[The Old Hoosier]

It's a bit sketchy for him to claim to care about Terri's wishes, when there's no real way of knowing them, absent any living will or other document. And that footage of her reacting to people around her is just damning.

If they let a third party make the decision to starve her to death, then grandpa had better be careful when he starts getting a bit out of it.

That's where we're headed: the mentally handicapped will be not allowed to die, but rather deliberately killed even though they have no terminal medical condition of any kind--as in Terri's case.

[tuckrdout]

Yep. They called it "mercy killing" in Germany.

[workerbee]

when there's no real way of knowing them, absent any living will or other document.

This is what I just don't understand. How can a person's food and hydration be suspended absent these things? How can a person be literally starved and dehydrated to death based on nothing but the word of another person? We're not talking about "extraordinary" measures here. I mean, look at pictures of these people before all this -- they were a young good-looking couple. There's no way you can tell me these 20-something beautiful people sat around telling each other "don't feed me if I become incapacitated."

[isatoi]

This just really blows my mind!!!!!!Think about this like a normal human in a normal situation!!!! Most of us are not well versed in these sorts of situations nor are we well rounded in the legallites of all this, but!!!!! We ARE humans!!!!!!!!!!! If it were YOU or a loved one, what would you do? If,in fact ,you loved someone, like a MOTHER would,WHAT WOULD YOU DO????? A Mother has an undeniable LOVE for a child, One that never siezes!!!Just think about it!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!

[FITZ]

I'm sure many of us have made statements when we're young and healthy that we couldn't imagine living in a wheel chair or we'd hate to live in a nursing home ---- OR someone might imagine remembering us saying something to that effect ---- but to trust everything to one man's memory of what someone might have said once over 15 years ago? People forget, and memories aren't always reliable.