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Since when should anyone have to pass a "test" to determine whether they deserve to live?

No one should. I did not mean it to sound that way.

My point was that they, her parents and husband, seem to have legitimate positions.

This is or should be about what Terri wants or wanted.

With that established then the question remains whether or not a feeding tube is considered artificial life support.

I guess that is why this has dragged on for 15 years. These questions are not easily answered.

My point was that they, her parents and husband, seem to have legitimate positions.

You've been on several different threads for awhile now. I've given you info and links and so have others. You start posting the same things everytime. You always get around to, "I bet she wants to commit suicide and doesn't want to live like that". Are you going there again?

No, there are no easy answers, but people don't have a "right to die" if they did not leave written instructions and the courts side with a husband who gives hearsay testimony.

It did sound that way (like she had to pass some test in order to be considered worthy to continue living), but I accept that was not your intention.

Terri's religious head, the pope, says a feeding tube is not artificial life support. I'm not sure how I think about that across the board. I am not real keen on feeding tubes if they prolong suffering, but nutrition is not the same as a ventilator, etc. It has been pointed out countless times that people get arrested for starving their animals.

I'm not convinced what Terri wanted one way or another. Because we do not know for sure what she wanted (I don't give any credence to anything her husband or lawyer say), I believe we must do everything possible until she dies a natural death. That's the key for me. Natural death. People on feeding tubes die natural deaths all the time.

15 years is a long time, but in the beginning of the ordeal, her husband went to court so he could get money so she could live and when the going got rough and she didn't die to suit him, he suddenly comes up with the story that Terri wanted to die. That should have come out at the trial.

Michael Shiavo seems driven by a vendetta against Terri's parents. He loathes them and is going beyond the bounds of reason to punish them by intending to cremate her remains and send them back to Pennsylvania. That is bizarre any way you want to look at it.

Terri is Catholic, and Catholics are not supposed to be cremated without sufficient cause. Her religious rights are not being respected, and she is being denied communion because of legal nonsense.