I doubt this is so, but in any case, why do you think she stopped walking and eating orally (it in fact she was able to do so)?
As to the rest of your comments and many similar ones here), I have never tried to defend her husband nor any of his actions - they are irrelivant to me. What is relevant is that IMO no one should be forced to continue living artifically when in Terri's condition - when they have expressed in the past that they would not want to do so.
Accoring to your ending rationale (God finishing waht he starts), everything that happens then is God' will - including Terri's husband actions. Ergo, if they remove her feeding tube and she dies, then according to you that would be God's will. why do you want to interfer?
Terri was able to swallow. She was able to rally receive food. I apologize, I did not mean to imply that SHE walked but rather that her family took her out on walks with them.
Obviously, you know very little of how nursing homes and long term care facilities operate?? Feeding tubes are often, sadly, placed in patients for convenience of nursing staff. The shorthandedness of help is one reason. There is a high turnover rate among CNS so it is reasonable that this was the reason that Terri had this tube inserted. Also, could be that her husband ordered this.
As to the rest of your comments and many similar ones here), I have never tried to defend her husband nor any of his actions - they are irrelivant to me. What is relevant is that IMO no one should be forced to continue living artifically when in Terri's condition - when they have expressed in the past that they would not want to do so.
No one should be forced to die either and NO ONE should be starved or dehydrated to death. I challenge you, an assumably healthy male, to go without liquid and nutrition for only a couple of days. Until you do, you cannot justify this method of death. I have stated many times that I would not want to live if I had to be on life support. Unfortunately, I did not realize that life support also included food. I do not wish to be on a ventilator BUT I do not wish to be starved to death REGARDLESS of my mental capacity.
Terri left nothing stating her desires. It is all hearsay. Terri did NOT object to her father putting his mother, her grandmother on a ventilator. As a matter of fact, Terri was very diligent about visiting and caring for her grandmother in this state while the grandmother was in a nursing facility. THIS, my friend, would have been the oportune time for Terri to make her wishes known to her family. She did not. Yet, her husband says that when HIS grandmother was in the same condition ( what are the odds of that? )that she stated "no tubes for me". This decision is based on he said she said testimony. Because there is NO clear indication of what Terri DID want, she should be aloowed to live, receive the therapy necessary to her recovery, albeit limited, and to ask HER. As it has been stated here multiple times, when in doubt err on the side of life.
Accoring to your ending rationale (God finishing waht he starts), everything that happens then is God' will - including Terri's husband actions. Ergo, if they remove her feeding tube and she dies, then according to you that would be God's will. why do you want to interfer?
If you are a believer in the bible you will note that it says, "He who has begin a good work in you is FAITHFUL to complete it". God does not do anything half way. He completes what He starts. I would say that even includes taking home one of His children. Could it be that Terri's collapse was not something that He designed? That it was at another's hands? Maybe her own, IF she was suffering from an eating disorder? You are also cognizant that there is evil on this earth as well and that man can choose to do evil rather than God's will. He allows man to choose.