[TheAngryClam]

However, most of the shrill "Save Terri" types here refuse to understand what her condition means, and think there's still a "there" there.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well maybe angry clams aren't there either.

[MarMema]

I beg your pardon. I am quite sure that I am far more knowledgeable about these things than you.

Therefore, most of the "Kill Terri" types here refuse to understand what her condition means. That seems to include you.

[The Old Hoosier]

To pin a label on her condition, and say, "ha, it means this, that and that, so we should starve her to death," is to ignore the individual facts of the case. And the television footage on Fox News. This case really comes down to whether third parties can decide to terminate the lives of severely retarted people.

Moreover, is it ever right to starve someone to death under any circumstances? I can understand letting someone die when some truly extraordinary means could save them, but to make it a crime to feed or hydrate someone?

[GodBlessUSA]

HUH? Do not understand the point of that post. Except that you are insulting people.


Did you read the earlier article of Doctor's who have the opinion that she may not be in a vegetative state? Why not let one or more doctors independent of the case examine and evaluate the situation before she is starved to death? The only care she has had is from her husband and his choices. What would it hurt to either confirm or deny the diagnosis? What proof do you have that she has no capability of improvement? What care has she had in the past 13 years to validate this diagnosis?

[litany_of_lies]

There MAY stil be a "there there," we just don't know, and Mikey won't let us find out.

If we follow the author's advice, anyone who wants to off a borderline PVS person just needs to stall for 3-6 months, say it's too late for therapy to do any good anyway, and get permission to do the deed.

I sense that the medical community and their bean-counting friends in the government and at the HMOs is beginning to organize against Terri and those in similar cases. If the Schindlers get hold of her and Terri recovers coherence, it will set their entire "right to die" and "futile care" agenda on its ear. This is beginning to look like the MOAB (Mother of All Battles) for the pro-life movement.

(I'm a recovering bean-counter, so I understand what happens when the bean-counting mentality takes over common sense and humanity)