Of course almost everyone has heard about the battle between terri shivo's family and her husband, but heres the untold story.
1. Terri Shivo's husband stands to gain money out of her death...but not life insurance as many think, but rather Terri's left over money from and HMO Malpractice suit. The purpose of the suit was to give Terrri enough money to live for 50 years after her incident. However, if the husband can have her killed, he can gain the remainder of the money, which is not his at all.
2. The judgement of the removal of the tube was based on heresay evidence. At no point during the suit did the husband mention that Terri apparently would not want to live that way... somethign that would have been vital during the suit. However, soem years later after they had won the sum of money for Shivo, he conveniantly recalled a time when she "would not want to live this way, she told me one day". This wasn't told to the family or to friends, just him...but remarkably he was only able to recall this on television.
3. Shivo's will states that she wants to live, yet she apparently told her husband she would not have in such a manner. The only time when her verbal will would take precidence is if the whole family agrees apon doing it as such, however,they did not, so legally, the tube should remain.
4. The family of the Shivo's have every right to try and keep her alive. Some may say she is just a corpse but the families religion and beliefs tell them otherwise. Consider this, if your son or daughter was in a state, would you pull the tube? How about if your beliefs/ gut instincts tell you she is still a person and not just a mindless corpse that just reacts? Also the government views her as more than a corpse considering it is the animation of her brain waves that makes her such.
5. I trust the family, not because they are religious or because they are the parents of her, but rather because they have nothing to gain out of the situation but that fact that they want what is best for their daughter. People say she feels no pain, then why is it that she must die? Because shes a burden to society? And the fact is she does feel some pains, and we plan on solving that by making her suffer through starvation? Her husband also has many other qualities and choices abotu him that makes him all the more suspicious, however, that is not important right now, because these are the main two, as well as the fact that he has another woman and will not divorce his wife because of the issue of money.
The main counter to the arguement about the husbands intrests is that his wife is dead to him and he is just collecting what is rightfully his. Whether his wife is truely dead, the money is not his at all, its shivos,and it was awarded to her for HER well being, not his. It was NOT an insurance policy.
Another thing was that he was offered 1 milllion by a lawyer to no long be the guardian of shivo. However, in accepting the money, it would have proved what he was after, besides, why would he have accepted the money, what he would have gotten from the death of shivo would be tax free.
Look over these things, and think well about who your political leaders support | 
