My grandmother has been in the same condition as your grandmother for almost 11 years. Are you saying we should kill people like her? I would rather be dead then carry on like that, but my grandmother never told us what she wanted. I don’t think that we should be deciding who lives and who dies.
As I said before (people seem to have a real problem reading and listening where this subject is concerned), there is a huge amount of difference between allowing a person to die and killing them. The refusal to acknowledge this difference has stalled the debate on this question. An abortion is a killing. A miscarriage is not. A knife in the heart is a killing. A person who cannot drink, eat, or function on their own expiring is not. The fact that these lines are difficult to acknowledge does not negate the fact that they are very clear in most cases. Terri was going to stare at the ceiling for twenty-five to thirt more years. She may have been in great pain, perhaps not. She was allowed to pass on. To expire. To die. But she was not murdered. Mike did the right thing, even if he had every incentive to do it (insurance money, move on with his life, new family).