Reply #14: Well, with the Terry Schiavo case...

[VeggieTart]

...it was the husband fighting her biological family over who got to decide the course of her care. He wanted her to be able to die with dignity because he believed her condition was irreversible, and they wanted to keep her alive for decades. For the record, the autopsy showed her brain had atrophied to half the normal size and that she was blind.

Now, I was thinking--what if two men or two women marry, there's a situation like this, and one partner wants his/her spouse to be able to die with dignity, and the family fights them on it a la the Schindlers (Ms. Schiavo's family)? There were a lot of conservative hatechristians coming to the Schindler family's aid, and I have to wonder if they were using this to knock down one of the arguments gays and lesbians use to justify their demands for marriage rights.

But then I am a cynical bitch sometimes.