Word: husbandly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Polls show that most Americans believe that her death is a private matter and that her removal from a feeding tube—a low-tech, simple and inexpensive device used to feed many sick and disabled people—is a reasonable solution to the conflict between her husband and her parents over her right to life...
...February 1990, Terri Schiavo collapsed from an apparent heart attack that resulted in severe brain damage, leaving her in a state of incapacity. For the subsequent fifteen years, Schiavo’s husband and sole legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, has been fighting to obstruct her road to recovery. In 1993, when doctors believed that Terri Schiavo’s condition was improving, Michael Schiavo began to impede her treatment, going as far as inserting a “Do Not Resuscitate” order in her medical files and ordering medical staff to deny her antibiotics for a developing...
...starvation and dehydration, which is an extremely excruciating practice usually considered to be unethical. Florida statute 744.3215 (1) (i) states, “A person who has been determined to be incapacitated retains the right to receive necessary services and rehabilitation.” The courts have allowed her husband to take away that right without a living will...
...Middlesex Grand Jury indicted the husband of a 28-year-old Harvard Extension School student on Tuesday, charging him with the murder of his wife and sending the case to trial in the local superior court...
...libertarian, I think it is especially heinous given that [Schiavo’s husband] is imposing his will and his life choices on her,” Hecker said.—Material from the Associated Press was used in this report...