Federalism and the Terri Schiavo Case

1.From a legal standpoint, do you agree or disagree with the decision to remove the feeding tube?

Who is Terri Schiavo. She was born on Dec 3rd 1963, in Philadelphia, died at Pinellas Park Florida in Mar 31 2005. Her cause of death was Euthanasia. Which an act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness). She entered a vegetative state in 1990 after adopting an "iced tea diet", resulting in a disastrous potassium deficiency that caused irreversible brain damage. In this persistent vegetative state she remained the last fifteen years of her life, neurological tests indicating that her cerebral cortex was principally liquid.( http://www.nndb.com/people/435/000026357/) and the Florida state Law announced Stop the Life-Supporting Invention. Following the Florida State Law, Stop the Life supporting invention’s reasons were first preference of patient are not known and cannot be expressed, second she was below minimal Quality of Life, Third her life was only lasting because of Modern technology, not the life that god given to us. So her life tube was removed and she died 13 days after feeding tube was removed. I think the State Law which Euthanasia was right for her because she was in Vegetative for 15 years and there was no improvement for Terri Schiavo, and that makes her friends and Family so tired, so I think that Florida State Law makes right to Euthanasia her.

2.On insistence from President Bush, Congress met in special session to pass legislation moving the Florida case from the state judicial level to the federal level. In your opinion, was this an appropriate move?

I do not think President Bush getting involved and taking it to a federal level was wrong, because this case was more likely state level issue. And I feel like that President Bush was just being nosy, over reacted and overstepped on this Case. Well I know it was really big hopes for the Terri schiavo’s family, but I think this case could do with the State level.

3. Do you believe the federal government has the authority to decide whether family members have the right to remove a family member from life support?

I think the Federal Government has the right to authority to decide whether family members have the right to keep on or take their family member off life support. Because his/her members of family such as her Parents, and siblings knows what have been through he/ her life. But not husband/wife, because they married because they were in love after they grown up, they might can tell each other their life story but who knows, they might lie each other, and there is possibility that they could break up, and divorced. So I think the Federal Government should have the right to decide .