After this law passes, Floridians will have to have a feeding tube surgically inserted into your stomach if your dying or become incapacitated unless you expressed it in writing that you wouldn't want one, no exceptions. You will no longer be able to make the decision through your loved ones or previous "oral" statements. And whether it's withdrawn or not will be up to politicians (or popular vote, I guess) not the judicial system.
It will be retroactive also, so everyone who is dying now, who doesn't have a living will, will have to have the PEG-tube put in place, all the alzheimer's patients etc...there are a lot of those in Florida. This is completely retarded.
TALLAHASSEE -- The Legislature's first attempt to keep Terri's Schiavo's feeding tube connected was a law tailored to her case, but the Florida Supreme Court struck it down unanimously.
Now, lawmakers are pushing a broader proposal that could affect thousands of Floridians lying incapacitated in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes.
The new bill would require food and water be given to terminally ill people unless they specified in a living will that they did not want to be kept alive that way. A verbal declaration to relatives or loved ones would not necessarily be recognized.
And the bill says that the Legislature, not a judge, has the final say in an end-of-life case. It also would apply retroactively, to cover the Schiavo case.
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