The probate judge who ordered the dehydration death of brain-injured Terri Schiavo will join Michael Schiavo and other key proponents of her death as a guest speaker at a bioethics conference.

Florida Circuit Court Judge George Greer on Monday will address attendees of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics 10th anniversary symposium, entitled "The legacy of the Terri Schiavo case: Why is it so hard to die in America?"

Greer intends to speak to the need for courts, not legislators, to decide the fate of incapacitated individuals like the 41-year-old Florida woman whose husband obtained Greer's authority to remove her feeding tube and cause her death, over the objections of Terri's parents and siblings.

His remarks will serve as a long-awaited public response to the unprecedented intervention by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the Florida Legislature, Congress and President Bush to forestall his court order pending further investigation into the case.

"There are reasons courts make decisions when there are disputes," Greer told the St. Petersburg Times last month. "That's what courts are for."

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