"Keep talking, I am seeing where you are coming from...."
I'm coming from North Carolina, in a house where these things are discussed. I have no idea what was discussed in Florida. My point is, if I make my desires clear now, nobody will be arguing about me after I've lost the ability to participate in the debate.
As I said before, good for you. Don't make those choices for others that have not stated so.
"My point is, if I make my desires clear now, nobody will be arguing about me after I've lost the ability to participate in the debate."
IF you make your desires clear. And even then, nobody would deny your moral right to refuse extraordinary and burdensome medical treatments. But food and water?
Regardless, the evidence showing that Terri made her desires clear is extremely weak. Her husband just happened to "remember" several years later, after promising under oath to take care of Terri for the rest of his life and then winning a million dollar malpractice award, that Terri casually mentioned to him on one occasion "no tubes for me".
She left no written instructions, and told nobody else of her desires. In fact, there is good reason to believe from what she told others that she held the exact opposite view on the subject.
And now, on the flimsiest of evidence, the state of Florida is ready to starve and dehydrate her to death for the third time, two previous attempts having been mercifully stopped. It's because Terri has temporarily lost the ability to "participate in the debate" that makes it imperative to argue for her, and plead for her inalienable right to live and to receive food and water, not to mention the court-ordered therapy that has been so cruelly denied her.
This case is much bigger than a husband's alleged desire to fulfill his wife's wishes.
That fact that George Felos is the husband's attorney is no coincidence, as he is a major proponent of euthanasia. This is merely his "test case", to set precedent for the legal killing of our disabled and elderly citizens.
The husband has already moved on with his life, as if Terri is already dead. He has lived for several years now with a girlfriend, fathering two children. He's merely the convenient plaintiff in this sordid legal process, to play the part of the loving husband. He's a willing accomplice in this awful drama, to be sure, but there are larger and more sinister players in the shadows cheering him on.
The forces arrayed against Terri will not rest until she is dead, or they are stopped.