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177 - Surely you jest?

Have you not seen/read the actual document stating her injuries were consistant with strangulation?

Have you not read that her brain was deprived of oxygen for five minutes?

How long do you think it takes to strangle someone to death?

Does not strangluation deprive oxygen to a person?

IF, let me repeat, IF the husband did indeed try to strangle Terri (Remember they had a fight that evening.), and doctors examining her that night stated she could be rehabilitated to some extent (and therefore may be able to testify to that), and IF that were the case, and you found a lawyer who claims he can "hear" comatose patients when he screams into their face, "DO YOU WANT TO DIE? DO YOU WANT TO DIE?" then claim they say "yes" - and that same lawyer was hired several years after Terri entered the hospital, - and it was only then that the husband "suddenly remembers" Terri said she didn't want to live that way - would you the question his motives?

Overall, just 4 things stick out at me in this case.

1. MS sought and Terri was awarded money for rehabilitation. Soon after that, he switched gears and remembered her "wishes" against living in her condition, and proceeded to seek her demise despite no living will. He does NOT dispute this set of facts.
2. Terri did not receive therapy for some 10 years, but was subjected to neglect. MS does not dispute this fact, that she received no therapy.
3. MS used some (a lot) of Terri's medical funds to pay a lawyer to seek her death. He doesn't dispute that either.
And the Schindlers do not have the same access to that money to pay attorneys, so they don't have as effective representation, and neither does Terri---and that's obvious.
4. Terri has no legal guardian ad litem to safeguard her rights and interests against possible abuses by her legal guardian husband. He doesn't dispute that fact.

All the rest of it is talk, speculation, sentiment, open to dispute. We won't get any traction, or we won't get enough, on anything but the obvious and undisputed facts.
Those of us who wish to, and can, have any effect on the legal process should concentrate on alerting the world to the obvious, undisputed facts. Those who can't---by all means pray and go on crying in outrage, but know that the law is deaf as well as blind, and today the law is supreme.