We are there already. The deathists do not really argue that Terri has an equivalent of a living will. Her remark to her husband that vaguely expressed a wish to die if disabled is only significant to the blind judge, to pull a veneer of legality over the killing. The arguing that is being done is all about Terri's quality of life. The same arguments will be applied to people who never had a chance to express anything, -- the handicapped from birth and the unborn.
Exactly. It does not matter what she said. This is all about the coming utilitarian society.
I've also wondered how this will someday apply to murder victims in the inner city ghettoes....
"Well, her life sucked out there in the ghetto so surely she would have rather been dead anyway..... so, it's not really a murder, it's a mercy killing. No investigation. No judgement or jail for the mercy-killer."