Ping!
I don't know if you've seen this one.
1. Terri is responsive
2. Terri is conscious
3. Terri is disabled, even more so now than in the past.
Her parents are willing to care for her and
overcome the abuse of sensory deprivation, inability
to be taken outside, limited visitation, disposal of
any cards and gifts. (I think all of us would be
disabled under those circumstances.
4. No therapy, voice or physical.
5. No medical treatment for colds or infections.
A cancer patient wishing assisted suicide is in a position to request it in some states, they are also in a position to request a DNR.
Terri is not in this position, she did not write anything down and 3 different stories later Michael is the only one who ever heard it, and "heard" it is not enough!
Many of Florida's retirees and vets have become wards of the retirement centers and nursing home, exchanging their assets for lifelong care. By allowing the precedent that will be set in Terri's case, all of these folk could be vulnerable for a death by starvation/dehydration. They would no longer have a choice, it could simply be requested by whomever, after some unscrupulous medical person stated that they were in a vegetative state. The only reason Michael has had to parade this group of charletons is because his action was contested. Retirees and vets whose families live out-of-state wouldn't even know about it until they were gone.
We should all be on our knees thanking God for the Schindlers and asking him to protect Terri!