Hildy, can't we just all get along? Let's just all go and have a nice lunch somewhere, never mind that Terri can't join us due to those who find the sanctity of life rather inconvenient. OOOPS!, be careful you don't get in a car wreck or something and risk being hospitalized....you might be deprived of YOUR lunch next time....
If Michael S. were telling the truth, WHY WOULD HE BE SO DAD-BLASTED PARANOID about medical professionals having access? About TV coverage? WHY WOULD HE REFUSE TO HAVE PET SCANS? Why wouldn't he go ahead and divorce her? Why wouldn't he let her have therapy or food? WHY would M.S. have plans for IMMEDIATE CREMATION? ...
Hildy, with all due respect, you play right into the hands of the abortion-on-demand and euthanasia crowd when you permit--advocate--somebody getting away with this. The people who back such agendas include history's worst totalitarians. Are you on the same side as Mengele? Is Florida Auschwitz? Is America Stalinist Russia and this now the purge? Are you longing for the charm of Mao's Cultural Revolution? Are you in front of--or atop--the tanks in Tiananmen Square?
I find Proverbs 31:8-9 a guideline for what must be done. Doug has done that here. Some here at FR reject the Bible, that's their prerogative. Others here have other convictions.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/index.php?search=proverbs%2031:8-9&version=9
"He who hath ears, let him hear."
"16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."
See, your post is exactly the problem. You don't believe in the ideology behind it, and that's fine. But in this Country, what MS is doing is legal and God knows he's gone through every proper channel and then some. Because you find it morally reprehensible, doesn't mean you have a right to go in their and subvert the law. You know I find it morally reprensible to keep her alive in that condition. Call me any name you want, but that's what I believe. Why is what you believe more important than what I believe and more importantly, the law?