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I can't believe this decision... My mind and body have gone numb. I have tried so hard to believe that there was true justice in this country, but no more. This is more than a travesty.

As hard as it is to say, my FReeper FRiends, I think we've reached the end of the line. I realize there is the Atlanta appeal, and then maybe even the Supreme Court, but my gut feeling tells me that they, too, are going to fail Terri.

We've all tried doing everything we can possibly could... faxing, emailing, phoning---apparently we live in a country of a CORRUPT judicial system. How ironic... Scott Peterson is getting 3 meals a day and will live for at least another 20 years, and poor Terri is starving to death... for NO REASON. I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW I COULD SPIT NICKELS! THIS IS SO UNFAIR!!

I don't know what else we can do, and if you can tell me, please do! But in the meantime, I am just going to pray for Terri to have as peaceful a passing as possible. I was at my dad's bedside when he passed (yes, we had to decide to remove him from life support), and thankfully, he did not suffer... he had a morphine drip, and passed within 10 minutes after removing the life support. He had a very peaceful death, and I pray the same for our dear Terri. The only "positive" thing for Terri is that she will soon be "home" again, with our Lord...

I pray that the next court ruling will be in the Schindler's favor, but I am not feeling very good about that prospect.

I'm sorry for being so negative this morning, but I've lost all hope and faith in humanity, and I need to figure out what to do about it. I'm an optimist by nature, or USED to be; I don't think I'll ever feel that way again.

Tears and prayers for Terri... and prayers to God for a miracle!

This is indeed a very black day for us. As I have stated before, the angels are weeping from heaven. Not only am I sadden by the starvation of a human being simply because she is handicap but also for the many posters that feel this is duly right. Does having loving parents and family that want to take care of her mean anything to anyone anymore? Are we now heading into a society where we must hide our loves ones in the basement so they can not be put to death. My God, we send our young to battle to bring freedom to strangers and yet we can not save one handicap woman from being starved to death? Baby Boomers, we have reaped what we sow. May God have mercy on all of us.

As hard as it is to say, my FReeper FRiends, I think we've reached the end of the line. I realize there is the Atlanta appeal, and then maybe even the Supreme Court, but my gut feeling tells me that they, too, are going to fail Terri.
We've all tried doing everything we can possibly could... faxing, emailing, phoning . . . .

You're absolutely right. I have been beside myself about this case for the past two weeks, but I have to be realistic at this point. Terri is going to die soon and perhaps it's God's will that she does. That doesn't mean that her life was worthless and her death has no meaning or purpose. Quite the contrary. Her plight has raised awareness to what Rush yesterday called the "culture of death" taking hold of this country, and which we now have the responsibility of reversing through the democratic process and by pushing our representatives even further to act on behalf of the President's judicial nominees. More importantly, as a personal matter, Terri's life has awakened in me a strong belief in the sanctity of life. That's Terri's legacy to me, and it is a legacy that will continue on after her passing in everyone whom she has touched. What a beautiful gift that is.

I am going to continue to pray today friends...But it's sad.

It tells us a few key things:

1) people have been trained across America to think that the brain damage equals death. And therefore, letting the body go is a good thing.

2) that the laws in too states don't protect people unless they have a living will - in other words, there's no presumption for life.

3) severely handicapped people are at risk in our society.

Everything MS did was legal as were the rulings he received, according to multiple judicial reviews. This means that Florida has law that can be manipulated this way.

Bad law = bad justice.

Bad legal assumptions by the lawyers = bad justice.

Between the way the law is written and the judicial activism, we get situations like Terri's, God bless her.

Terri gave us a face to what was happening.

WE have to hold that face to our hearts and in our memories, and in our prayers. It should shape the choices we make and the actions we take for the rest of our lives.