[Republic]

And since MS has remember only recently, within the last few years that Terri did not want artifical means used to keep her alive.... hmmmm on that one.....don't you find it INTERESTING that she has been living in hell and managed to survive for so long--no comforts, no therapy, no stimulation, no TV, no music, no gifts, no flowers and no outings into the sunshine...by golly.....this girl has gone thru a living hell and it is a WONDER that she has hung on...much to the detriment of MS's hopes and dreams.

If she WAS PVS---why all the fuss the first three years while MS was trying to get rehabilitation money?

[daylate-dollarshort]

I think you will find that the Court found by "clear and convincing evidence", a higher standard than "by the preponderence of the evidence" standard, that Terri would not want to be sustained indefinately with no hope for recovery.

The Court of Appeal addressed this issue in Schiavo I:

"In the final analysis, the difficule question that faced the trial court was whether Theresa Marie Schlindler Schiavo, not after a few weeks of coma, but after ten years in a presistent vegetive state that has robbed her of most of her cerebrum and all but the most instinctive of neurological functions, with no hope of a medical cure, but with sufficient money and strength of body to live indefinately, would choose to continue the constant nursing care and the supporting tubes in hopes that a miracle would somehow recreate her missing brain tissue, or whether she would wish to permit a natural death process to take its course and for her family members and loved ones to be free to continue their lives. After due consideration, we conclude that the trial judge had clear and convincing evidence to answer this question as he did."