Terri's parents hate Michael more than they love their daughter and therein lies the dilemma.
I don't know if that's true or not.
I do not understand them, I'll admit. I was taught that hatred and anger at someone who harmed you would certainly end up destroying the hater.
I could never live like that.
"Hate Michael" is the driving force behind almost all of the Terri supporters.
Just examine the posts on the Terri threads here at Free Republic. Sooner or later, the poster will let slip that, "and yeah, Michael is a monster/jerk/adulterer or that he's greedy/unfeeling/evil."
Totally lost in all the rhetoric are Terri's wishes, expressed to Michael, Michael's brother, and to her best friend, Joan that she not live this way.
If her supporters lose that argument, then they switch to Plan B, "She's not really in a PVS", as documented by attention-seeking "doctors" who haven't even examined her.
Plan C, of course, is "How can we allow her to starve to death?", although they'd admit (if pressed) that if she had placed her wishes in writing, they'd allow just that.
Hypocrisy and hatred reign on these threads.