Be Sure to get the "Anti-Living Will!"

The past few days I've been hearing on news reports, various editorials and just on Bill O'Reilly, that if you want to avoid the nightmare that is the Terri Schiavo brouhaha, be sure to have a living will. That premise assumes Terri wants to starve to death and is being impeded by those fighting on her behalf. She didn't have a living will and her estranged husband and Judge Greer are treating her like she does. Either way she's going to die (unless someone intervenes) just as if she had a living will. So what if you don't want to die in such a situation, you don't have a living will, and your creepy estranged spouse insists otherwise...such as Terri?

Let's assume that when Terri was younger and healthier and all was hunkydory, she saw some pathetic soul unable to care for herself and she said in passing, "I never want to live like that." Most folks can identify with that scenario, but if her husband heard that and she didn't do a living will to make it legal, then how can she be held responsible for a passing comment she may or may not have made? Shouldn't a legal document or lack of one be the deciding factor in such a case? Apparently not!

Which leads me to believe there should be a new legal document called "the anti-living will." Maybe it could bear the Terri Schiavo brand name so it will be immediately understood. The Terri Schiavo Anti-Living Will would insure that no one could allow you to be starved to death against your will. It would be important to record it at the courthouse and mail certified copies to friends and relatives who you can count on to fight for your life, in the event your spouse wants you dead.