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I understand where those who have lost loved ones are coming from. I posted this on another thread regarding this issue.

My husband and I were given the option to abort our daughter because she was in the last stages of heart failure in utero. We declined. We were again approached shortly after her birth (she was on a high frequency ventilator at the time, in kidney failure) we declined. 3 Days later she was on a normal ventilator and producing her own urine. Her heart was still failing, but she was critically stable. We were given the option again to either terminate her life, or have her listed for transplant. We opted for transplant. Emma waited for 4 months on life support, fed by a machine, for her new heart. SHe is now fed by pump 21.5 hours a day, without which she would die.

IRONICALLY, if i were to stop feeding her, I would go to prison, and I would be deemed the most horrible mother because I abused my handicapped child. In this case, he is being portrayed (tho poorly) as the poster husband for mercy killing.

I think the difference in this case is that my husband and I could not give up until we tried everything. I could not bury my daughter knowing that I hadnt given her every opportunity to live. Michael decided to kill Terri long before he signed those DRP.

Terri may never recover from her current state, we will never know, because she was never given the opportunity. My daughter was given a death sentence before she was ever given the opportunity to live by doctors who swore she would never be more than a shell of child, and would die before her first birthday, she is now a normal 2 year old, who just cant eat by mouth, nothing else sustains her life, but her feeding tube. (kinda like Terri)

This is no longer only Terris Fight... The fight for Terri has become every parent of a disabled childs platform to protect the future right of life for their children.

I will help in anyway that I can.

Heather
www.Emmas2Hearts.com