To your question:
From an ethical standpoint all the evidence, and the findings of inumerable hearings and court decisions, rehabilitive therapy will not restore Terri's cognitive functions. Attempts at rehabilitive threrapy have indeed been attempted with no change in Terri's condition and further, the Schindler's have failed to provide the necessary evidence that additional therapy will be of any benefit whatsoever. To allow this situation to continue reduces what is left of Terri Schiavo to a legal sideshow. A freak of nature with no right to privacy and a tool of every opportunistic radical group that comes along.
You've revealed yourself by calling Terri a "freak of nature."
You also carefully dodge one of the reasons there is so much doubt here. You state:
"Attempts at rehabilitive threrapy have indeed been attempted with no change in Terri's condition"
A more accurate version of this sentence would run:
"Schiavo's purported attempts at rehabilitive therapy were attempted over ten years ago, and, Schiavo purports, with no change in Terri's condition."
Since Schiavo has permitted no therapy in over ten years, it is not known if newer or different kinds of therapy might have had a beneficial effect on Terri.
This assertion of yours is also disingenuous, also:
"the Schindler's have failed to provide the necessary evidence that additional therapy will be of any benefit whatsoever...
It should more accurately read:
"The Schindlers have been denied access to Terri's medical records, and denied the opportunity to test Terri, so they have been unable to provide the necessary evidence that additional therapy will be of any benefit whatsoever..."
As for the article I posted at reply 258: Yes, it does speak for itself. And what it says doesn't speak well for you, or for anyone else who wishes death rather than therapy upon Terri.
For all of your big talk, you refuse to acknowledge that Terri is STILL ALIVE! Even moreso, her life is not maintained by medical technology typically considered "extraordinary measures". A simple tube stuck into the stomach for receiving food and water. The only difference between your sustenance and Terri's is that you can put your own food and water in your tube (your esophagus) via your mouth, and Terri's has to go in through her "fake" esophagus. Of course, we don't even know if this feeding tube is even necessary for her!
I am an occupational therapist by profession, with 18 years of experience. In the early years of my career, I specialized in rehabilitation of teens and adults with TBI (traumatic brain injury). I have seen many, many challenging patients who required far more medical intervention than Terri to maintain their lives. I have also witnessed some miraculous recoveries as well, even YEARS after the initial TBI incident. I could tell you about other patients like the girl in the article that seemed to animate you so - I have witnessed this myself.
Again, the key to this matter is that Terri is STILL ALIVE. If you want to make some god-judgment about the relative "quality" of her life as to whether she should live or die, then you have already been rightly identified as a Nazi by another poster. May God have mercy on your soul. Good day.