Adding to the ignorance about the facts of Terri's condition and treatment, we have a new ignorance spreading through the land regarding "living wills," more accurately known as advance directives. They may end up being an exercise in futility anyway.
When you're in relatively good health, what do you know about how you want to die? Not much. Who will determine the point at which your advance directive takes effect? Who will determine that moment of incapacitation when you are no longer able to make decisions for yourselves? Hmmm? There are more variables than the general public realizes. Many more. If you choose no intubation whatsoever, do you know you are choosing to dehydrate as well as starve to death?
You could be denying yourselves measures that would temporarily support your life, and later be able to recover. Will there now be a rush for people to condemn themselves to death?
Living wills = the new ignorance.
You mean death wills don't you.....