The difference is in your subject line, *unquestionable*.

The problem with the Schiavo case is that all medical test were not extensively performed and thus leaving an opening for a challenge. This is demonstrated below with the Wolfson interview Bowser provide on the Flame board. If a PET scan and MIR were performed and the result showed negative, then we probably wouldn't have heard much about this case and that's the difference (unquestionable medical evidence) to the baby lung case.

WOLFSON: My recommendations were that additional swallowing tests and neurological tests should be performed for the purpose of resolving the dispute between the parties. 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."

The other difference in the two cases also relates to *unquestionable* in the form of the legal battle. Judge Geer ruled that Terri indeed didn't want to live under her current condition. That was a judgment call on judge Geer leaving again an opportunity for a challenge. Although I would say judge Geer would be the most qualified to make this kind of decision based on individual testimony from his experience of sitting on many cases, judges do make mistakes and judges do differ on the final out come of there decision. So that leaves an opening for a challenge. No matter the final outcome the question is still there, unlike in the baby lung case.

It's really sad that the Schiavo case has gotten so much publicity, especially when you think that if all medical routes were performed the issue probably would have been settled years ago.

"Unquestionable" doubt might be a considerable word included in your living will.