Schiavo relative set to speak at Capitol

[AnnInLa]

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/050805/pol_politics001.shtml

Schiavo relative set to speak at Capitol

The brother of Terri Schiavo will be at the State Capitol this week to testify on proposed changes to Louisiana's "living will" law, a state senator said.

Sen. James David Cain, R-Dry Creek, is proposing a law to require that patients can't be denied food and water unless they previously requested "to be starved to death," Cain said.

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Her brother, Bobby Schindler, will testify on Cain's bill Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary "A" Committee meeting set for 9 a.m. in the Senate's big briefing room, Cain said.

The Schindler family opposed turning off the feeding tube, but Terri Schiavo's husband won a legal battle to do so.

"We have to determine that people actually want to be starved to death before we pull the plug," Cain said in a statement explaining the reason for his bill.

[Selteri]

1. And here is another reason why we need to stop these people.

Who will bear the burden of the cost of these people being kept alive on feeding tubes regardless of the case involved.

Blanket laws protect those who can't protect themselves and those who don't need it just as badly. I can already see these blanket laws being used to force others to remain alive though their whole family wishes to pull the plug as the hospitals drain bank accounts and force people into debtors prisons under these new laws.

[Jacobin]

2. Good grief

I'll bet the doctors are going nuts over this stuff.