What Is Wrong With This World?!?

I was talking on the phone with my sister yesterday when she told me something very disturbing. Due to the fact that I don't watch the news because it depresses me, I was unaware of what was happening in the USA. Apparently (from what I was told), a lady in the US had gotten into an accident about 10 years ago and was basicaly a vegetable, except that she showed some form of acknowledgement when her family came to visit her through facial expressions (so I guess she wasn't in a complete vegetative state). Anyways this lady was married and had children but has been in this state for approximately 10 years. I guess her husband got tired of having her around and so he asked to have her life terminated. Now he had moved on with his life, he had a new relationship with another woman and even had children with her. Of course he wanted his injured wife out of the picture! The womens family was fighting to keep her alive. She showed signs of mental activity by facial expressions and she wasn't on any resperatory system, the only thing she was on was a feeding tube, THAT IS ALL! Her family faught her husband all the way to Supreme Court where his wishes were granted. The great Supreme Court ordered for her feeding tube to be removed and she was sentenced to death through starvation. As if she hadn't suffered enough for the last ten years now she was left to starve to death. What I don't understand is how the court could grant her husband rights over the poor woman when he had started a new life after her accident. He wasn't fighting for her well being, he was fighting for his own, and the Supreme Court didn't see that. She layed in her bed starving for 14 days!! Can you imagine? What did she ever do wrong to deserve such a death. Murderers get better treatment. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? What bugs me even more is that in this is modern day we should know better and be more civilized than to be so inhumane. I guess we haven't come that far from our barbaric ways.

P.S. One piece of advice: If you have a choice to give power of attorney to someone in case of emergencies (such as above), I beseech you to give the power to someone of your bloodline. No one will love you or want the outmost best for you other than your intimate family. As seen above a husband or even a friend can move on with their lives but your family (the blood that runs through your veins) will love you forever.