I cannot resist this one but it will be the last. This is from a lawyer cousin of a friend of mine:
I don't understand this one bit. If the judge said, it was okay to kill this poor angel (which it is not), then take a gun and plug her a few times and that would be (wrongly) that. But starve her to death?? That's perfectly natural and appropriate only if your care is being provided courtesy of the SS or Pol Pot.
If this lady was a convicted serial killer, condemned to die, the Eighth Amendment would prohibit death by starvation. They'd have to give her the chair, or lethal injection, or a firing squad--i.e., something a bit more humane.
If this woman were a prisoner of war and the judge and her husband were her "captors," under the Nuremberg Principles, they'd be looking at twenty years in Spandau.
There is no logic to this idea of death by "natural means." Maybe they should just throw the woman off the top of the Empire State Building and say that gravity killed her. Or fill her hospital room with water and say that the floods swept her away. Stuff her in a bag full of snakes. Nothing artificial about venom--it's even organic.
If her husband and the judge really thinks this is what she wants and what is humane, I suggest that the judge stay his order for six months. The judge and hubby could then be handcuffed to a bed and starved. Like Dr. Mengele used to say, nothing sensational, no twins or anything exciting, just no food or water for the rest of their lives. Don't even talk to these guys for a reasonable amount of time--say five weeks, then ask them how things are going. After all, they can speak-- this poor woman cannot. Stick these guys on CNN every nite. Have Larry King ask Hubby how things are going since his body temperature passed 104 and his weight dropped to 71. Ask the Judge if its a liberating or humbling experience for an authority figure like His Honor to scream until his gums bleed for just a drop of water have people smile politely and walk by.
Screw the legal process. President Bush should send a phalanx of US Marshals to the hospital with and a couple of army nurses to take care of this gal.
Talk about a rotten son-in-law.
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Marta --