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In 1979 my father suffered a stroke on the heart lung machine during his second heart bypass operation. It was a terrible thing to happen but it did, sh*t happens. It was his time. He wound up in the same state that Terri is now. He spent the next 4 months as a veritable zombie, unable to feed himself, unable to void by himself, unable to do anything for himself but basically stare into space. It sucked.

My Mom realized the futility of this and asked for his feeding tube to be removed. He slipped away peacefully about 2 weeks later. I have lived through this fu**king nightmare personally. Anyone that thinks that Terri is magically going to get better and one day just wake up and get out of bed is a fool. She is not, and all her physicians agree. Terri will be much better off in a week or two when she too slips away. And so will her family. It was tough as hell on us but eventually you come to grips with the fact that it was the right thing to do.

I have worked ICU's. I have SEEN miracles. I used to believe strongly in favor of "mercy killing" (One hell of an oxymoron if there even was one.)

Events I can only describe as the hand of GOD have taken away a very dark veil from my eyes.

Much as I hate to hear of the loss of your father, how do you know he passed peacefully? How do we presume to know what someone is thinking/felling especially while in such a state.