I disagree. Your way would continue to doom her to being chained to a hospital bed, receiving nourishment through a tube. "But she would still be ALIVE"! Well, to some of us, "life" is defined as how we interact with our environment, our experiences, the people we interact with, and our simple pleasures (and even pain), and "life" in a hospital bed like some sort of zombie with no hope of recovery is not "life" at all.
Dehumanization is the trend.
How "human" is it to sentence somebody to some sort of twilight zombie existence, forever dependent on some $12 an hour nurse carrying your next meal in a bag and thinking about that hot date she's going to have after she finishes feeding the "Q" in Room 293?
Where the trend is leading seems to be toward organ "donation".
There is no such "trend" on this side of the keyboard, thanks. And it is insulting that you would think that I would support harvesting people's organs UNLESS THEY AGREED TO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
And if you spent the time I do reading the medical journals, especially the letters, you would see this as clearly as I do.
I don't care if you're Michael DeBakey or Hippocrates himself, you still have no right to play God with other people's lives.
Again, you are the one making the statements about what life is, not me. You seem to be the one wanting to play God.
I have only mentioned Terri's choices.
But not to worry. you are in good company. Very soon people like Terri and those kids in the ICU will automatically be assumed dead, as they will have redefined death to include brain-damage and PVS.