BTW, my offer to discuss Scientology either by FReepmail or in an open forum remains open, should you ever have any interest in this.
I would think she'd simply say 'no' and be done with it instead of dancing around the question for such a long time.
The scientology angle could explain a lot about this case.
It's hard to explain otherwise why a man and his backers would work so hard to kill a person they claim is an unfeeling vegetable and at the same time, illogically claim it's 'cruel' to keep a 'thing' that 'cannot feel' alive. How can one be cruel to something that cannot feel the difference between humane treatment and inhumane treatment? They can't admit she can respond to pain without also conceding she can experience pleasure, love and joy, and any effort to murder her is the only sure way to deny her these experiences.
If she's beyond caring about anything, what difference does it make if she lives or dies to Michael Schiavo, except to fufill his own pointless vanity at the expense of Terri and her family? His backers want us to accept the idea that Michael is doing it all because he loves her and 'she wanted to die' when by their own arguments she can't want anything now and hasn't since her collapse. If she is a vegetable then she's not capable of wanting anything and there is no point in fanatically planning and pushing for her death when it would be more gracious and honorable to let the parents take a shot at helping her so they, too can have closure.
It takes a fanatic to deny a family -however much he might dislike them for disagreeing with him- their last chance with their daughter when the only thing at stake, at least according to him, is a vague past desire on the part of a person who supposedly no longer has desires.
But thinking back on the previous history of the scientology crowd, and reflecting upon what's on this thread about their view of disabled people as some kind of threat to the living, it makes sense that they fear disabled people enough to go to extremes. It's as if they are afraid their souls might accidently slip into a disabled person's body and get stuck there.
I wish I had read more on scientology- I hadn't realized just how much influence it has. Thanks for sharing.