People tell themselves this because they want to deny what is really being done to Terri. This Judge has denied the parent's motion to give Terri food and water by mouth! Exactly what "artificial creation of man" is that -- a spoon? If this is not murder then nothing is. This order is not only illegal it is immoral and no American citizen should sleep well with a judge being able to issue such an order and, what is worse, not having it rejected out of hand by elected officials and ordinary, decent people. Somehow I don't think Teddy Roosevelt would have taken such a order lying down.
This precedent is frightening and sickening and I hope that one day the American people will look back to this ordeal and wonder how we could ever have tolerated it, similarly to how we now wonder how our predecessors could have tolerated slavery. I do not think we will be judged kindly.
Nicely put. One thing that I noticed with real bitterness throughout the whole Terri disaster was the willful confusion of a feeding tube with a ventilator-- one is very easy to manage in the home or hospice setting, the latter an invasive and terrifying "heroic" technology.