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Originally posted by Incinerator@Mar 22 2005, 12:13 AM
I'm with the parents on this one, not so much whether the woman is brain dead or not, what irks me the most is that it appears the husband only wants her to die because he is the legal guardian and apparently he stands to inherit a handsome sum of $$ when she dies. And it also bothered me that he's moved on with his life with another woman before his wife is property laid to rest in peace. I don't know this guy but going by my own moral standards I have no reservations about calling him a scumbag.
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You do know, don't you, that the life insurance policy on her life would have been put in place PRIOR to her unfortunate circumstances arising, with zero likelihood the husband foreseeing the circumstances this couple finds themselves in today.
Still, there are often good reasons, particularly for young couples, to have insurance in place for circumstances where one of the partners might die young, the creation of an estate to help the survivor overcome the loss economically. Its a primary selling point in the insurance industry. You don't expect to use it but you have it case . . . .
Secondly, as others have noted, he's been offered far more money to save her than he has coming to him as a result of an insurance policy.
It may well be just the principle of the thing, an apple being only an apple.
Third, perhaps many of you here don't have wills in place given your ages but its common in the process of building such a document that you would likely state, when you're of sound mind, what is to be done in circumstances such as Schiavo's, whether the plug is to be pulled on your life or not.
As you can see from this situation, if you don't have a will where your wishes for this kind of circumstance aren't spelled out . . . . . maybe it's time you did it so there's no ambiguity.
Don't leave things behind for people to fight over . . . . because they will.
My two cents.
Cowperson