death advocate, so he has his own agenda.

I listened to an interview of an attorney for Jeb Bush who said that for the first 7 years after her heart attack, her husband did provide her with care. He testified in her malpractice lawsuit that she could live a normal lifespan and needed millions of dollars for medical are. After winning over a million dollars in the suit, he suddenly recalled that she wouldn't want to live like that. He also started shacking up with another woman. More than one of the hospice workers who treated Terry claim in sworn testimony that the husband was eager for her to die so he could keep the money. In short, this case stinks to high heaven. Terry is being sentenced to death for the high crime of being a burden. The only evidence we have that Terry wanted to die comes from the man who stands to benefit from her death. That's hardly convincing, at least to me.

If nothing else, this case should motivate a lot of people to get their affairs in order when it comes to a living will and an enduring power of attorney. My wife and I are working on ours, and we're going to add videotaped statements expressing our wishes in no uncertain terms. Our families will know our intentions and there won't be any ambiguity.

While I personally wouldn't want to live like that, we have to be careful not to project our own individual wishes onto someone else. That path leads to eugenics as was practiced by the Nazis in the 1930s and is being practiced in the Netherlands today. Even as an agnostic, I don't want to see that happen here. It isn't a religious issue to me, it's a matter of humanity and human dignity.

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