Something is rotten, and it's not in Denmark. I plan to contact Tom DeLay's office and demand they impeach Greer for contempt of Congress and for the deplorable way in which he has deprived Terri of her Constitutional rights.
Read Felo's and Greer's lips. This is the groundbreaking case they needed. Now a dangerous precedent is set. The case will be cited in order to make more of the same rulings where someone is inconvenient to someone else. If Terri had been totally comatose, hooked up to every kind of artificial life support imaginable for all that time, and Mikey had been the tragic, doting husband without the conflict of interest presented by a whole new family, it would have been another matter altogether to pull the plugs on an unconscious and irreversibly truly comatose person with a machine breathing for them after a reasonable time. This was not true of Terri!
Terri was, even to the eye of the casual observer, not unconscious. People who have come back from diagnosed PVS conditions tell of knowing everything, of being hungry or in pain and not being able to vocalize or gesture about it. The only blessing I can see out of all of this is that Terri is out of the clutches of that man! The fact that he will have her ashes and is reported to be planning to not even allow her family to know where she will be buried or to visit the grave is unfathomable. I feel pretty confident that Felos suggested that so that Terri's grave would not become a rallying point for "right to life" Christian fundamentalists.
Of course, casual observers haven't been taught to ignore all efforts to communicate as "reflex".