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I for one would want my feeding tube yanked if I were in Terrri's condition...

Yanked? Or not put in in the first place? If Terri didn't want a feeding tube and had told her husband so, why did he wait so long to request the removal?

Pro-Terri people, wait, please. Give IJR a chance to reply first.

"If Terri didn't want a feeding tube and had told her husband so, why did he wait so long to request the removal?"

I'm assuming that at point he (and Terri's Doctors) had hope of a recovery. After a reasonable amount of time (like 15 years) one must re-evaluate. I'm not anti-Terri by any means, and I agree there are a lot suspicious circumstances surrounding all this. It's very sad all the way around, if she is brain-dead (as many say she is) then it will not be hurting her at all to keep her around, if she is not maybe she has some quality of life (the famous video.) In either case I would think Michael would turn her over to her parents. If however she is not brai-dead and has a tormented sense of life I think she should be allowed to move one.

What I really don't want is the gov't tell me and mine what medical decisions are best for us.

Advanced Directive - if you don't have one you better get one

If Terri didn't want a feeding tube and had told her husband so, why did he wait so long to request the removal?

Because until 1999 it would have been illegal to starve/dehydrate someone to death. Of course, it's perfectly believable that a wife would tell her husband "Oh, and by the way, if and when the legislature ever allows the withdrawal of feeding tubes from disabled people, I want you to do that too."