Of course everyone brings their personal experiences with them to this issue--but that is true of everything, isn't it?

There are legal issues though, that I for one think are very important in this case. Two matter a great deal to me:

1) the State's intervention in a medical decision they had no business sticking their nose into, and;

2) the right of the spouse, not the parents, to make the decision to remove the feeding tube.

The Florida Supreme Court only decided on the first one, as I understand their ruling.

The second issue, the one of legal standing, is still in the lower Florida courts, I believe.

I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a legal process in place for arbitration when there is this sort of a disconnect within a family. But it is just plain sick that the parents took it to this level, IMO. Really sick. And utterly selfish.

We had a similar case which received national attention some years ago, the Karen Ann Quinlan case.