Napa Valley Register | Spurred by Schiavo, Catholics turn to church for legal guidance

re: AP article with a few errors (has incorrect spelling for Terri Schiavo's first name, claims she was in a persistant vegetative state, pushes the edge on a few Catholic teachings by quoting liberal priests...) still manages to get across that Catholics are pushing to have Church doctrine respected when they are seriously ill or dying. Article ends with good observation: "Other Catholics who have signed similar document are less focused on the feeding tube debate. Jeremiah Murphy, 76, an attorney and Catholic lobbyist in Sioux Falls, S.D., drafted his own Catholic durable power of attorney after undergoing emergency heart surgery in 1988./ As he was wheeled around the hospital, Murphy said he realized many generic living wills would allow a surgeon to make life-or-death decisions for him in a crisis. He had always assumed a longtime family doctor or his wife would make any difficult choices./“It’s not. It’s the last specialist who gets his hands on you,” Murphy said. “They don’t know anything about my philosophy or anything else. And this guy’s going to decide whether they turn the key or not?”..."