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"I always wanted her to live, but what is living?"

What if people had decided that you would never become healthy and vital and wouldn't have bothered to save you?

Nobody knows what Terri would have wanted, but if she may show awareness and her parents want to have her with them and take care of her, why should one allow her husband, who may have caused her condition, have the right to pull the plug, just by claiming, without any evidence, that Terri wouldn't want to live like this.

If her parents were her guardians, they would just quietly take care of her. This is NOT a right to live or a "right to die" issue, because we have NO evidence that Terri wanted to die. It's really the issue of a greedy husband, who may have murdered Terri, wanting her to die, to make sure she wouldn't get well, and reveal his crime.

What reasonable person wouldn't just step aside? Terri's parents offered that he can keep the money, he should just let them take care of Terri. Apparently someone offered him $10M and recently $1M, to just step aside, and he won't.

He certainly is NOT devoted to Terri, he's had a girlfriend and some children from this girlfried.

There are only two reasons: he is just so incredibly evil, as to defy imagination or that he did indeed try to kill her, which is how she ended up in this condition, and he doesn't want to take any chances of her recovering any of her faculties and let the world know, how he tried to kill her in the first place.

If you allow your freedom to be taken away, you will go down the road that the US was never meant to go on. This isn't about one person's right, this is the control the government has over you.

If you tell your spouse that you do not want certain things done to you, than it is your responsibility to ensure that does not happen. Everybody judges easily, but when you are young, you don't actually think of death, thus you talk about it to your spouse only. The legal documents cost too much and there is too much hassle with obtaining them.

When you allow somebody else than the person you want to decide for you, than pretty soon the government decides who lives and dies. It is a terrible burden, but the picture must be seen on the whole.

A brain dead person will not have quality of life, never mind any monetary gains or burdens, life is only until the sole is in us. The sole has left her a long time ago. It is just a vessel maintained by artificial means.

The husband is an honorable man, doing what he promised to save her from, the parents are making her body suffer, let the sole rest. This isn't about life, this is about a families inability to make peace with the circumstances. Medically there is little difference between sustaining life with a breathing machine, a heart machine or a feeding tube, they are all aimed at sustaining the existence of the body by artificial means. 90% of persons who are able to communicate when on such machines will communicate that they do not want to be like this and it is painful to exist like this. They suffer, just because somebody else can not coop with reality.